Vendor:SciCord, LLC

**SciCord, LLC**
Type	Limited liability company
Industry	Laboratory informatics
Headquarters	810 N. Harrison Ave., Cary, North Carolina, U.S.
Area served	United States
Key people	David Strauss
Products	SciCord and SciCord Lite
Website	SciCord.com

SciCord, LLC is a privately owned, funded and managed company headquartered in the United States develops, distributes, and supports laboratory informatics software solutions. SciCord serves the needs of the pharmaceutical industry supporting analytical drug development, quality assurance, quality control, and manufacturing. SciCord develops hybrid documentation solutions designed to help laboratories streamline their documentation and compliance.

History

The company was founded in March 2014^[1] with the goal "to provide the preferred recording medium to scientific organizations producing intellectual property or compliance documentation."^[2]

In 2017, the company introduced a Lite version of their SciCord software, which is used to convert Excel spreadsheets into a regulatory-compliant document.

Technology and products

SciCord and SciCord Lite

SciCord is a cloud-based electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) that also "combines the compliance and structured aspects of a laboratory information management system (LIMS)."^[3] The company states the software is ideal for those conducting analytical quality control, development studies, and synthetic chemistry as well as handling manufacture batch records.^[3]

SciCord Lite is a cloud-based application that "provides the framework to protect and secure Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to ensure compliance with 21 CFR Part 11 in GxP environments."^[4]

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: SciCord

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^[5]
Multiple data viewing methods?	Y^[3]
Data and trend analysis?	Y^[6]
Data and equipment sharing?	Y^[6]
Customizable fields and/or interface?	Y^[5]
Configurable templates and forms?	Y^[3]
Query capability?	Y^[6]
Import data?	Y^[5]
Internal file or data linking?	Y^[5]
External file or data linking?	Y^[6]
Export data to MS Excel?	Y^[7]
Raw data management?
Data warehouse?	Y^[5]
Project and/or task management?
Inventory management?	Y^[5]
Document creation and/or management?	Y^[6]
Lab and/or group management?
Experiment management?	Y^[6]
Workflow management?	Y^[6]
Customer and supplier management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?	Y^[5]
QA / QC functions?	Y^[5]
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?
Chain of custody?	Y^[5]
Configurable roles and security?	Y^[6]
Data normalization?	Y^[3]
Data validation?	Y^[5]
Data encryption?
Electronic signatures?	Y^[6]
Version control?	Y^[5]
Automatic data backup?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?	Y^[5]
Report printing?
Label support?
Barcode support?	Y^[6]
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?	Y^[6]
Modular?	Y^[6]
Instrument interfacing and management?	Y^[6]
Mobile device integration?
Third-party software integration?
Alarms and/or alerts?
External monitoring?	Y^[5]
Messaging?
Bookmarking?
Commenting?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?	Y^[3]
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
chemical, life sciences, manufacturing and R&D, pharmaceutical

Pricing

SciCord pricing is as follows^[8]:

GxP certified environments: "$2,500 per seat per year, billed monthly based on actual number of active licenses"

non-GxP industry environments: "$1,500 per seat per year, billed monthly based on actual number of active licenses"

non-GxP academic environments: "$750 per seat per year, billed monthly based on actual number of active licenses"

The license is per year and includes infrastructure support, software, and environments. Consult the vendor price page for further details.

SciCord Lite pricing is as follows^[9]:

Up to 15 users: $5,000/year

Up to 50 users: $7,000/year

The company states " [t]he license fees include Infrastructure support, Software and Environments."

Demonstration videos and other media

A gallery of video demonstrations and screenshots can be found here or on YouTube. Video topics include asset management, document management, review process, standards and solutions, chemical inventory, file attachment, and sample inventory. Each video goes through how the feature is performed on the SciCord client.