Vendor:OPTIMAL SYSTEMS GmbH

**OPTIMAL SYSTEMS GmbH**
Type	Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
Industry	Laboratory informatics
Founder(s)	Karsten Renz, Sven Sauer
Headquarters	Cicerostraße 26, Berlin, Germany
Number of locations	15
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Products list enaio blueline; ; enaio redline; ; enaio Laboratory Content Center;
Employees	400
Website	www.optimal-systems.de

OPTIMAL SYSTEMS GmbH develops and distributes information management software solutions for enterprise and laboratories, including enterprise content management and laboratory informatics software solutions.

History

The company was founded in 1991.^[1] In 1995, the location in Konstanz, Germany opened, providing sales and service to Baden-Württemberg. Additional offices opened in various parts of Germany, including in Hanover (1997; focus on public administration and e-government), Bielefeld (2006; focus on ECM software solutions for companies in regulated environments), Munich (2008; focus on commerce, industry, and services), and Hamburg (2012; focus on digital mail and inbox receipt solutions). The company has also expanded outside of Germany to Austria, Switzerland, and Serbia.^[1]

Other company history includes^[1]:

1998: The company becomes SAP certified.
2002: OPTIMAL SYSTEMS posts record sales of more than 10 million euros.
2005: The company releases its enterprise content management (ECM) suite.
2006: OPTIMAL gains its Microsoft Gold Partner certification.
2009: Their software is declared FDA and GxP compliant and SQM certified.
2011: The company expands into mobile development with its subsidiary emotion touch GmbH.
2011: OPTIMAL SYSTEMS acquires SSBnet and merges it into its operations in Jena.^[2]
2012: Company employment reaches over 300 employees.
2014: The company's ECM solution is rebranded as enaio (Enterprise All-In-One).^[3]
2016: Company celebrates 25-year anniversary
2019: market entry African countries.

Technology and products

enaio Laboratory Content Center

enaio Laboratory Content Center is "an ECM-based electronic management system for laboratory processes."^[4] The suite includes document management and laboratory information management system (LIMS) modules.

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.

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Product: enaio Laboratory Content Center

Sample, inventory, and data management
Sample login and management?	Y^[4]
Sample tracking?	Y^[4]
Sample and/or result batching?	Y^[4]
Task and event scheduling?	Y^[4]
Option for manual result entry?
Multiple data viewing methods?	Y^[4]
Data and trend analysis?	Y^[4]
Data and equipment sharing?	Y^[4]
Customizable fields and/or interface?	Y^[4]
Query capability?	Y^[4]
Import data?	Y^[4]
Internal file or data linking?	Y^[4]
External file or data linking?	Y^[4]
ELN support or integration?	Y^[4]
Export data to MS Excel?	Y^[4]
Raw data management?	Y^[4]
Data warehouse?	Y^[4]
Deadline control?	Y^[4]
Production control?	Y^[4]
Project and/or task management?	Y^[4]
Inventory management?
Document creation and/or management?	Y^[4]
Case management?	Y^[4]
Workflow management?	Y^[4]
Specification management?	Y^[4]
Customer and supplier management?	Y^[4]
Billing management?	Y^[4]
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?	Y^[4]
QA / QC functions?	Y^[4]
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?	Y^[4]
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?	Y^[4]
Data normalization?	Y^[4]
Data validation?	Y^[4]
Data encryption?	Y^[4]
Version control?	Y^[4]
Automatic data backup?	Y^[4]
Environmental monitoring?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?	Y^[4]
Report printing?	Y^[4]
Label support?	Y^[4]
Barcode support?	Y^[4]
Export to PDF?	Y^[4]
Export to MS Word?	Y^[4]
Export to HTML and/or XML?	Y^[4]
Fax integration?
Email integration?	Y^[4]
Base functionality
Administrator management?	Y^[4]
Modular?	Y^[4]
Instrument interfacing and management?	Y^[4]
Mobile device integration?	Y^[4]
Alarms and/or alerts?	Y^[4]
Work-related time tracking?	Y^[4]
Voice recognition system?
External monitoring?	Y^[4]
Messaging?	Y^[4]
Multilingual?	Y^[4]
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?	Y^[4]
Online or integrated help?	Y^[4]
Software as a service delivery model?
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
automotive and aerospace, clinical diagnostics, environmental, food and beverage, law enforcement and forensic, manufacturing and R&D, pharmaceutical, toxicology, chemical and biochemical analytics, process control