Bika's LIMS integrated with the Plone web content management system, offers a combination of functionality perfectly suited to today's laboratory needs

All current Bika Branches

Current Bika 1.2 "ISO 17025  Ready"  functionality and workflow include:

LIMS

• Requesting analyses - remotely by clients or on-site by lab clerks
• Analysis and Request status management
• Labelling samples
• Job card management. New Worksheet links on Analyses for lab personnel
• On-line status monitoring by clients
• Manual results data capturing by lab technicians
• Results retraction or verification and publishing by lab managers
• Alarms for samples due, late analyses (new), results to be verified or published
• Analyses and Worksheet queries
• Management reports
• Audit Logs on Analysis Requests, Analyses, Worksheets and Orders
  
• Price lists
• Language selection  - English, Afrikaans and new Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish
• New Through-the-web schema editor for Product and Sample type customisation to any industry sector. Also for editing Client, Contact and Order schemas

Web Portal Management, amongst others

• Laboratory manuals and LIMS workspace integration
• Document sharing & collaboration · Regulations and procedures · Review and discuss pages for publication
• Private work spaces for individuals and groups
• On-line Help Centre with e-training, FAQ, Glossary, How To and manuals
  
• Other approved open sourced Plone products from Plone.org

Implementation Fee includes

• LIMS analysis and design - Use case documentation
• Linux, Zope and Plone installation, 128 Bit encryption and digital site certification
  
• Training
• Laboratory and Client user manuals

The Bika LIMS is also available as LSP (LIMS service provision)

Support contracts · Customisations and Services

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