2006

News & Events from 2006

Bika Newsletter · December 2005

On-line copy of our quarterly newsletter distributed Friday 9 December 2005. If you wish to receive future copies by e-mail, please send a request to subscribe@bikalabs.com

Bika in Spanish

After publication of the 'How to' translate Bika at the Bika SourceForge community site, a Spanish translation has been completed by Luis Diego Espinoza of the Laboratorio Nacional de Materiales y Modelos Estructurales - Universidad de Costa Rica and the dictionary made available for download

Bika in Portuguese

A Bika Portuguese translation has been completed by Nuno R. Pinhão of the Physics & Nuclear Protection and Safety Departments at the Portuguese Nuclear and Technological Institute and the dictionary made available for download

Bika LIMS 1.1 released

Improved performance and easy customisation for all sample types

Bika 1.1 Manuals available

The Bika 1.1 Laboratory Manual and Schema Editor How To released

Bika 1.1 Demo now on-line

The Bika on-line demonstration installation has been upgraded to version 1.1.3 and Plone 2.1.2

Bika Help & Software Centres launched

In further effort to enhance usability at bikalabs.com, Plone's Help Centre has been implemented as easy-to-use central repository for all Bika support and documentation needs. Latest Bika product release information is made available on Software Centre

Bika LSP and integrated CMS live at Cape Winelab

Bika's LIMS Service (LSP) has been taken into production at Cape Winelab in Stellenbosch, featuring Bika Wine 1.1.3 and integrated content management. Capewinelab.com is hosted on Bika's Plone servers in Cape Town

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Bika · CMS based - the next generation

Web enabled LIMS has been around for nearly a decade now. Bika represents the next generation - CMS based LIMS

Bika LIMS 1.2 - ISO ready

Both Bika's generic and Wine LIMS branches will be ISO 17025 ready in next release Version 1.2 going into testing 1 May and production 1 June. It will be released under the general public lisense soon after

Bika Interlab - LIMS for proficiency testing

Development has started on new product Bika Interlab, a web based inter-laboratory comparison LIMS, for the South African Wine Laboratory Association (SAWLA) to be implemented June 2006

Bika Wine 1.2 'Accreditation Ready' in production

Bika Wine 1.2 has been taken into production at BBK. To be released on GPL

Bika LIMS 1.2 "ISO 17025 Ready" available for download

Bika LIMS 1.2 press release

BBK accredited using Bika Wine 1.2

Bika anchor client, BBK has been accredited as ISO 17025 conformant by SANAS, the South African National Accreditation System. To comply with the standard's LIMS requisites, BBK relies on Bika Wine 1.2 from Bika Lab Systems

SAWLA Seminar (Percheron Hall, Elsenburg, South Africa, from 2006-08-31 09:00 to 2006-08-31 16:00)

Bika Lab Systems presents our LIMS for the wine and beverages industry, Bika Wine 1.2 'Accreditation ready', at the annual seminar of the South African Wine Laboratory Association. A question & answer session about Bika Interlab 1.0, reviewed by SAWLA members in August, commences after lunch at 14:00

Bika Fire Assay model published

Version 1 of Bika's Fire Assay design has been published as html wireframe model and discussion invited towards refining it

Plone Conference 2006 - The Bika LIMS (Seattle Center Northwest Rooms in Seattle, Washington USA, from 2006-10-25 00:00 to 2006-10-27 17:00)

Showing how Plone was developed into a full-featured Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)

Bika Wine 1.2 "ISO 17025 Ready" released

Bika Wine 1.2 press release

Bika LIMS 2.0 development starts

Bika Lab Systems has started development on Bika LIMS 2.0 for Quantum Analytical Services. Implementation is scheduled for March 2007 and release as Bika trunk on the GPL soon after, followed by upgrades to the Bika branches

Bika Interlab 1.0 live at SAWLA

The South African Wine Laboratory Association's inter-laboratory comparison LIMS has been taken into production and wil be released on the open source general public license soon