Laboratory information management system has been re-engineered to incorporate a graphical user interface (Gui) that supports a web browser deployment
Equal is the web enabled version of LabPro, described as a proven and stable Lims that has been successfully used by major companies in the dairy, brewing and water treatment plants and associated industries for the past ten years.
With the advent of high performance internet computing the company has, over the past four years, re-engineered LabPro to incorporate a graphical user interface (Gui) that supports a web browser deployment.
This new product is called Equal.
Initially the underlying (Progress) database was not replaced, thus easing the development, transition and implementation.
However, LabPro 2000 is now able to support alternative databases, and is currently offering Microsoft's SQL Server, My SQL and Oracle.
As part of the Equal development program, it has replaced (and enhanced) all of the LabPro programs, it says.
The reports and sample registration can now be scheduled to run automatically (hourly, weekly, monthly, etc) and can (where appropriate) be selectively output to the screen, a specific printer, sent to (multiple) email addresses, or imported into a spreadsheet.
Equal has been designed to run in a Windows browser environment - initially using Internet Explorer (IE).
Equal uses a desktop PC without the requirement for third party software (other than IE) connected to a web server and a database server (can be separate or common hardware boxes).
At the same time the company points to its database independence, since it is utilising state of the art methodologies (Java, JSP and JDBC).
This means that the RDBMS can be that of the customer's preference; Oracle, Progress, Sybase, SQL Server, My SQL, etc.
