Background
Bika 1,2 and 3, from 2002 to 2017, established the foundation Senaite rests on. Senaite 1's initial design analysis went under the Bika 4 moniker, with an emphasis on performance and maintainability
After going global and attracting a wider group of participants, post 2015 Bika LIMS suffered from a nagging naming issue: the project and Cape Town founding company were both using Bika in their titles, unfair to other contributors Naralabs followed by Riding Bytes
As a result Bika 4 manifested under new title Senaite in 2018, sixteen years after the project's initial inception
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Today
Bika Lab Systems contributes her code to Senaite, but the bulk is coming from Europe nowadays, some of the best, and via strict release management and quality control procedures
The code has been transformed, and project goals achieved with aplomb, the original Bika code at its heart
With so much invested, the Bika brand is maintained independently from Cape Town, providing add-ons to extend the generic LIMS Senaite base with functions outside its lean performance driven scope
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Bika Senaite differentiation
Apart form the independent Bika add-ons, there are often requirements in distinctly differentiated lab disciplines collected in Bika branches, e.g Bika Cannabis vs Bika Covid
Fine tuned over years, Bika also distributes these complete setup configurations for different LIMS branches
In the spirit of Ubuntu, Bika strives for a holistic delivery model. We value honesty as in 'Tell it as it is' translated from isiZulu 'to report'
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