Vendor:LABVANTAGE Solutions, Inc.

**LabVantage Solutions, Inc.**
Type	Incorporated
Industry	Laboratory informatics
Headquarters	265 Davidson Avenue; Suite #220; Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.
Number of locations	16
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Products list eNotebook; ; LabVantage 7;
Website	LabVantage.com

LabVantage Solutions, Inc. develops and distributes enterprise laboratory informatics software solutions.

History

LabVantage started off as Axiom Systems, which in April 1997 acquired Laboratory MicroSystems from Instron Corp. and formed a new company LabVantage Solutions.^[1]^[2] LabVantage made another acquisition later that year, absorbing Automated Compliance Systems into its portfolio. By 1999 the company had decided to replace or rebrand most of its products with the "Sapphire" product line, featuring a configurable PC-based client-server architecture.^[2] In the summer of 2011, the company rebranded its Sapphire and SQL*LIMS products to its company namesake.^[3]

Technology and products

eNotebook and LabVantage 7

eNotebook is an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) that "automates and expedites your data entry process and operations."^[4]

LabVantage 7 is a laboratory information management system (LIMS) that "can easily adapt to evolving business requirements."^[5] It can be hosted on your own equipment or hosted in the cloud with LabVantage.^[6] The software comes in several editions^[7]:

LabVantage Enterprise, for any enterprise laboratory and industry applications
LabVantage Pharma, a pre-validated solution for the pharmaceutical industry
LabVantage Biobanking, for biorepository management and collection
LabVantage Express, for small labs that don't need much configuration and customization
LabVantage Quality, for "customers across industries looking to go live quickly"

Features

Base features of LabVantage 7 include:

information management and tracking for samples, reagents, compounds, specifications, experiments, tasks, projects, studies, subjects, protocols, etc.
integration with numerous third-party instruments and systems
graphical workflow design and process automation
compliance with government regulations and other standards

For more about the known features of LabVantage 7, see the table below.

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: eNotebook

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^[4]
Multiple data viewing methods?
Data and trend analysis?
Data and equipment sharing?
Customizable fields and/or interface?
Configurable templates and forms?	Y^[4]
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?	Y^[4]
Document creation and/or management?	Y^[4]
Lab and/or group management?
Experiment management?
Workflow management?	Y^[4]
Customer and supplier management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?
QA / QC functions?	Y^[4]
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?	Y^[4]
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?
Data normalization?
Data validation?	Y^[4]
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?	Y^[4]
Mobile device integration?
Third-party software integration?	Y^[4]
Alarms and/or alerts?	Y^[4]
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
industry-neutral

Product: LabVantage 7

Sample, inventory, and data management
Sample login and management?	Y^[8]
Sample tracking?	Y^[8]
Sample and/or result batching?	Y^[8]
Task and event scheduling?	Y^[8]
Option for manual result entry?
Multiple data viewing methods?
Data and trend analysis?	Y^[8]
Data and equipment sharing?	Y^[8]
Customizable fields and/or interface?	Y^[8]
Query capability?	Y^[8]
Import data?	Y^[9]
Internal file or data linking?
External file or data linking?
ELN support or integration?
Export data to MS Excel?
Raw data management?	Y^[9]
Data warehouse?	Y^[8]
Deadline control?
Production control?
Project and/or task management?	Y^[8]
Inventory management?	Y^[8]
Document creation and/or management?	Y^[8]
Case management?
Workflow management?	Y^[8]
Specification management?	Y^[8]
Customer and supplier management?	Y^[8]
Billing management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?	Y^[8]
QA / QC functions?	Y^[8]
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?	Y^[9]
Chain of custody?	Y^[8]
Configurable roles and security?	Y^[8]
Data normalization?
Data validation?
Data encryption?
Version control?
Automatic data backup?
Environmental monitoring?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?	Y^[8]
Report printing?	Y^[8]
Label support?	Y^[9]
Barcode support?	Y^[9]
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Fax integration?
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?	Y^[8]
Modular?	Y^[8]
Instrument interfacing and management?	Y^[8]
Mobile device integration?
Alarms and/or alerts?	Y^[8]
Work-related time tracking?
Voice recognition system?
External monitoring?	Y^[8]
Messaging?
Multilingual?	Y^[8]
Network-capable?	Y^[8]
Web client or portal?	Y^[8]
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?	Y^[6]
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
industry-neutral

Pricing

Source for pricing information is the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). As prices may change at any time, always contact the vendor directly to obtain a price list or quote.

