Category Archives: Happenings

Irritating

By Simon Coles | Published: February 16, 2009
This sort of thing upsets me… Customer looks at ELNs, gets vendors in to chat to. Customer likes what we do. Competitor goes in very aggressively making promises they can’t keep and offering a “free trial”. Salesperson makes no effort to understand the customer’s needs, just keeps nodding and pushing the trial. Customer tries free [...]
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Lessons from ERP – When will we learn?

By Simon Coles | Published: February 8, 2009
It was the fashion a few years ago to refer to ELNs as “ERP” for research, and that’s a business model which some of the larger vendors have embraced with glee. A broad range of product offerings (acquire or build as needed), an aggressive sales force, confident marketing, and off we go! You too can [...]
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PatentSafe Personal Edition

By Simon Coles | Published: February 7, 2009
We’ve just released a new edition of our flagship PatentSafe product, aimed at individuals, small groups etc. You can read the detail on PatentSafe Personal Edition in the Press Release but some background might be of interest and this blog is the place for it! I have to admit that we aren’t that clever – [...]
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Lab Data Management in Frankfurt

By Simon Coles | Published: February 7, 2009
We’re participating in the IQPC “Data Management & Knowledge Discovery” conference in Frankfurt, April 20 – 22, 2009. As is our habit, there will be an Amphora dinner the evening of the first day of the main conference. If you are an Amphora customer (or friend!) and will be attending let Jo know.
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Twitter

By Simon Coles | Published: February 7, 2009
Forgive me, for I have not blogged in ages etc. etc. I shall attempt to do better in future…. Anyway, for your amusement some of Amphora’s happy crew are now on Twitter (thanks in part to encouragement from Suw who gave a really interesting presentation at the SMI ELN conference in London last week. If [...]
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