The challenge
• Capture and manage heterogeneous data and make it available across the enterprise
• Securely maintain and preserve the integrity of data over long periods of time
• Provide secure easy access to data, worldwide, for scientific collaboration
• Ensure regulatory compliance

The solution
• The LabCORE ™ Laboratory Data Management System (LDMS) 
• The SampleMaster® Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and Result Point™ web portal from Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc.

The Benefits - Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
• Reduced time retrieving data and correlated documents from 35 hours per incident to 2 hours per incident
• Workflow automation in LabCORE reduced time spent by lab techs capturing data from instruments by 15% weekly
• System required 1-2 hours of training for computer savvy lab techs and a maximum of 2 days for less savvy lab techs
• Provided access to vital data and documents in their native applications via the internet allowing collaboration worldwide on research projects.

Request a detailed PDF version of this entire Case Study to find out much more detail on how the Cary Institute used and benefited from the LabCORE LDMS. You can also view the webinar.

Hear Denise Schmidt, Laboratory Manager at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, explain how her respected environmental laboratory successfully implemented and integrated the LabCORE LDMS and Sample Master LIMS and achieved dramatic results.

• See an overview of the KPI (Key Performance Indicators) that drive operational performance and excellence in environmental laboratories using LabCORE.
• Understand fundamental differences between LDMS solutions for environmental laboratories
• Find out LDMS selection tips on best practices and missteps to avoid

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Many banks struggle to manage their growth. Making sure employees have the latest information on products, operating procedures, marketing initiatives or security concerns is very challenging. Employees may waste precious time searching for information to help them do their job or close a sale to a new customer. In today's competitive Community banking market timeliness in responding to customer inquiries can make a huge difference in getting and retaining customers. In addition compliance with numerous banking regulations such as FDIC and Sarbanes Oxley is an increasing challenge.

An Intranet with very strong document management capabilities can be a tremendous asset in helping a bank to deliver timely information to employees, respond quickly to customer inquiries and maintain compliance. Poplar Solutions' ComBank intranet can help your bank achieve these goals. ComBank provides numerous features designed specifically for the banking industry to help with these issues including:

• 100% browser-based, accessible from anywhere within your organization. As well as from outside bank with proper username and passwords.
• Robust and compliant document management and control providing full document version history, audit trails and electronic signatures.
• 13 easily editable homepage portlets that dramatically improve the banks ability to communicate with employees regarding critical business issues such as security alerts, products, human resources, marketing, etc.
• Sales and service tracking and tools that give banks an edge in winning new business by improving tracking and management of customer requests. (see below)
• Access to virtually any file type including Microsoft Office for seamless integration with Outlook, Word, Excel and Power Point.
• Full-text searching allows users to easily find and retrieve documents based on their contents.
• Easy to manage all the information in your Intranet without programmer intervention.
• Life-cycle management to identify and enforce the stages a document must pass through, such as document review, document approval and document publishing.
• Ability to easily scan, capture, and store existing documents.
• Professional graphics, templates, and style sheets customized with your colors maintain consistent corporate identity throughout the Intranet.
• Acts as a document repository for your organization from Employee Handbooks to Annual Reports to staff birthday listings, ComBank keeps all your employees up to date with latest information.
• Unlimited scalability for supporting thousands of users and managing millions of documents.
• Robust security, based on specific users and their roles, protects an enterprise's valuable knowledge contained in their managed documents.
• Custom Client allows for the creation and integration of customized user programs and specialized interfaces to facilitate document and records management.

ComBank Sales Management Module:
Competition in the banking market is fierce. Customers have many choices when shopping for products like loans, mortgages or investment and saving accounts. The difference between successfully booking sales with customers or losing the business to the competition is often due to factors like customer service and response time. In order to win, banks need to quickly respond to customer inquiries and get the prospects the information they are requesting in a timely way.

Since customers can initiate these inquiries at many touch points within the bank such as branch tellers, customer service representatives or loan officers, these leads need to be channeled to the appropriate subject expert to respond. It is difficult for managers to know the status of these leads such as who is handling them or how many have been converted into sales. Banks need great communication tools more today than ever to help them with these problems. ComBank's Sales Tracking module is such a tool. The Sales Tracking Module provides the following features that will give banks the edge in winning new business and tracking results:

• 100% web browser-based, accessible from anywhere within your organization,  as well as from outside the bank with proper username and passwords.
• Email notification/alerts to multiple parties when sales leads are created and referred or when a lead is not responded to with email links to quickly take users to lead details.
• Extensive reporting capability to allow users to track leads they have received and sent to others, as well as manager reports to track status such as booked, lost or canceled.

www.lab-core.com

 Labcore is a project, document, and data management solution used by leading life sciences, analytical, environmental and other laboratories.  Labcore differentiates from the crowded field of general-purpose document management software with features that address specific requirements of regulated laboratories.

Labcore provides solutions that make laboratories more productive and improves revenue cycles through workflow automation, enterprise scientific software and systems integration. Labcore specializes in electronic document management and seamless analytical lab data integration and automation.
 
Labcore`s products streamline a labs quality assurance and quality control processes; enables compliance with quality and regulatory standards such as 21 CFR Part 11, ISO, CAP or NELAC and dramatically improves the process of storing and sharing electronic data and documents throughout the laboratory.

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Labcore enables regulated laboratories to:

    * Comply with Government Regulations, Internal Standards, and Best Practices

    * Integrate with Instruments, LIMS, and other laboratory systems

    * Increase Lab Profitability and Reduce Operating Costs

    * Streamline and Automate Laboratory Workflows and Business Processes

    * Securely Store and Access Data, Reports, Images, and Intellectual Property

    * Improve Customer Satisfaction and Retention

    * Mitigate Business, Regulatory and Legal Risk

    * Assemble and Manage Complex Reports and Customer Deliverables from various sources

Labcore is a feature-rich, modular solution that allows you to customize an implementation to meet your unique goals, timelines and budget.  Whether Labcore is part of a formal quality initiative such as Six Sigma or ISO, or a response to a need for improving lab management, Labcore may be the solution to your needs.

Labcore offers the integration touch points to capture, store, search and access the vast amounts of data, reports, images and intellectual property that are generated in the lab.   Reducing the growing volumes of paper documentation saves money, helps the environment, and frees up work space in the laboratory. The easy-to-use workflow editor adds structure, automation and audit control to laboratory operations without sacrificing the creativity and experimentation that drives innovation and discovery.  Labcore forms a key part of a laboratory’s program for complying with government regulations (FDA, EPA, others), industry standards, and internal accountability standards.  

Labcore is designed for quick, scalable implementations and requires minimal training so your laboratory can experience the benefits in short order.  Labcore is offered with flexible, affordable subscription pricing options which eliminate the high start up costs associated with laboratory software.  Labcore is a securely delivered Software-as-Service and is ideal for labs with minimal or fully-utilized IT resources. See for yourself why leading regulated laboratories select Labcore.

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