Vendor:Labstep Ltd.

**Labstep Ltd.**
Type	Limited company
Industry	Laboratory informatics
Headquarters	9th Floor, 107 Cheapside, London, United Kingdom
Number of locations	1
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Labstep ELN
Parent	STARLIMS Corporation
Website	labstep.com
LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/company/labstep/

Labstep Ltd. (operating as Terrington Data Management) develops and distributes laboratory informatics software solutions.

History

The company was founded in 2013.^[1]

On August 22, 2023, STARLIMS Corporation announced that acquisition of Labstep Ltd., with the goal of introducing "a modern and user-friendly ELN to its existing platform."^[2] No other details were provided, and it's not clear how Labstep Ltd. will be organized within STARLIMS.

Technology and products

Labstep

Labstep is a cloud-based electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) platform with other functionality that "that accelerates research, redefines scientific data capture and guides organizations towards a digital future."^[3] The base software is available free to academia, or a Pro or Enterprise edition can be purchased.

Features

The following feature list(s) is/are derived solely from public, freely-available online information the vendor provides. A lack of a "Y" does not necessarily mean that the product doesn't have that feature. The lack of a "Y" could mean:

the vendor chose to not put relevant feature information online despite its existence in the product.
the vendor chooses to make the feature information available only to those who create an account or call/e-mail.
the feature information exists online to the public, but a URL could not be found to cite the existence of the feature.
the feature does not exist for the product.

A vendor's product may receive more confirmed features with the addition of more public information to the vendor's site and/or by providing a URL to a page or document that can act as a citation for the existence of the feature. Prospective buyers are highly recommended to contact the vendor directly to verify features as this list isn't authoritative, and product upgrades and changes happen rapidly in some cases.

Product: LabStep

Experiment, collaboration, and data management
Chemical and/or mathematical drawing and calculation?
Chemical and/or spectrum file support?
Task and event scheduling?
Option for manual result entry?	Y^[3]
Multiple data viewing methods?
Data and trend analysis?
Data and equipment sharing?	Y^[3]
Customizable fields and/or interface?
Configurable templates and forms?
Query capability?	Y^[3]
Import data?	Y^[3]
Internal file or data linking?
External file or data linking?
Export data to MS Excel?
Raw data management?
Data warehouse?
Project and/or task management?
Inventory management?	Y^[3]
Document creation and/or management?
Lab and/or group management?	Y^[3]
Experiment management?	Y^[3]
Workflow management?
Customer and supplier management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?
QA / QC functions?
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?	Y^[3]
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?
Data normalization?
Data validation?
Data encryption?	Y^[3]
Electronic signatures?
Version control?
Automatic data backup?	Y^[3]
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?
Report printing?
Label support?
Barcode support?
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?	Y^[3]
Modular?
Instrument interfacing and management?	Y^[3]
Mobile device integration?	Y^[3]
Third-party software integration?
Alarms and/or alerts?
External monitoring?
Messaging?
Bookmarking?	Y^[3]
Commenting?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?	Y^[3]
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?	Y^[3]
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
industry-neutral

Pricing

Per the company website, pricing for Labstep is as follows^[4]:

Start-up: £30 per user, per month (£27 if billed annually), with Notebook and Inventory modules, unlimited storage
Pro: £50 per user, per month (£45 if billed annually), with everything in Start-up plus a dedicated account manager and additional tools
Enterprise: £100 per user, per month (£90 if billed annually), with everything in Pro plus advanced security, reporting, and customization