Agilent Technologies has announced that its Openlab Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system now supports the archiving of data generated by Dionex's Chromeleon 6.8 chromatography software.
Linda Doherty, marketing manager, software and laboratory informatics at Agilent, said: 'Chromatography software such as Chromeleon stores data in databases rather than flat files, and this presents challenges for centralised archives.
'These databases must be compressed to be easily stored, but in that format they cannot be viewed, indexed or searched.
'We've solved this problem by developing an interface between Chromeleon and Openlab ECM.' Openlab ECM is a central repository that now allows customers to query archived Chromeleon data with user-defined criteria that include locked and/or signed sequences or sequences older than a specified time period.
When stored in Openlab ECM, the data can be indexed, searched and reviewed without a complex restore procedure.
This saves customers time, increases the useful life of the data and reduces implementation and training costs.
Openlab ECM features a familiar, web-based user interface, and customers can schedule automatic data transfers from Chromeleon to Openlab ECM.
Customers can define which data is uploaded based on a set of criteria, and data can upload either immediately upon creation, after a specified time interval or each time it is modified.
Agilent Openlab ECM is a secure, central data repository enabling customers to easily create, manage, collaborate, archive and re-use a wide variety of business-critical information.
This includes raw data and documents of any data in any form, including data from analytical instruments and measurement devices.
Modular architecture enables Openlab ECM to grow as laboratories' needs change.
