Features · Benefits

Features

Instrument Interfaces

Instrument Calibration and Maintenance

Worksheets exports, auto results imports

Web based tracking

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

Quality Control

Method, Analysis and Instrument integrity

Reference Analyses and Control charts. Alerts, corrective action workflow

Product Specifications, Detection limits

Audit trails

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 management

Batching, Bulk Imports, Chain of Custody

Partitioning, Prioritisation, Rejection workflow, Storage

Billing & Management

Invoices prints and exports

Price lists, per Analysis or Panel. Discounting

Management and efficiency reports

 Security

Role based security trusted by the FBI and CIA

Any of Clients, Samplers, Lab clerks, Analysts, Verifiers, Managers and Regulatory Inspectors

Departmental segregation. LDAP

Automation

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

Editable Templates for

• Analysis Profiles
• Analysis Requests
• Worksheets,
• Reference Specifications,
• Sampling Rounds and Hygiene Surveys

Benefits

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

ISO 17025 ready

Achieve accreditation and audit goals with ease

Improved Turnaround

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

Accurate

Eliminate human error

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

Low Cost of Ownership

No license fees, vendor lock-in or on-site IT skills

Unlimited users

Low hardware requirement

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

 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

Bika Branches

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

Inherits Bika LIMS ISO 17025 functionality and adds Patients, Cases, Doctors, Clinics eto CLIA standard. 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

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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