Vendor:LIMS at work GmbH

**LIMS at work GmbH**
Type	Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
Industry	Laboratory informatics
Headquarters	Trierer Straße 70-72, Bonn, Germany
Area served	Germany
Key people	Hubert Nehring-Timm; Georg Strömer
Products	Labmatica
Website	LIMSatwork.de; labmatica.com
LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/company/lims-at-work-gmbh/

LIMS at work GmbH develops and distributes laboratory informatics software. LIMS at work also provides partner service, support, and training for several other informatics systems, including OnQ Software Pty. Ltd.'s QLIMS.^[1] The company also provides consulting, project management, development, and support services.^[2]

History

History of Labmatica

The Labmatica LIMS has its origins in the FreeLIMS product originally offered by Laboptimizer Ltd.^[3]^[4]^[5] FreeLIMS started out in 2006 as an open-source project by Thomas Maersch, but after seeing the potential of the product he created, Laboptimizer began developing and marketing a commercial version of the product called Labmatica LIMS. At some point between 2009 and 2011 Maersch turned over all rights to the commercial product to the company LIMS at work GmbH.^[6] In 2015, news of a version 2.2 was announced^[7], but it's not clear if it was ever finalized.

Technology and products

As a reseller

LIMS at work is a reseller of both OnQ Software Pty. Ltd.'s QLIMS laboratory information management system (LIMS)^[1] and Medeora GmbH's BioArchive biobanking software.^[8]

In-house

LIMS at work GmbH also develops its own software tools. LaWeb, for example, is a data retrieval and reporting tool that speeds up the complete reporting process.^[9] Another example is Author-e Pharma, that "allows you to create, edit, and distribute your quality-related documents," including R&D reports, specifications, SOPs, and many other structured documents for your next audit.^[10]

LIMS at work also develops and distributes Labmatica LIMS, a LIMS available under both a GNU General Public License (GPL) and a commercial license. The software is currently at version 2.1.^[11]

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: Labmatica LIMS

Sample, inventory, and data management
Sample login and management?	Y^[12]
Sample tracking?	Y^[12]
Sample and/or result batching?
Task and event scheduling?
Option for manual result entry?
Multiple data viewing methods?	Y^[12]
Data and trend analysis?
Data and equipment sharing?
Customizable fields and/or interface?	Y^[12]
Query capability?
Import data?
Internal file or data linking?
External file or data linking?
ELN support or integration?
Export data to MS Excel?
Raw data management?
Data warehouse?
Deadline control?
Production control?
Project and/or task management?	Y^[12]
Inventory management?
Document creation and/or management?
Case management?
Workflow management?	Y^[13]
Specification management?
Customer and supplier management?
Billing management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?
QA / QC functions?	Y^[14]
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?	Y^[13]
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?	Y^[14]
Data normalization?
Data validation?
Data encryption?
Version control?
Automatic data backup?
Environmental monitoring?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?	Y^[12]
Report printing?
Label support?
Barcode support?
Export to PDF?	Y^[12]
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Fax integration?
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?	Y^[12]
Modular?	Y^[13]
Instrument interfacing and management?
Mobile device integration?
Alarms and/or alerts?
Work-related time tracking?
Voice recognition system?
External monitoring?
Messaging?
Multilingual?	Y^[11]
Network-capable?	Y^[12]
Web client or portal?	Y^[12]
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
industry-neutral