Integration will provide life scientists with a single electronic workspace and storage solution that unifies software applications and web-based tools
Scientific Software and LabBook have announced that the companies have entered into a strategic alliance to deliver a complete knowledge management solution to the pharmaceutical and biotech industry.
They will co-develop integrated versions of Scientific Software's CyberLab knowledge engineering system and LabBook's eLabBook to create a comprehensive, enterprise-level front-end application and robust back-end infrastructure to manage R and D discovery data for the life sciences researcher.
"We have chosen LabBook as a partner to provide a complete solution for the research community," commented Soheil Saadat, president and CEO of Scientific Software.
"The integration of eLabBook, the leading research electronic notebook, and CyberLab Kes, the accepted standard for knowledge engineering in life sciences, will provide the first commercially available solution for enterprise knowledge integration from internal and external content sources." The integration of eLabBook and CyberLab Kes will provide R and D life scientists with a single electronic workspace and storage solution that unifies software applications and web-based tools they currently use to create, collect, manipulate, share, and archive complex research data.
LabBook and Scientific Software intend to jointly address the needs of both the bench researcher in providing an electronic discovery environment that facilitates collaboration, and the pharmaceutical research organisation in providing a boost in efficiency of the R and D process and retention of knowledge with an electronic notebook and solid information management infrastructure.
This integrated software solution will encourage communication and collaboration between isolated information silos and presents a unified workspace with standard data types accessible throughout the enterprise. "It is clear that scientists need to have a single unifying point of access to all their information sources and to be able to place their knowledge base in the context of those sources. Providing our eLabBook application as a front end to the sophisticated knowledge engineering system, CyberLab Kes, will go along way to provide such an enabling solution," commented Adel Mikhail, senior VP of LabBook.
