‘‘We see growing interest of healthcare testing labs, Pharmaceutical QC and R&D labs in implementing next-gen lab automation solutions''
Bio Spectrum|July 2021
US-based Abbott Informatics, formerly known as STARLIMS, is one of the companies with a long and established presence in the space of lab automation. Taking pride in offering the world class technological solutions, the company has recently announced the launch of STARLIMS Quality Manufacturing Solution QM12.2 which is built on the latest STARLIMS Technology V12 platform, along with STARLIMS SDMS (Scientific Data Management System) V12.2. To find out more about the company’s automated offerings in India, BioSpectrum spoke to Pradeep Nagisetty, Regional Sales Manager - India & Sub Continent, Abbott Informatics - STARLIMS, Hyderabad.
Dr Manbeena Chawla
‘‘We see growing interest of healthcare testing labs, Pharmaceutical QC and R&D labs in implementing next-gen lab automation solutions''

Pradeep Nagisetty, Regional Sales Manager India & Sub Continent, Abbott Informatics STARLIMS, Hyderabad

Can you tell us about the major product releases of STARLIMS since 2020?

It’s the result of regular collaborations with our fantastic customer base, allowing us to hear from those that will benefit the most from this. We then take into consideration the overall market trends to enable our R&D and product teams to incorporated this feedback into new product releases, technology upgrades, critical bug fixes, data integrity improvement, performance improvements and cyber security enhancements. Our commitment to continual releases and improvements provides our customers with a LIMS solution that will remain relevant.

Since 2020, we have already released two minor versions of STARLIMS QM solution for the pharmaceutical and other manufacturing industries. We offer an Automated Validation Framework and Testing Kit that reduce the time, cost, resources and complexity over the manual testing methods. With STARLIMS QM V12.2 released in April 2021, we have brought new integration capabilities – SAP4/HANA Integration, interface with Biovia Draw and Biovia Direct for chemical structures, Thermo Chromeleon 7.3 CDS interface upgrade, Waters Empower 3 FR5 CDS interface upgrade.

This year we have the new SDMS product – Scientific Data Management System. A standalone SDMS software that helps with automatic lab equipment integration, raw data and process data capturing, data storage in folders, search and reporting, long term data storage and archival, assuring highest data integrity in the regulatory labs.

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