eLabJournal

Intuïtieve labjournaal tool

Pluspunten:

Intuïtief. Werkt altijd goed en zonder haperingen. Goede service

Minpunten:

Zoekfuncties en filters werken niet optimaal. Bij veel data van verschillende gebruikers is het lastig dingen terug te vinden. Ook in protocollen werkt zoeken niet altijd goed

Functionality and Superb Customer Support

Opmerkingen: Our overall experience with eLab Journal has been exceptional. We are glad we chose to partner with them because they were definitely the right choice! They have helped us immensely and we would not have achieved a successful project outcome without them.

Pluspunten:

Working with the team at eLab Journal to implement our LIMS and make enhancements as our laboratory has grown has been a wonderful experience. Everyone we have worked with is responsive and collaborative. The software itself has amazing functionality and provides the features we need to act as an efficient, high throughput testing laboratory.

Minpunten:

When we implemented the software in 2020, some of the menu items and navigation seemed disjointed and not exceptionally intuitive. eLab Journal has evolved since then and we have seen improvements. The team is also open to our feedback as system users.

Keeping Track of the Research

Opmerkingen: This has been a great experience. At first had only planned to use for single aspect of research project and now pushing for us to incorporate into other areas. Customer support has been excellent. Always quick to respond when have questions or requests, and so very willing to work with us to customize the system to our needs.

Pluspunten:

Although there was a learning process to using the system, it did not take more than a week for us to build the framework that needed for managing samples and recording experimental data. Have multiple users with different levels of comfort with technology and hearing more and more from group that so glad that set this up for this research project. Really appreciate that Microsoft Office integrated into system, not only for editing files but as sections within a entry. This has allowed users that do not have access to office to work with us with ease

Minpunten:

Lacking some options that know are available on other electronic notebook freeware (To Do Lists, Task assignment, Calendar, Messaging center, view only of integrating Microsoft office components, comment tracking, tags for indexing entries). One option that would love to have that seen in other electronic notebook software is the option to share study with outside user so can view (not edit) for defined period of time without using a licensed space. Would be happy if there was a limit on how many of these could exist at a time

Overwogen alternatieven: Labguru

Redenen om voor eLabJournal te kiezen: Needed a inventory system that allowed better handling of aliquots and lineage. The permission management system was better for the needs of the group. And that hardly anything is every truly gone, can track history of pretty much everything.

Overgestapt van: Labfolder

Redenen om over te stappen op eLabJournal: The customer service, the rep who set up our demo provided such good information. Was impressed that during the demo period (which was a month), he not only respond well to our questions but took our feedback and entered as requests for modification of the system. Demonstrated to us that would work with us to help us use the system to fit our particular needs

Product you can grow with

Opmerkingen: We leverage this tool to enable our IP documentation and trade secret processes. It is critical in our valuation and assessment of multiple processes across multiple species. It allows researchers to easily move between projects and scales well as our operations grow.

Pluspunten:

This product enables us to ensure a secure environment for our IP related data. It is also seamless across our different labs and allows us to easily move between species and topics. The tool has also been easy to accommodate our rapid growth in researchers over the years.

Minpunten:

There are some features like stylus, etc. that would be nice to have. But overall it meets the majority of our needs.

The development is stuck

Opmerkingen: I'm thinking about moving my group back to good old paper reporting. I have already started doing this for short-time students that come to the group as trainees.

Pluspunten:

When we bought into it, it seemed to be the most advanced and user friendly product on the marked

Minpunten:

Since we bought into it, the Journal is stuck in development or asks for additional money for features that should be integrated for molecular biology purposes.- still no possibility to use a stylus to annotate gel pictures or write entries. This would be to migrate from "paper book" to "electronic labbook" without loosing the ease of the "paper report".- gene bank files should be visible within the elab.