Vendor:PDS Group Holding AG

**PDS Group Holding AG**
Type	Aktiengesellschaft
Industry	Laboratory informatics
Headquarters	Dürrenhübelstrasse 9, Pratteln, Basel, Switzerland
Number of locations	3
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Vicente Nogués
Products	Products list Ascentos; ; TranSEND;
Subsidiaries	PDS Pathology Data Systems Ltd.
Website	pdslifesciences.com
LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/company/pds-life-sciences/

PDS Group Holding AG—doing business as PDS Life Sciences or PDS— develops and distributes laboratory informatics software solutions for businesses working in preclinical science.

History

The company was formally founded in November 2007.^[1]

On March 21, 2014, PDS announced it would be rebranding its PathData, ReproData, and ToxData products^[2] as an integrated modular software suite called Ascentos.^[3]^[4] However, it's not clear if the modules function as stand-alone software like their predecessors or as dependent modules of the Ascentos platform.

Technology and products

Ascentos

Ascentos is a modular, cloud-based laboratory information management system (LIMS) for pre-clinical research and reporting for the life sciences and chemical industries.^[5]

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: Ascentos

Sample, inventory, and data management
Sample login and management?	Y^[5]
Sample tracking?	Y^[5]
Sample and/or result batching?
Task and event scheduling?
Option for manual result entry?	Y^[5]
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^[5]
Inventory management?	Y^[5]
Document creation and/or management?
Case management?
Workflow management?	Y^[5]
Specification management?
Customer and supplier management?
Billing management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?	Y^[5]
QA / QC functions?
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?
Data normalization?
Data validation?
Data encryption?
Version control?
Automatic data backup?
Environmental monitoring?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?
Report printing?	Y^[5]
Label support?	Y^[5]
Barcode support?	Y^[5]
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Fax integration?
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?	Y^[5]
Modular?	Y^[5]
Instrument interfacing and management?	Y^[5]
Mobile device integration?
Alarms and/or alerts?
Work-related time tracking?
Voice recognition system?
External monitoring?
Messaging?
Multilingual?	Y^[5]
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?	Y^[5]
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
chemical, life sciences