TargetWatch SDMS is a web-based scientific data management system that enables research organisations to capture, track, and share scientific research data in a secure centralised data warehouse
Private and public organisations around the globe are investing heavily in scientific research.
This high level of investment places an onus on research organisations to protect the valuable intellectual property that is generated.
Failure to put proper mechanisms in place can result in failure to attract new funding.
The volume and diversity of scientific data available to researchers has increased dramatically over the past two decade.
This change is fuelled by the emergence of advances tools and techniques for accessing and analysing large volumes of scientific data.
The adoption of the world wide web has provided researchers with instant access to global scientific knowledge bases.
Researchers face an enormous challenge to pinpoint and capture data relevant to their research.
The Amartus TargetWatch SDMS is an enterprise data management platform designed for organisations to provide research teams with a means to access and track large amounts of diverse scientific data.
TargetWatch combines comprehensive data management capabilities for local data (eg experimental data, SOPs, protocols, presentations, papers, write-ups etc) with access and tracking for key public and private data-sources used on a daily basis by research scientists.
The result is a secure web accessible research portal that grows with organisational needs.
Those who adopt TargetWatch remove the risk of loosing data and free valuable research time to concentrate on core activities, says the company.
TargetWatch SDMS provides a standard mechanism to capture documents and data-files of any type, collected during a research project.
Built-in document workflow supports automated on-line review, approval and publication of key documents avoiding unnecessary paper shuffle.
TargetWatch SDMS also provides a framework designed to streamline access across multiple data-sources used in research.
With minimal customisation a single point of access to all data used in research can be provided.
These data sources can be relational databases, web services, document stores or any other source of electronic data.
Data-sources supported in this way inherit a host of features including the ability to save searches and annotate important results as well as the ability to automatically run searches at regular intervals alerting users to new information as it becomes available.
The TargetWatch SDMS 2.0 release sees the addition of new features for text-mining, reporting and archiving as well as enhancement of existing security and user interface features.
The new text-mining feature takes advantage of the underlying Oracle 10g databases support allowing users to search the entire content of their projects.
Reporting allows users to query and generate reports in a variety of standard formats including PDF, CSV, XML, XLS and HTML.
Archiving and retention provides necessary maintenance support allowing predefined retention periods to be set for data files and providing a mechanism to archive files with expired retention periods.
"The latest release of our TargetWatch SDMS focuses on providing scientist with better insight into their data" says Michael Kearns, CEO.
"The new text mining, reporting and archiving features are key to providing and maintaining an up to date and accessible knowledge base".
TargetWatch is built specifically around an organisation's needs and can be customised for each research organisation.
Amartus continues to work with customers to identify and expand the extensive list of features available in TargetWatch.
