Vendor:Ovation.io, Inc.

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Physion, LLC
Type Limited liability company
Industry Informatics
Laboratory informatics
Headquarters 1430 Massachusetts Ave., Second Floor
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Number of locations 1
Area served Worldwide
Key people Barry Wark, Winston Braser
Products Ovation Research, Ovation Service Lab, Ovation Enterprise
Website Ovation.io

Physion, LLC (doing business as "Ovation"[1]) develops and distributes the laboratory information management system (LIMS) software solution LIMS+.

History

Physion was formally founded as Physion Consulting, LLC in March 2009, though the company changed its name to Physion, LLC in October 2013.[2] In mid- to late 2011, the company introduced its Ovation scientific data management system (SDMS) to the public, describing it as a tool that "handles the entire lifecycle of scientific data from acquisition to publication and beyond."[3][4] Development of the software happened in-house and on the company's GitHub account.[5] In 2012, CEO and co-founder Barry Wark shared the SDMS' data model with the INCF Neuroimaging and Neurophysiology Data Sharing Task Forces, comparing and contrasting it with the XCEDE 2 XML-based model developed by the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN).[6][7][8] After initially using relational databases to prototype the software, Physion later turned to IBM's Cloudant Dedicated Cluster in late 2014 for a more "scalable data layer that synchronizes data between the cloud and multiple local clients."[9] The company had also developed a Python API to allow "full functionality of the Ovation ecosystem from within Python."[10]

In January 2016, Physion implemented a series of new changes with the company's web presence and software offerings. The company shut down its physion.us domain[11], changed their doing business as name to Ovation, and seemingly phased out its Ovation SDMS for a new laboratory information management system (LIMS) called LIMS+.[12] The last known version of Ovation SDMS before that was 3.1.3.[13]

At some point in late 2016 or early 2017, the company backtracked on LIMS+[14][15] and decided to split the product up into two components: an SDMS-like "Research" component and a LIMS-like "Service Lab" component of the Ovation software platform.[16]

Technology and products

Ovation

Ovation is a cloud-based software platform for science. The platform is separated into an SDMS-like component (Research) and a LIMS-like component (Service Lab).[16] Both components seem to make up a third product, Ovation Enterprise.[17]

The Research component offers features such as chat, mentions, version control, team management, data management, role-based security, experiment and associated metadata management.[18]

Features

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Product: Ovation Service Lab
Sample, inventory, and data management
Sample login and management?Y[19]
Sample tracking?Y[19]
Sample and/or result batching?
Task and event scheduling?Y[19]
Option for manual result entry?
Multiple data viewing methods?
Data and trend analysis?
Data and equipment sharing?
Customizable fields and/or interface?
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[19]
Inventory management?
Document creation and/or management?Y[19]
Case management?
Workflow management?Y[19]
Specification management?
Customer and supplier management?Y[19]
Billing management?Y[19]
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?Y[19]
QA / QC functions?
Performance evaluation?Y[19]
Audit trail?Y[19]
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?Y[19]
Data normalization?
Data validation?
Data encryption?
Version control?
Automatic data backup?
Environmental monitoring?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?Y[19]
Report printing?
Label support?
Barcode support?
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Fax integration?
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?Y[19]
Modular?
Instrument interfacing and management?
Mobile device integration?
Alarms and/or alerts?
Work-related time tracking?
Voice recognition system?
External monitoring?Y[19]
Messaging?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?Y[19]
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
general

Pricing

Pricing for Ovation is as follows[20][21]:

Research Free: $0/month, up to 10GB of storage

Pro: $25/month, up to 1TB of storage; includes administrative controls, technical support, and phone support

Enterprise: $??/month, unlimited storage; includes warehouse, single sign-on, administrative controls, technical support, and phone support

Note that HIPAA compliance is an extra $85/month, and extra storage is $20/TB.

Service Lab

After a set-up fee of unknown cost, users are charged by sample: $10/per for pre-clinical, $15/per for clinical

Note that HL7 integration is an extra $800/month, fax gateway $300/month, and research integration $15/seat.


Ovation Enterprise pricing is not public.

