Starlims Technologies has established a new unit focused on providing strategic informatics consulting services to Starlims customers
Starlims has acquired the assets of Laboratory Expertise Center (LEC), a US-based consultancy specialising in Lims and laboratory informatics.
LEC founder and president Randy Hice, a laboratory informatics authority with 24 years of consultancy expertise, will head the new unit.
"Our web-based Lims are ideal for multi-site and multinational implementations, projects that also require specialised planning and implementation expertise.
"Drawing on the assets of LEC, we will help customers standardise and harmonise laboratory processes across disparate disciplines, labs, and multinational sites.
"Starlims will also help customers channel their resources into the Lims functions that are most critical to their business," said Starlims CEO Itschak Friedman.
"We are delighted to be able to offer these services that have long been considered among the most professional in the industry to our expanding customer base - which ranges from first-time adopters of Lims technology to companies that are seeking to replace their legacy systems.
"The creation of the new unit, and the acquisition of LEC assets, reflect our commitment not only to expansion into new markets and regions - but also to continuous enhancements in our service infrastructure," added Friedman.
"As of today, the only major vendor who is fully invested in an interoperable web-based enterprise Lims is Starlims.
"We believe these capabilities are necessary for large distributed implementations, a growing piece of the market - and LEC's consulting services strength lies precisely in such complex projects," said Randy Hice.
"Many companies are interested in consolidating processes and resources, often following mergers and acquisitions of sites with dissimilar processes, compliance requirements and IT infrastructures.
"What holds them back from creating a harmonised informatics environment is often lack of confidence that available applications will meet their needs, or uncertainty about the methodology to define a workable harmonization strategy.
"Today, Starlims not only addresses the application dilemma, but it also brings proven techniques for workflow analysis that serve as the foundation for harmonisation."
