News & Events

2006

News & Events from 2006

2005 & Before

News & Event items archived - prior to 2005

Bika 1.2 'ISO 17025 Ready' demo on-line

The new Bika on-line demonstration installation features ISO 17025 functionality and in version 1.2.2 disguise, Plone 2.5

Bika 2 · QC and Worksheet template design invitation

Programming on Bika LIMS 2.0's Worksheet templates and QC module starts 1 March. It would be great to refine these designs with feedback from lab specialists wanting to contribute. Summarised designs have been uploaded to the LIMS 2 project page and the users' mailing list posted. You are invited to comment. Specifically challenging would be to design a Worksheet 'Template Engine' for lab managers to create and maintain worksheet templates in the simplest possible way

Bika LIMS 1.2.2 released on Plone 2.5

Bika LIMS 1.2.2 available for download on Sourceforge.net

Bika Wine 1.2 Lab Manual published

The Bika Laboratory Manual has been updated and integrated in the Help Centre

Bika Installation Manual published

The Bika Installation Manuals have been updated and integrated in the Help Centre

New Bika installation guides published

Due to questions arising from the user list, the Bika and Plone installation guides have been updated for Bika 1.2 and integrated at the Help Centre

SASEV.org live on Plone

Bika Lab Systems has deployed a Plone CMS Portal for the South African Society for Enology & Viticulture (SASEV) at www.sasev.org

BikaMail on-line. #5 - Tell it as it is

Current BikaMail #5, 'Tell it as it is', is our latest newsletter and the first under new title, BikaMail. 'Tell it as it is' and earlier newsletters are now available on-line and per news feed

Mining Weekly on Bika Fire Assay

"New information-management system to improve mineral analysis" - an article on Bika Fire Assay published on 23 March 2007 in Mining Weekly announces Bika's entry to the geology and mining sector and features an interview with Lemoene Smit, Bika project manager, analyst & designer

Bika at the OpenMRS Implementor's Group Meeting (Monkey Valley Resort, Cape Town, from 2007-04-21 14:00 to 2007-04-26 16:00)

The OpenMRS community and funders, the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the World Health Organization, the Fogarty International Centre, National Institutes of Health, USA, and the South African Medical Research Council, present an OpenMRS Implementers Meeting from 22-26 April 2007 at the Monkey Valley Resort, Cape Town, South Africa

3rd Annual Laboratory Management Conference (Park Hyatt, Rosebank, Johannesburg, from 2007-05-21 13:00 to 2007-05-21 13:45)

Bika Lab Systems presents

Bika 3rd Lab Management Conference presentation uploaded

Bika Lab Systems' presentation at the 3rd Annual Laboratory Management Conference, Johannesburg 21 May 2007

Plone the best overall Web CMS?

Its been a busy week in the news for Plone, the web content management (CMS) platform Bika is built on. Reinout van Rees blogged the exponential rise and diversity in the number of Plone sites and providers and then Plone came out tops in a study of 40 CMS products, both open source and proprietary, at CMSwatch.com

SA Spectroscopic Society, Western Cape (Namakwa Sands, Saldanha Bay, from 2007-06-21 10:00 to 2007-06-21 15:00)

 

Alpha testing Bika LIMS 2 under way

Bika LIMS 2 is now available as alpha test version for early evaluation and feedback by interested labs. LIMS 2 came through initial in-house testing with flying colours

Bika Health project starts

We are very happy to report that the project to customise our open source LIMS for health laboratory implementation has started

Bika CMS · Plone hosting and services

Bika Lab Systems provides Plone content management services and hosting to LIMS clients, and uses Plone extensively in-house. As secure on-line document repository and through products like Help and Software Centres at www.bikalabs.com. With our growing expertise, servers to spare and responding to increasing demand, Bika now brings stand-alone Plone hosting and CMS services actively to market

Minor Bika LIMS release

Imminent first release of Bika Interlab required modifications to the Bika LIMS 1.2 base it is skinned over. This is Bika LIMS 1.2.5, released today

SAWLA Interlab upgraded to 1.2

Soon to be released Bika Interlab 1.2 has been successfully rolled out at upgrade sponsors the South African Wine Laboratory Association

Bika Interlab 1.2 released

Bika Interlab 1.2 GPL release · Web-based open source proficiency testing software

Why LIMS? A Business Case

The benefits of professional open source LIMS

10 000 Bika Downloads

Our best wishes to everybody in the Bika community for 2008!

