Rock paintings of people and elephants, ancient, by the South African San, the world's oldest people
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South African MeerKAT radio telescope, precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)

Bika LIMS & Lab Systems

Bika LIMS was born in 2002, and founders Bika Lab Systems Pty Ltd incorporated in 2005. In Cape Town, South Africa. An agile project, using robust modern Open Source tools and the Internet to ensure quality, ease of use, while containing cost

‘Bika’, pronounced bi:ka, is an isiZulu word that means ‘to report’, to tell it as it is

Helped along by generous clients and the energy of more coders, Bika advanced to a feature rich stable v3 in 2017, with branches for health care, environmental management, cannabis and interlaboratory proficiency testing

Project

The project pulled international participation, and other contributors were disadvantaged by both the Bika project and company using the same name

Further designs, focusing on performance and maintainability, hence came to be as Senaite LIMS early 2019, with most new code now generated in the Northern Hemisphere.
Bika Lab Systems contributes to the Senaite core and maintains the Bika brand from Cape Town, as a skin of add-on customisations and configurations
Bika pursues holistic solutions to systems development and collaborations with inspirational people in the spirit of liberty and Ubuntu

Forward view in airplane cockpit flying over mountains

Bika Testimonials

Bika LIMS assisted with our lab's ISO 17025 accreditation and was later expanded to include more instrument interfaces. The Bika Team is internationally recognised, highly professional and experts in their field

Naomi Jeftha Manager, wine lab

Bika LIMS has a decades long ISO 17025 track record and large online knowledge base shared between supporting laboratories, and I believe sets the benchmark for true affordability, development expertise and on-going technical support. Our peers who developed inhouse or purchased proprietary LIMS, far exceeded our own spending

Patrick Griffiths Owner, animal feeds lab

I acknowledge the great work they have done on this product. Working under the Open Source philosophy is very comfortable because it is a way to share and show work. I thank each of you for your knowledge, care and commitment. I congratulate you as a human and professional group

Marcos Cruz IAEA fellow
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