Vendor:Instem LSS Limited

**Instem LSS Limited**
Type	Limited company
Industry	Laboratory informatics
Headquarters	Diamond Way, Stone Business Park, Stone, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Products list Logbook; ; Provantis;
Website	Instem.com

Instem LSS Limited develops and distributes laboratory informatics software solutions.

History

The Centrus LIMS solution for early drug development was phased out sometime in 2015.^[1]

On September 1, 2021, Instem announced that it had acquired PDS Group Holding AG. Noting that "PDS has been a direct competitor of Instem," and the desire "to concentrate our investment into a single line of products," in their press release^[2], it is unsurprising that the Ascentos product of PDS is no longer showing on the website (as of 2023), and an "end-of-life policy" for Ascentos exists.^[3]

Technology and products

Logbook and Provantis

Logbook is an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) designed as "a safe, secure repository for a wide range of information that would traditionally be kept on paper notebooks and forms."^[4]

Provantis is a laboratory information management system (LIMS) that "streamlines processes and workflows with straightforward, intuitive functionality for simple and complex studies within a GLP or non-GLP environment."^[5]

Both products are available as self-hosted applications or software as a service subscriptions.^[6]

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: Logbook

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?
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?	Y^[4]
Import data?
Internal file or data linking?
External file or data linking?
Export data to MS Excel?	Y^[4]
Raw data management?
Data warehouse?	Y^[4]
Project and/or task management?
Inventory management?
Document creation and/or management?	Y^[4]
Lab and/or group management?
Experiment management?
Workflow management?
Customer and supplier management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?	Y^[4]
QA / QC functions?
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?	Y^[4]
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?
Report printing?
Label support?	Y^[4]
Barcode support?	Y^[4]
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?	Y^[4]
Export to HTML and/or XML?	Y^[4]
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?	Y^[4]
Modular?
Instrument interfacing and management?
Mobile device integration?
Third-party software integration?
Alarms and/or alerts?	Y^[4]
External monitoring?
Messaging?	Y^[4]
Bookmarking?
Commenting?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?	Y^[6]
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
industry-neutral

Product: Provantis

Sample, inventory, and data management
Sample login and management?
Sample tracking?
Sample and/or result batching?
Task and event scheduling?	Y^[5]
Option for manual result entry?	Y^[5]
Multiple data viewing methods?	Y^[5]
Data and trend analysis?	Y^[5]
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?
Inventory management?	Y^[5]
Document creation and/or management?
Case management?
Workflow management?
Specification management?	Y^[5]
Customer and supplier management?
Billing management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?
QA / QC functions?	Y^[5]
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?	Y^[5]
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?	Y^[5]
Data normalization?
Data validation?	Y^[5]
Data encryption?
Version control?	Y^[5]
Automatic data backup?
Environmental monitoring?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?	Y^[5]
Report printing?	Y^[5]
Label support?	Y^[5]
Barcode support?	Y^[5]
Export to PDF?	Y^[5]
Export to MS Word?	Y^[5]
Export to HTML and/or XML?	Y^[5]
Fax integration?
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?	Y^[5]
Modular?	Y^[5]
Instrument interfacing and management?	Y^[5]
Mobile device integration?	Y^[5]
Alarms and/or alerts?
Work-related time tracking?
Voice recognition system?
External monitoring?	Y^[5]
Messaging?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?	Y^[5]
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?	Y^[6]
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
pathology, toxicology