LIMS Inkosi 2.0.21

A new alpha release of Bika LIMS 2 Inkosi has been installed on-line for evaluation, version 2.0.21. Check back, we will regularly post news as we head towards a first official release

Python fastest growing programming language

According to the Tiobe Community Index - based on hits on major search engines - Python is now the seventh most popular programming language. Python had the largest increase in ratings of any language in 2007 and has become the de facto glue language at system level.

Bika Health at the SAHIA/OpenMRS/OSHCA conference (Elangeni Hotel, Durban, South Africa, from 2008-06-16 08:30 to 2008-06-20 17:00)

 

Bika Lab Systems hosts IAEA fellow (Cape Town, South Africa, from 2008-05-12 08:30 to 2008-05-23 16:00)

The IAEA Technical Cooperation Group sponsors Juan Chin Pampillo's fellowship at Bika Lab Systems in Cape Town, South Africa from 12 to 23 May 2008.

Bika Mail. Newsletter

Bika Mail 7. The Chief, a fellow and SaaS

Bika LIMS 2 Inkosi released

Inkosi hits the ether. First release is 2.1.0

Press Release: Bika LIMS 2.1 Inkosi open source release

Bika LIMS 2.1 Inkosi 'The Chief' is the next major public release of the professionally supported open source LIMS by Cape Town company Bika Lab Systems and was released 26 May on a general public license, free to download, install and use.

2nd Global LIS conference, Hanoi, Vietnam (Hanoi, Vietnam, from 2008-09-23 09:00 to 2008-09-26 16:00)

This meeting brings together countries operating under PEPFAR, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, deploying and implementing Laboratory Information Systems

Bika Health presentation at the 2nd Global LIS conference, Hanoi, Vietnam

By lemoene

16 000 Bika downloads

A big surge in downloads after the release of Bika LIMS 2 Inkosi saw the total pass the 15 000 mile stone unnoticed...

Bika Health Foundation established

Following earlier proposals to differentiate more clearly between Bika's open source LIMS community and commercial activities, Bika shareholders established the Bika Health Foundation to focus on health laboratory systems but with wider scope than LIMS only

Hanoi LIS conference

Bika Health Foundation director Lemoene Smit, LIMS analyst at Bika Lab Systems, introduced the newly established non-profit foundation at the 2nd Global LIS conference in Hanoi, Vietnam recently, presenting Bika's Health LIMS. He found time to meet health ministry delegates, talk open source LIMS and contribute to technical discussions

BBK SAWLA lab of the year

BBK, Bika's anchor client in Worcester, South Africa, finished in combined first position in the SA Wine Laboratory Association's inter-laboratory proficiency testing scheme for 2008. BBK shared the top spot with Wynlab Services, Wellington, from a group of 45 participating laboratories

DTI sponsors Bika Health LIMS

We are proud to announce to have received written confirmation that Bika Lab Systems was granted 50% of next phase Bika Health development cost by the SA Department of Trade and Industry's Support Programme for Industrial Innovation (SPII)

Bika Mail 08. Yes we can!

