Vendor:Research Innovations Limited

**Research Innovations Limited**
Type	Limited company
Industry	Laboratory informatics
Headquarters	24 Fountainhall Road; Edinburgh, Scotland
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Products list eCAT;
Website	Researchspace.com

Research Innovations Limited (operating as "ResearchSpace") develops and distributes laboratory informatics software solutions.

History

Sometime in 2012 Research Innovations Limited acquired Axiope Limited and its electronic laboratory notebook offering eCAT, with the same Axiope team now affiliated with Research Innovations.^[1]^[2] Axiope was a venture spun out of Edinburgh University to "let scientists grow 'semantic webs' in labs."^[3]

Technology and products

eCAT

eCAT is a web-based electronic laboratory notebook (ELN), "a tool that lets you manage experimental data and samples in an integrated online environment."^[4] The software can be installed locally or hosted remotely by ResearchSpace as software as a service (SaaS).

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: eCAT

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?
Multiple data viewing methods?
Data and trend analysis?
Data and equipment sharing?
Customizable fields and/or interface?
Configurable templates and forms?
Query capability?
Import data?
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?
Document creation and/or management?
Lab and/or group management?
Experiment management?
Workflow management?
Customer and supplier management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?
QA / QC functions?
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?
Data normalization?
Data validation?
Data encryption?
Electronic signatures?
Version control?
Automatic data backup?
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?
Modular?
Instrument interfacing and management?
Mobile device integration?
Third-party software integration?
Alarms and/or alerts?
External monitoring?
Messaging?
Bookmarking?
Commenting?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?
Usage-based cost?
Industries served

Pricing

Pricing for eCAT is as follows^[5]:

eCAT Non-Hosted Pricing
	Academic and Non-profit		Commercial
Users	Purchase Price (Perpetual License)	Annual Support and Upgrades (From Year Two)	Purchase Price (Perpetual License)	Annual Support and Upgrades (From Year Two)
2–5	$1,200	$600	$1,800	$900
6–10	$2,000	$1,000	$3,000	$1,500
11–25	$3,500	$1,750	$5,250	$2,625
26–50	$5,500	$2,750	$8,250	$4,125
51–100	$8,500	$4,250	$12,750	$6,375

eCAT Team Hosted Pricing
	Academic and Non-profit			Commercial
Users	Purchase Price	Annual Renewal Price	# of Records	Purchase Price	Annual Renewal Price	# of Records
2–5	$1,200	$1,200	10,000	$1,800	$1,800	10,000
6–10	$2,000	$2,000	20,000	$3,000	$3,000	20,000
11–25	$3,500	$3,500	50,000	$5,250	$5,250	50,000
26–50	$5,500	$5,500	100,000	$8,250	$8,250	100,000
51–100	$8,500	$8,500	200,000	$12,750	$12,750	200,000