Features and Benefits

Features

Web based

Clients request analyses, track and query results in the lab's web portal

NB. Not Web enabled. Built in modern framework Plone

Dashboard

Security  

Role based security trusted by the FBI and CIA

Encryption. LDAP friendly

Instrument Interfaces

LIMS · Health care and Veterinary. Bidirectional

Instrument Calibration and Maintenance

Worksheets exports, auto results imports

Quality Control

Method, Analysis and Instrument integrity

Reference Analyses and Control charts. Alerts, corrective action workflow

Product Specifications, Detection limits

Full Audit trail

 All objects, Samples and Setup items

COA

Digitally signed Single and Multi Sample  results reports by email, PDF, CSV. SMS

Provisional COAs and re-issues

ERP Interface

RESTful API for up and downstream system integration

Sample Storage

Sample, Aliquot management

Batching, Bulk Imports, Chain of Custody

 New: Aliquots and improved Partitioning

Prioritisation, Rejection workflow, Storage

Billing & Management

Invoices, prints and exports

Price lists, per Analysis or Panel. Discounting

Management and efficiency reports

Automation

Configurable Calculations, Unit Conversion, Results after drying and as received

Editable Templates for Analysis Profiles, Worksheets and Reference Specifications

Benefits

Highly robust and secure - benefiting from the speed, reliability and power of Linux

Low Cost of Ownership

Full ownership. Installed program code and customisations belongs to the lab, free to dissect, adapt and share

No license fees, vendor lock-in or on-site IT skills
Unlimited users, unlimited servers
Low benchtop hardware requirement

Improved Turnaround

TAT is sliced by 2/3rds moving from spreadsheets to web based LIMS, bar coding and instrument interfacing

Accurate

Eliminate human error

Flexible

Configure to fit

Customisation

The code is yours 

Ease of use 

High client and staff satisfaction

No desktop disruption. Distributed multilingual browser access

Reduced administration

Data at your finger tips. Easy Accreditation

Document Management

Full document management and version control for SOPs, Methods, Accreditation and marketing material

Lab Web Portal

Easy browser based editing of training material, SOPs, promotions, news and events

Bika Branches

Apart from generic Bika LIMS, configurations and customisations in specialised branches 

Inherits Bika LIMS functionality and adds Patients, Cases, Doctors, Clinics. Demo 

Open Source LIMS customised and configured for laboratories in Environmental Management. Demo 

Fulfils requirements for labs handling regulated material, Client licensing, State Limits ,Sample chain of custody, COA etc. Demo

CMS Framework. 

Bika is built in unrivalled enterprise content management system Plone, and benefits from its

• Role based security
• Flexible workflow engine
• Audit trails
• Object version control
• Live search
• Integrated alerts
• Document Management
• Clean design by usability experts
• Easy browser base site editing
• Easy translation and localisation
• Free Add-ons

They use Plone

Trusted by commercial and scientific organisations, governments and their security. Amnesty International, NASA, Fermilab,groups Yale, Harvard, the New Zealand Treasury, Spanish Sports Council, Brazilian government, CIA, FBI 

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