'Same same but different' - It's that time again, madly busy, another year. 10 December 2008

Bika sponsors SA Spectroscopy Society

SASEV, SAWLA and now SASS. The South African Spectroscopic Society joins Bika's portfolio of national scientific organisations

More Foss interfaces for BBK

Bika anchor client BBK commissioned the development of bi-directional interfaces for their new Foss WineScan™ and FIAStar™ instruments. These are to be completed in time for Vintage 2009 harvest

20 000 Bika OS LIMS downloads

The surge in Bika downloads is picking up after a rather long year-end hangover and passed 20 000 at the end of March

Inkosi LIMS 2.1.1 released

An update to the successful Bika Inkosi LIMS 2.1 has been released and the on-line demo upgraded

New LIMS branch Bika Water 1 in production

A Bika Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for water quality management, Bika Water 1, was taken into production at development sponsor City of uMhlathuze's laboratory in Richards Bay, South Africa. The LIMS will be made available for download on the General Public License shortly and a configuration of an on-line demonstration installation is under way

Instrumentation and Distribution Partnership

An exciting new partnership has been formed between Bika Lab Systems and Trident Instrumentation - suppliers of high quality Infrared Radiation instrumentation and service providers to Wine, Milk, Grain and Feed & Forage laboratories in both the government and commercial sectors

Bika Health at 4th annual OpenMRS implementers meeting (Monkey Valley Resort, Cape Town, South Africa, from 2009-09-13 08:30 to 2009-09-17 13:00)

A team of Bika developers will present the progress on Bika Health, our LIMS for public health laboratories - sampling, sample partitioning and preservation work flows, patient module and first steps towards an OpenMRS interface

OpenMRS LIMS Hackathon (Monkey Valley Resort, Cape Town, South Africa, from 2009-09-10 08:30 to 2009-09-10 16:30)

Bika and OpenMRS developers join forces to hack a Bika Health LIMS / OpenMRS interface

New Open Source LIMS discussion group

The Bika user list developed two distinct streams, sharing installation issues and another on general functionality. The first got too technical for many lab managers and LIMS analysts, and a Bika Open Source LIMS Analysis and Design discussion group has now been set up to continue these threads in layman terminology

MedInfo Connectathon (Cape Town, South Africa, from 2010-09-12 09:00 to 2010-09-15 17:00)

Bika lab systems demos Bika Health in an integrated environment, interfaced to EMR and instruments

WISA 2010 (Durban, South Africa, from 2010-04-18 09:00 to 2010-04-22 17:00)

The prestigious biennial WISA 2010 Conference and Exhibition will take place at the ICC in Durban in April 2010. The City of uMhlathuze are preparing 2 papers, Implementation of ISO 17025 in a municipal environment and Implementation of Open Source LIMS in a municipal environment, based on their experiences with Bika Water

Bika LIMS for Tribology

Analysis and design for Tribos 1, Bika's LIMS for Tribology labs, has been completed with client sponsorship by Exertus laboratories

Bika Health, OpenMRS interfaced

Following a pre-meeting 'hackathon', a Bika Health HL7 OpenMRS interface was successfully demonstrated at the 4th annual OpenMRS implementers meeting in Cape Town

IWEEE (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, from 2010-02-10 08:00 to 2010-02-12 19:00)

International Workshop on E-Health in Emerging Economies

IST-Africa 2010 (Durban, South Africa, from 2010-05-19 08:00 to 2010-05-21 17:00)

IST-Africa 2010 is the fifth in an Annual Conference Series which brings together senior representatives from leading commercial, government & research organisations across Africa and from Europe, to bridge the Digital Divide by sharing knowledge, experience, lessons learnt and good practice and discussing policy related issues

BIOSTEC 2010 (Valencia, Spain, from 2010-01-20 08:00 to 2010-01-23 17:00)

The 2nd International Workshop on Open Source in European Health Care: Crossing the Borders - OSEHC 2010, in conjunction with the 3rd International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies

Bika Health pilot in Suriname

A project to pilot Bika Health 0.2 interfaced to OpenERP and EMR Medical on a project at the University Hospital in Paramaribo, Suriname has been started

Bika LIMS 2.2 released

New Bika Inkosi LIMS release is available for download and our on-line demonstration installation updated