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Some brief thoughts on the iPad and ELN

By Simon Coles | Published: May 4, 2010
So I’ve said a lot in other forums about the iPad and ELNs and thought I should briefly jot something down here. So here’s the high level of why I think the iPad is interesting for Lab Informatics generally and Electronic Lab Notebooks in particular. Aside from all the really interesting philosophy stuff which might [...]
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Royal Society of Chemistry Lab Integration, 20th May in London

By Simon Coles | Published: April 21, 2010
I’ll be contributing to the Royal Society of Chemistry workshop on “The Challenges Facing Laboratory Systems’ Integration” on the 20th May 2010 in London. More information here. We’ll also have a couple of iPads with us if people are interested – we think this class of device has great potential in Labs.
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Marc Benioff on the iPad and Cloud 2.0 – I wonder about ELNs

By Simon Coles | Published: March 30, 2010
Interesting perspective on TechCrunch by Marc Benioff (of Salesforce fame) on the iPad and the Cloud: The future of our industry now looks totally different than the past. It looks like a sheet of paper, and it’s called the iPad. It’s not about typing or clicking; it’s about touching. It’s not about text, or even [...]
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Buying an ELN: The perils of application-centric thinking

By Simon Coles | Published: March 30, 2010
Over at The Integrated Lab, John Trigg looks at the ELN Vs LIMS issue which has come around again as more traditional “LIMS” vendors introduce “ELN” products targeted at their traditional QA/QC customer base. He says: But perhaps the real issue here is our application-centric view of laboratory systems Which I very much agree with. [...]
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Electronic Lab Notebook Requirements – possible pitfalls

By Simon Coles | Published: March 2, 2010
Project teams have been drawing up lists of requirements since the dawn of time, and since that first list the fate of a project has to a great extent been sealed the moment the requirements have been finalized. I wrote this article by accident but I thought it was worth blogging as it explores the specific problems with requirements gathering and RFPs in the ELN industry and suggests some probably unrealistically hopeful solutions. Wouldn't it be delightful if RFPs contained a final sections with questions such as:
  • “If you could remove 5 of our requirements what would they be and why?”
  • “What are the most expensive/troublesome requirements listed above?”
  • “Which of these requirements do you think we don’t really need, based on your experience of similar projects?”
  • “What are we missing?”
  • “If you were us, what are the three things you would be most worried about going forward?”
  • “Please rate our chance of success if we go with you, and if we go with another vendor, with reasons”
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