Category Archives: Amphora

A vendor’s internal organization often determines usability

By Simon Coles | Published: July 15, 2010
Few (if any) scientific software vendors have the scale of companies like Apple and can poor millions of dollars into Usability testing – the market just isn’t large enough to support that, and even if we had the money I doubt we could find enough willing volunteers. Producing usable software in this market requires a [...]
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Software licensing models

By Simon Coles | Published: June 2, 2010
The Register has a good article on Software Licensing Models which is a useful primer if you’ve never had to encounter this wonderful world before… I thought it might be worthwhile examining our choices in this area from a vendor perspective. I know some Lab Informatics and especially ELN vendors have some quite complex models, [...]
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Amphora’s new Corporate blog

By Simon Coles | Published: March 11, 2010
We’ve just launched a new blog for Amphora as a company. This site (ELNBlog) will remain as my personal thinking space about ELN issues and anything work-related that interests me, and the corporate blog will become our general public voice. There’s some seriously interesting times ahead for all of us and being able to have [...]
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Glycomar Podcast

By Simon Coles | Published: December 22, 2009
Just bumped into this Tech Nation Podcast which features one of our customers, Glycomar. Very interesting stuff – the interview to starts at 2:30ish and runs for 7 minutes.
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Responding to RFPs

By Simon Coles | Published: September 4, 2009
There are few things I find more painful than responding to RFPs. I’m sure writing them is difficult. But answering them is deeply frustrating – it’s being forced to have a one-way conversation about something where you really need to have a chat, which is much more my natural style. I remember once I turned [...]
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