Informatics Services
The Right Partner
Part of any organization's digital transformation strategy in the lab needs to include partnering with a technology provider that can bring in domain expertise and technology to help supplement in-house teams and bring a fresh perspective into the team. This helps ensure sufficient resources and expertise are available to maintain momentum and deliver value promptly to retain the attention and support of stakeholders and C-Suite leaders.
Xtellia understands this well and has built a team with the right balance of technology and domain expertise as well as a deep understanding of value creation, data integrity, and governance.
Consulting
To ensure the right equipment and technology stack is selected for your project - our team engages at the ideation stage of the project to gather and validate requirements, participate in the design process to ensure functional and technical requirements are part of the selection process to ensure alignment with your lab digitization strategy. Xtellia specializes in developing strategies and roadmaps to realize the Digital Lab of the future from end to end.
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Requirements gathering and validation.
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Platform/Vendor/Equipment Selection
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Solution development and integration
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Design and functional specifications development and execution
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Validation protocols generation and execution
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Staff Augmentation and Capabilities development
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Strategy & Road-mapping
Design
Achieving the Digital Lab of the future starts with a well-crafted strategy and roadmap based on validated requirements and support for the initiative at the C-Suite level. Such an endeavor demands the commitment of the executive board and appropriate funding. The initiative must be followed by a robust design that includes the To-be process and Operating Model, as well as Data, Information, and Reference Architectures that identify Systems of Record, equipment integrations, and instrumentation. Every instrument and system in the lab needs to be considered as candidates to be integrated and this consideration needs to carry on to the procurement process to ensure all components of the solution can fit together. The To-be process and Operating Model are imperative to the success of the solution to ensure that it serves the needs of the organization and can scale as the business needs evolve. The data schema of the solution needs to represent the process and operating model to ensure fitness, enhance user experience, and scalability.
Failing to incorporate these elements into the design results in added complexity and project cost and ultimately in a solution that fails to deliver the proposed value and functionality.
The design phase must also take into consideration system interfaces and underlying frameworks and best practices. It is easy to fall into trying to solve every problem beyond the actual system requirements to deliver a fully functional and compliant solution in time and within budget.
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Business process mapping
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Process optimization
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System evaluation, selection, and implementation
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Owner's representative
Development
The right design is the foundation for a robust solution and a successful implementation. The development process is also greatly simplified if the design incorporates automation-by-design (AbD), takes instrument and system interfaces into account, and it takes out-of-the-box features and capabilities of instruments and systems into the design process thereby enabling the end solution to be built faster and with less testing of new functionality.
During the development process, the solution is optimized further by the standardization of processes and operations and the development of building blocks, recipe and workflow templates to be leveraged for a particular solution as well implementations across the site and potentially across sites.
The development of such templates simplifies the overall solution, documentation, and validation and thus results in sustained value generation across the site and enterprise.
It is also of critical importance in ensuring compliance with user requirements to demonstrate the solution components to the user and stakeholders frequently and incorporate their input before finalizing the development process.
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Programming and Configuration of multiple platforms
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Standard Building Blocks
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Data management
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Custom development
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System integration
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On-premise, hybrid and cloud data storage systems
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Legacy system migration
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Data migration
Deployment
The deployment process requires a methodical approach that focuses on demonstrating compliance with design requirements by exercising the operating model, every path of a subset of representative product definitions and/or operating modalities, designed to achieve the desired result while allowing the flexibility for testing, fixing bugs, and quick functionality fixes to take place concurrently and help prepare the solution for validation.
Allowing the flexibility to test and make corrections to the solution in a production environment enables an efficient commissioning and remediation process, a smooth and efficient deployment and validation process that shows progress and keeps stakeholders and team members motivated and engaged in the process and meets or exceeds project deliverable constraints such as schedule and budget.
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Authoring & execution of FAT, SAT, and IOPQ protocols
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System and equipment-interfaces
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System testing and start-up
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System validation
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Training
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Ongoing Support
Support
Regardless of the maturity level of your digital enterprise - counting on expert support from your technology partner not only through the project lifecycle but through the digital platform adoption and lifecycle management process is imperative to achieve the right balance between full-time staff resources and external partner support.
It isn't always cost-effective to staff up for picks and valleys at the same level. Leveraging partners to help smooth staffing for the picks is a good strategy that also helps strengthen the partnership and creates continuity upon which trust is built.
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Hyper care support
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BU Technical Support
Technology
We work on some of the most common informatics platforms in industry. However, we are platform and vendor agnostic and will work on your platform of choice based on its suitability to your process and overall project success factors to ensure satisfaction and maximum value generation for your business.
The expertise and methodologies we employ are also vendor and platform agnostic and can be adopted universally.
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LabVantage ELN, LES, SDMS, and Advanced Analytics
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Thermo Fisher Scientific SampleManager™ LIMS, SDMS and LES software
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Scitara DLX™ plug-and-play connectivity
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BIOVIA ONE Lab
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STARLIMS
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LabWare LIMS
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Waters CDM
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Lonza WinKQCL® Endotoxin Detection & Analysis Software
Integrations
One of the ultimate goals of informatics is to automate lab operations to maximize process efficiency by automating repetitive tasks from end to end of lab processes and allocating the workforce to more value-added operations that cannot be fully automated. Informatics Systems interact with instruments, equipment, systems, and end-users to execute the lab operations process on the lab floor. Information systems generate and require as input important data and information to/from other systems on the Lab Operations Management level, the Enterprise, and even the Cloud, which require horizontal and vertical integrations to help build the ultimate value chain. That can lead to greater efficiencies and change traditional lab operations and relationships among analysts, scientists, suppliers, producers, and customers—as well as between human and machine.
We possess extensive experience integrating with other systems to build robust and flexible solutions that deliver maximum value by enabling operations through bidirectional electronic data exchange to realize your digital ecosystem.
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