Note: These are GSA prices, and as such they represent the lowest possible negotiated price. These prices aren't available to any entity outside of the Federal Government, and thus prices for non-government entities will be higher. If anything, they represent the lowest possible negotiated price. Pricing for Darwin and Galileo don't appear to be available at this time.

The GSA prices as of January 2014 all reference the product "SAPPHIRE," which is the old name of "LABVANTAGE 6."^[3] Therefore, it is not clear if these prices apply to the LabVantage 7 product. As always, contact the vendor for specific details on pricing.

Products:

SAPPHIRE concurrent, production environment full user license: $8,795.48

provides role-based browser access to the software for the quantity of users at any given time in a single application server production environment

SAPPHIRE concurrent, production environment virtual user license: $2,931.83

provides role-based browser access to the software for the quantity of users at any given time to conduct sample submission, tracking, and view-only reporting of information in a single application server production environment

SAPPHIRE named, production environment full user license: $4,397.74

provides role-based browser access to the software for the quantity of users by individual name in a single application server production environment

SAPPHIRE named, production environment virtual user license: $1,465.91

provides role-based browser access to the software for the quantity of users by individual name to conduct sample submission, tracking, and view-only reporting of information in a single application server production environment

SAPPHIRE clustered, production environment license: $7,818.20

provides role-based browser access to the software for the quantity of licensed SAPPHIRE users on the quantity of application servers in a clustered production environment (e.g. per additional application server in the cluster)

SAPPHIRE development environment user license: $9,772.75

provides role-based browser access to the software for the total quantity of licensed SAPPHIRE users at any given time in a single application server development environment

SAPPHIRE test environment user license: $9,772.75

provides role-based browser access to the software for the total quantity of licensed SAPPHIRE users at any given time in a single application server test environment

SAPPHIRE training environment user license: $9,772.75

provides role-based browser access to the software for the total quantity of licensed SAPPHIRE users at any given time in a single application server training environment

SAPPHIRE instrument interface manager: $4,886.38

provides a bundle of fifty (50) SAPPHIRE Object Manager (SOM) licenses for integrating SAPPHIRE to third-party systems and instruments

SAPPHIRE concurrent, ad hoc query tool: $977.28

provides role-based browser access to this tool for the quantity of users at any given time

SAPPHIRE named, ad hoc query tool: $488.64

provides role-based browser access to this tool for the quantity of users by individual name

SAPPHIRE advanced storage and logistics module: $87,954.75

provides role-based browser access to this module for the total quantity of licensed SAPPHIRE users

SAPPHIRE bio-banking module: $146,591.25

provides role-based browser access to this module, along with the advanced storage and logistics module, for the total quantity of licensed SAPPHIRE users

SAPPHIRE scheduler module: $4,886.38

provides role-based browser access to this module for the total quantity of licensed SAPPHIRE users

SAPPHIRE stability module: $29,318.25

provides role-based browser access to this module for the total quantity of licensed SAPPHIRE users

SAPPHIRE CAPA module: $19,545.50

provides role-based browser access to this module for the total quantity of licensed SAPPHIRE users

SAPPHIRE Enterprise Connector: $29,318.25

enables the exchange of information between the mySAP ERP application and the SAPPHIRE Software using SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure

SAPPHIRE Installation Qualification: $4,886.38

provides documentation and test scripts for qualifying the installation of the out-of-the-box version of the licensed SAPPHIRE software, excluding modules

SAPPHIRE Operational Qualification: $9,772.75

provides documentation and test scripts for qualifying the operation of the out-of-the-box version of the licensed SAPPHIRE software, excluding modules

SAPPHIRE Evergreen Studio Web Page Designer, Professional Edition: $19,545.50

provides a bundle of ten (10) "developer" user licenses, usable at any given time, enabling users to create new configured pages in the software in addition to the functionality of the Standard Edition

Services:

First Annual Maintenance & Support Services: 18% of GSA discounted net software cost

maintenance and support beginning after expiration of the 90-day warranty period and ending one (1) year thereafter

Introduction to SAPPHIRE course: $2,052.28/student

three-day course, with optional certification exam, introduces the student to the components of SAPPHIRE and allows them to work in the out-of-the-box version of the software