Elevating the Role of Laboratory Informatics to Assist Mission Critical Decision Making in the Enterprise

Barriers to Making Effective Business Decisions

One of the key challenges faced by life science companies today is the inability to turn the vast amount of laboratory data generated into useful information that enables management at all levels of the organisation to make timely and effective decisions. With multiple applications across the enterprise generating reams of data that sit in separate silos, aggregating and mining this data is a very real and complex problem. Many companies still use manual processes for collecting, analysing and reporting this data; oftentimes the reports that distil this mountain of data into relevant information are extremely tedious to create, taking scientists away from the work of science and thereby losing time and money performing administrative report generation instead of furthering the scientific work of the lab. And because data formats and applications are inconsistent and not well integrated, there has been no coherent way for scientists to aggregate all of their work in one place. All of these are barriers to making effective business decisions.

The World of Laboratory Informatics is Changing

As life science laboratories look to streamline the flow of information, living with multiple disparate systems with minimal to no integration is no longer an option. Thermo Fisher Scientific’s long standing commercial
partnerships enable us to develop strategies that reflect the real needs of complex businesses today, and we are working with our customers to elevate the role of the laboratory into the stream of the enterprise
decision making process. We are engaging with our customers to facilitate management level discussions about the necessity of integrating all of the sources of potential data, including laboratory instrumentation,
informatics software like LIMS, CDS and ELN, enterprise systems like MES, PIMS and ERP, enterprise communications tools like SharePoint, BizTalk or document management systems like NextDocs and Documentum,
thereby elevating the role of the laboratory in the day-to-day mission critical decisions required of management throughout the enterprise. Integrating the enterprise will facilitate better planning, data quality,
collaboration, and end-to-end report generation, all with the goal of providing management dashboard views of key business metrics that are essential to effectively run their operations. This means that management
will have the critical data they need before, not after, any point of crisis and it also means early insight into how drugs or compounds are progressing in the pipeline on a routine basis.

Introducing Thermo Scientific Connects: Elevating the Role of Laboratory Informatics into the Enterprise

Thermo Scientific Connects is a new concept aimed at bridging the gap between laboratory generated data and the enterprise level information that is required for mission critical management decisions. Our company is uniquely positioned to offer this comprehensive solution set, which is comprised of a combination of Thermo Scientific instruments, LIMS and CDS software, technologies and services, and capitalises on our ongoing partnerships with industry leaders such as Microsoft, SAP and Oracle, as well as members of our Global Partner Alliance program.

By offering an end-to-end solution that facilitates the integration of various instruments and systems, along with the interoperability necessary to transform data into relevant business drivers, we are able to help our customers expand the business of science from the laboratory throughout the enterprise. This integration of Thermo Scientific Informatics solutions with a variety of enterprise systems is particularly relevant for life science
companies in today’s business climate where near instantaneous response is required to know the source of potential risk, to take steps to mitigate that risk and to continuously protect the consumer. It is therefore critical for any integration strategy to bring key knowledge originating in the laboratory to management at all levels of the enterprise.

Furthermore, with increased pressure to cut costs and shorten the pipeline lifecycle, companies are looking for tools that allow them to better communicate, make decisions faster and report out on how compounds are progressing in drug development. At Thermo Fisher, we are uniquely positioned to help life science customers respond with more certainty to the many unforeseen challenges that can often make or break a company.
We believe it’s within our power and our responsibility to lead the market in transforming laboratory data into relevant business drivers for those companies committed to the advancement and integrity of science, and to the health and safety of the world we live in.

For more information about
Thermo Scientific Connects, please visit: www.thermo.com/connects or email us at: marketing.informatics@thermofisher.com