Software supports a family of clients including versions for traditional local networks, intranets, and pocket or tablet PCs
The traditional image of a Lims user has him or her seated at a PC, perhaps inputting sample data or working with results. However the huge advances in PC and web technology have opened up endless new possibilities for communicating data, locally and worldwide.
WinLims from QSI supports a family of clients - Windows Client Lims software for traditional local networks, Web Client that runs over intranets and the web, and Pocket Client for PDAs and tablet PCs.
The ability to run a Lims over the web provides the ultimate flexibility for data entry or result retrieval and also overcomes the problem of poor local communications - for example to allow sample login from a remote location.
Suppliers can not only log in a COA sample to their customer's laboratory in advance of a shipment, but also the COA results themselves.
The customers of a consulting laboratory can access their validated results over the web.
The freedom of movement that comes with the use of PDAs and similar devices is a real benefit where communication with the Lims via a fixed PC is not convenient - perhaps under aseptic or radioactive conditions. Combine the PDA with bar coding, and the technician is liberated from the constraints imposed by a fixed desktop.
QSI says it is the only Lims vendor whose software licence covers all these options, enabling users to mix and match to suit their current and future business and technical needs.
