Why LIMS?
The benefits of web based open source LIMS
Using information available on the Internet, the purpose of these pages, is to explain LIMS benefits in terms of money, time and resources, over the full lifetime of the system and totalling the cost of ownership
Table of contents
Summary
Totalling the costs of LIMS ownership
Benefits through resource optimisation
Key benefit areas
So why LIMS?
Why web based?
Web based not Web enabled
Why professional open source?
Open source TCO
Why Bika?
References
About Transcription Errors
LIMS business case
Open Source TCO and ROI
Version 1.1, Lemoene Smit, 25 November 2007. Copyright Bika Lab Systems