Cloud hosted LIMS – 10 Things to Know Before You Jump
The choice of whether to keep your LIMS and its associated data local to the laboratory and on-premise, or remotely in the cloud, is a more complex choice than it may seem.
Autoscribe Informatics took the opportunity in a recent webinar to discuss the much-misunderstood subject of cloud hosted laboratory software solutions. Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) are the heart of any modern laboratory, recording and storing all sample and associated meta data, as well as inventory, quality, staff training, and instrumentation information in one place. The choice of whether to keep the application and its associated data local to the laboratory and on-premise, or remotely in the cloud, is a more complex choice than it may seem. Considerations should go well beyond the resource needed to maintain the software and data and the costs of doing so, but often do not.
