make ever Archives - INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE Interactive Software's Achiever Laboratory Information Management and Biobanking software, LIMS and CRM systems transform your business processes, help you to comply and deliver data insights Tue, 06 Oct 2020 12:53:33 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 5 Signs it’s Time to Ditch the Spreadsheets and Invest in a LIMS https://www.interactivesoftware.co.uk/2020/10/06/spreadsheets-lims/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spreadsheets-lims Tue, 06 Oct 2020 12:53:33 +0000 https://www.interactivesoftware.co.uk/?p=19722 Everyone loves a spreadsheet. It’s easy to add data in to as well as update. In fact, they work acceptably well – up to a point. But when they do fail the impact can be catastrophic with data being truncated, inaccurate or not even being saved. What’s worse is that you might not notice this until weeks later. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do something before you reach that point? Here’s 5 signs that it might be time to ditch the spreadsheets and invest in a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) or sample management system. 1. The number of samples you’re processing is increasing Manually entering data in a spreadsheet for tens of samples is very different to adding data for thousands, or even tens of thousands, of samples. It’s not just the quality of your data that starts to suffer as the numbers increase. It’s also questionable – as well as impossible to track – whether you’re actually capturing all your samples. Also, spreadsheets have a limit – after which it’s anyone guess as to whether your data is being saved or truncated. When you start managing and processing samples at scale software such as a LIMS […]

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