Vendor:FORMULATOR Software, LLC

**FORMULATOR Software, LLC**
Type	Limited liability company
Industry	Laboratory informatics
Headquarters	122 W. Main St., Clinton, New Jersey, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Products	FORMULATOR
Website	FORMULATORUS.com
LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/company/formulator-software-llc/

FORMULATOR Software, LLC develops and distributes laboratory informatics software solutions.

History

FORMULATOR was originally developed by ColorTec Associates — a developer of "color QC, color mixing, and laboratory applications" — in 2002. A separate company, FORMULATOR Software, was created in 2005 to further develop the product.^[1]

In July 2016, the company announced it was adding a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) option for its software offerings.^[2]

Technology and products

FORMULATOR

FORMULATOR is an electronic laboratory notebook "for the formulation chemist, food technologist and regulatory agent."^[3] The software's base functionality is represented as the "chemical" version. Additional modules may be added to the software to give it extended functionality for researchers in the cosmetic, nutritional, and pharmaceutical industries. A SaaS-based cloud version of their software is also available.^[2]

Additional modules include:

project manager
advanced costing
sample manager
inventory manager
quality manager
production manager
labeling add-on

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: FORMULATOR

Experiment, collaboration, and data management
Chemical and/or mathematical drawing and calculation?	Y^[4]
Chemical and/or spectrum file support?
Task and event scheduling?
Option for manual result entry?
Multiple data viewing methods?
Data and trend analysis?	Y^[4]
Data and equipment sharing?
Customizable fields and/or interface?	Y^[4]
Configurable templates and forms?
Query capability?
Import data?
Internal file or data linking?
External file or data linking?
Export data to MS Excel?	Y^[5]
Raw data management?
Data warehouse?
Project and/or task management?	Y^[5]
Inventory management?	Y^[6]
Document creation and/or management?	Y^[4]
Lab and/or group management?
Experiment management?
Workflow management?
Customer and supplier management?	Y^[5]
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?	Y^[7]
QA / QC functions?	Y^[8]
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?	Y^[9]
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?
Data normalization?
Data validation?
Data encryption?
Electronic signatures?
Version control?
Automatic data backup?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?	Y^[4]
Report printing?
Label support?	Y^[10]
Barcode support?
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?
Modular?	Y^[3]
Instrument interfacing and management?
Mobile device integration?
Third-party software integration?	Y^[10]
Alarms and/or alerts?
External monitoring?
Messaging?
Bookmarking?
Commenting?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?	Y^[2]
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
chemical, cosmetic, food and beverage, manufacturing and R&D, pharmaceutical

Pricing

Per the company website, pricing for FORMULATOR is as follows^[11]:

FORMULATOR Pricing
Product	Single-user cost	Multi-user MSSQL cost	Cloud-hosted (per month)
FORMULATOR Plus	$1,595	$2,495	$98
Nutritional module	$995	$995	$38.70
Cosmetics module	$395	$395	$15.40
Pharmaceutical module	$495	$495	$19.25