While helping to lower the cost of discovering new therapeutics through Dell’s electronic lab notebook (ELN) solution bundle, with pharmaceutical and biotech companies spending billions of dollars to bring new drugs to market, many are turning to Dell to help improve their research efficiency and collaboration.To create a solution that is capable of managing research documents while providing a laptop computer designed to make laboratory records and data readily available throughout R&D organizations, Dell combines servers and support with its convertible Latitude™ XT tablets and Rescentris, Inc.’s Collaborative Electronic Research Framework™ (CERF). Capturing and organizing data, documents, images and lab notes to get up and running quickly, as the solution enables labs interested in automating processes.
To provide an innovative solution that is a turn-key package designed to meet the needs of biotech and pharmaceutical companies ready to launch an ELN project, Dell packages hardware, software and services. Along with CERF, the Rescentris ELN solution, the solution includes Dell’s LatitudeTM XT convertible tablets and PowerEdgeTM 2900 scalable server. Included are CERF seat licenses for up to 10 users along with a fully configured CERF server. A lab can get up and running quickly, with remote configuration and one day of onsite training from Rescentris. The solution can be scaled up to 50-75 users and additional seat licenses can be added. The CERF software is a secure, 21 CFR part 11-compliant system for electronic records and signatures that centralizes scientific content management and record keeping.
Researchers, by using an electronic lab notebook, are able to capture their data electronically. Helping to prevent repeats of the same experiments in different groups and driving better collaboration, this capability allows scientists to share information across their organization. Ultimately this can reduce the amount of time it takes to develop and bring a drug to market. Rather than on the actual notebook, the data is stored on a secure network which helps protect the intellectual property and makes it easy to store the data for long periods of time.
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