Demonstration videos and other media

Additional information

References

  1. ↑ "OVATION - Trademark Details". Justia Trademarks. Justia, Inc. 15 April 2015. https://trademarks.justia.com/857/71/ovation-85771270.html. Retrieved 14 March 2016. 
  2. ↑ "Business Entity Summary - ID Number: 001032890". Corporations Division - Search the Corporate Database. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. http://corp.sec.state.ma.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary.aspx?FEIN=001032890&SEARCH_TYPE=1. Retrieved 14 March 2016. 
  3. ↑ "Ovation scientific data management system". Physion Consulting, LLC. Archived from the original on 08 November 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20111108150857/http://physionconsulting.com/web/Ovation.html. Retrieved 14 March 2016. 
  4. ↑ "Ovation Scientific Data Management System - Trademark Details". Justia Trademarks. Justia, Inc. 15 April 2015. https://trademarks.justia.com/853/46/ovation-scientific-data-management-system-85346962.html. Retrieved 14 March 2016. 
  5. ↑ "Physion". GitHub. GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/physion. Retrieved 14 March 2016. 
  6. ↑ "Ovation". INCF Portal. International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility. 11 October 2012. http://datasharing.incf.org/ep/Ovation. Retrieved 14 March 2016. 
  7. ↑ Wark, Barry (September 2012). "Ovation Scientific Data Management System". International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility. http://datasharing.incf.org/ds_ep/images/2/22/Ovation_INCF_datasharing_taskforce_2012.pdf. Retrieved 14 March 2016. 
  8. ↑ Gadde, S.; Aucoin, N.; Grethe, J.S. et al.. "XCEDE: An Extensible Schema For Biomedical Data". Neuroinformatics 10 (1): 19-32. doi:10.1007/s12021-011-9119-9. PMC PMC3836560. PMID 21479735. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3836560. 
  9. ↑ "Physion" (PDF). IBM Software. November 2014. http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=AB&infotype=PM&appname=SWGE_IM_IM_USEN&htmlfid=IMC14920USEN&attachment=IMC14920USEN.PDF#loaded. Retrieved 14 March 2016. 
  10. ↑ Physion, LLC (13 August 2014). "ovation 2.1.17: Ovation Python API". Python Software Foundation. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ovation. Retrieved 14 March 2016. 
  11. ↑ "404 page not found". physion.us. Physion, LLC. Archived from the original on 09 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160109162910/http://physion.us/. Retrieved 14 March 2016. 
  12. ↑ Hasler, A. (16 February 2016). "Lab Management Is Broken: Introducing LIMS+". ovation.io. Physion, LLC. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160314174343/https://www.ovation.io/clinical-lab-management-blog/lab-management-is-broken. Retrieved 14 March 2016. 
  13. ↑ Haris (11 August 2015). "Problem in Loading ,downloading new points on Operator drops in Ovation 3.1.3". Emerson Exchange 365. Emerson Process Management LLLP. http://www.emersonexchange365.com/operateandmanage/ovation/f/51/t/5196. Retrieved 14 March 2016. 
  14. ↑ "A Brand New LIMS". Physion, LLC. Archived from the original on 06 May 2016. https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160506005503/https://www.ovation.io/service-labs. Retrieved 20 April 2017. 
  15. ↑ "To Profitably Grow, Service Labs Need Modern Technology Solutions Built for Current and Future Challenges" (PDF). Physion, LLC. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160314162311/https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/730505/ovation-whitepaper.pdf?t=1457751886726. Retrieved 14 March 2016. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Ovation's Scientific Data Layer". Physion, LLC. https://www.ovation.io/platform. Retrieved 20 April 2017. 
  17. ↑ "Ovation Enterprise". Physion, LLC. https://www.ovation.io/enterprise. Retrieved 20 April 2017. 
  18. ↑ "Ovation Research". Physion, LLC. https://www.ovation.io/research. Retrieved 20 April 2017. 
  19. ↑ 19.00 19.01 19.02 19.03 19.04 19.05 19.06 19.07 19.08 19.09 19.10 19.11 19.12 19.13 19.14 19.15 "Ovation Service Lab". Physion, LLC. https://www.ovation.io/service-lab. Retrieved 20 April 2017. 
  20. ↑ "Research Pricing". Physion, LLC. https://www.ovation.io/research-pricing. Retrieved 20 April 2017. 
  21. ↑ "Service Lab Pricing". Physion, LLC. https://www.ovation.io/service-lab-pricing. Retrieved 20 April 2017. 
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