Laboratory Information Management System
Background
Founded in 1985, LabWorks is a leader in the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) industry and serves more than 500 laboratories worldwide. From small single-user labs to extensive facilities with geographically dispersed locations the company caters to labs of all sizes. The company’s eLIMS software is comprehensive and provides users with the functionality and tools to manage and automate key laboratory including full sample/analysis, inventory, project and customer management.
The company recognized the immediate need to modernize its eLIMS and envisioned a flexible, user-friendly platform on the market that would provide its customers with laboratory-specific configurations, automation and analytics, and remote and mobile access to users. Integrating modern workflows into the old platform was difficult and costly, resulting in LabWorks seeking DSR’s expertise to develop and maintain a modern out-of-the-box system requiring less customization by the customer. LabWorks’ goal was to refresh the user experience and integrate their 20 years of legacy code into modern workflows. It was vital that the gradual migration of the codebase would allow for backwards compatibility and interoperability between the new and legacy solutions to maintain users’ data.
DSR Services
Defined Requirements based on User Stories
Created New UI/UX Kit
Architecture and Design
Modernize Legacy Codebase
Backend Implementation
Completed QA and Integration Testing
The Solution
DSR’s depth and breadth of experience in workflow and content management systems enabled the engineers to quickly understand the complexities of the eLIMS workflow and the engineers worked closely with LabWorks customers to understand their needs. DSR created a new, intuitive experience for the UI/UX and workflows, modernized the backend, frontend and legacy code base for core LIMS components. DSR upgraded the system by achieving backwards compatibility between the legacy browsers and desktop applications.
After modernizing LabWorks’s eLIMS codebase and UI/UX for desktop and mobile uses, the team provided world-class QA and automated testing services for system-level functionality, interoperability and backwards compatibility. DSR then implemented system deployment procedures based on AZURE.
UI/UX
Updated UI/UX and Workflows for desktop and mobile to be intuitive and user-friendly.
System Modernization
Port the current eLIMS to the web with a modernized, well-supported codebase.
Legacy Integration
Integration of new solution with legacy desktop applications.
Gradual Migration
Ensured backwards compatibility between modern and legacy systems to maintain users’ data.
Technologies
Benefits
Modernized system compatible with legacy products
Designed new, intuitive mobile and desktop UI/UX and workflows
On-time delivery of a quality product
20+
Years of legacy code which DSR modernized
18+
Technologies
5+
Years in Production
The Result
Requiring no customization for 95% of their customers, LabWorks is easily integrated into the workflows of all types of labs, with clean, intuitive, and well supported software as part of their LIMS offering. Due in part to the interoperability and integration integrated into the LabWorks platform, the company, sells the most flexible LIMS available on the market.
“DSR has allowed us to make commitments, with confidence, to our customers, because they have been able to meet the commitments they have made to us,” - Lane Frank, CEO of LabWorks.
