Competitive and financial pressures are forcing pharma and biotech companies to cut costs, increase productivity and minimize compliance risks. In this webinar, we’ll discuss how organizations are making transformational productivity changes by replacing paper-based processes in development and quality labs with a novel lab informatics system. Several case studies will be presented, illustrating how organizations are reporting 25%+ cost/productivity improvements, 50-75% review/approval cycle time reductions, and 10-fold reductions in compliance risk.

In this webinar you’ll learn how

• ELNs replace paper for method and procedure development and validation
• Automated lab execution systems create risk-free QA/QC execution
• Using common standards across early development into early manufacturing opens up new opportunities to improve productivity, compliance, QbD and collaboration with external partners
• Symyx Notebook by Accelrys, SmartLab Lab Execution, gmpLIMS and the Accelrys Enterprise Platform can change the way you conduct business

Historically, the life science industry (pharmaceutical, generic and biotech companies) adopted a LIMS strategy for capturing and organizing operational quality control data. A typical LIMS project provides a place to manage samples and specifications and create reporting/trending documentation. Today 70%+ of the operational costs of quality reside in the human resources executing SOPs, test methods as well as the review personnel to insure the integrity of the data and workflows. These resources maintain a hybrid paper-based processes with transcription/data entry into the LIMS with little automation involved. The LIMS is primarily a “management/supervisory” tool, but does not improve productivity at the workflow/task levels by the large numbers of analysts and operators.

Drug manufacturer are now tasked with significant cost cutting initiatives while improving compliance risks. These issues generally are at odds with each other in a paper-based or a hybrid paper/automation-based system. This briefing outlines a LES (lab automation system) designed specifically for cGMP quality operations that incorporates the LIMS management functions and adds an electronic workflow execution system with full lab instrument integrations. The system is used by dozens of top tier pharma, generic and biotech companies yielding significant (25%+) productivity and cost improvements, 50-75% review/approval cycle time reductions and reduced operational deviations (ie. compliance risk reduction). Several case studies outlining pharma and biotech global implementations of this LES architecture will be presented.

Convergence – con-ver-gence : the act of converging and esp. moving toward union or uniformity; independent development of similar characters often associated with similarity of habits or environment.

Over the past twenty years, laboratory and plant data in cGMP operations has been predominantly capture through a paper-based process or hybrid process of paper and automation. IT groups have been challenged by a significant array of disparate software applications including ERP (SAP), LIMS, MES and more recently Electronic Notebooks (ELN’s). These “systems” required significant custom coded integration efforts to attempt some level of automation for ease of workflow. The result often involved a multi-year project, costing millions (and often tens of millions) of dollars with significant compliance related validation costs that further increase the total cost of ownership for the resultant “cGMP IT System”.

In preparation for the next decade, innovative life science companies are actively planning to “harmonize” their global cGMP IT systems. Their goals are to gain significant productivity improvements, dramatic cost reductions and improved infrastructure dynamics through a clear and compelling IT platform convergence strategy. In many companies this results in a tiered structure with SAP, a thin-LIMS and a cGMP Electronic Notebook System for lab and batch records. For some, it is an elimination of the LIMS layer all together by utilizing the QM module of SAP and the administration modules in the cGMP ELN. Either way, reported results include 25%+ cost/productivity improvements, 50%+ cycle time reductions, the elimination of paper in the process and assured compliance documentation. This web briefing will outline the key issues involved in this convergence strategy and offers example case studies outlining the long term total cost of ownership advantages of a tiered IT solution that functionally merges SAP, LIMS, EBR (electronic batch records) and ELN’s (electronic lab notebooks).

Learn how the Accelrys ELN can improve your personal productivity and ability to collaborate with others. In this webinar we'll demonstrate how an ELN can help you

• Save time, reduce mistakes and ease compliance burdens
• Integrate with balances, instruments and systems
• Easily plan, execute and report experiments
• Quickly find and share information

Leading universities now view the introduction of electronic lab notebooks as a strategic initiative to stay in the scientific forefront. Join this one hour webinar and learn how iLabber can help you improve productivity and promote knowledge sharing in academic research labs.

Presented by Mats Kihlén, Director R&D at Contur.

Contur.com

ELNs are literal replacements for the bound paper notebooks traditionally used by lab personnel. They hold specific experimental data that reflect minute-by-minute, documentable lab activities. ELNs can prove to be very useful to help design experiments, document and archive all data, share data with colleagues anywhere in the world, meet regulatory audits, and provide a legal basis for generating intellectual property.

Our panel of experts will talk about the next-generation of ELNs and their dynamic features, serving various applications in the organization. They will also outline a successful implementation strategy, addressing issues such as the relationship between the ELN and other laboratory information systems, the functionalities needed to support different scientific disciplines and the organizational needs related to knowledge management and financial investment.

As an Attendee You Will Learn:

• What an ELN can do
• How it can benefit your lab
• How to choose the right supplier
• How to effectively implement it

Disconnected informatics point solutions drive inefficiencies in the lab- to-plant product lifecycle. Integrated and convergent informatics systems accelerate experiment and sample cycle times, reduce experimentation and optimize scientific workflows to improve scientific innovation and productivity. By connecting scientists, information, instruments and software, these convergent systems help scientists execute projects, studies, experiments and sample analysis more efficiently.

What you'll learn in this webinar:

The latest scientific informatics environments from Accelrys and Thermo Fisher Scientific improve scientific innovation, productivity and collaboration by improving efficiency in:

• Capturing raw data, sample information and
  experimental results
• Searching, browsing, analyzing and reporting
  experimental information
• Orchestrating and exchanging information between
  existing systems

In the drive to bring superior, cost-effective products to market faster, today's formulators are under intense pressure to quickly design, analyze and scale-up experiments. Learn how you can simplify and accelerate formulation development using the Accelrys ELN, as well as improve data consistency, collaboration and reporting.

In this webinar, we'll demonstrate how Symyx Notebook by Accelrys can help you

• Minimize paperwork and data transcription errors
• Easily find, re-use and share knowledge
• Improve collaboration with analytical and process teams

Cutting and pasting print-outs into a paper lab notebook can consume up to 25% of a scientist's workday, reducing the time left for science. Eliminating scissors and glue is reason enough for equipping scientists with an electronic lab notebook (ELN), however, the true value of the ELN extends far beyond replacing paper.

Committing to an ELN provides a more collaborative, productive, and insightful electronic lab environment. In the electronic lab, scientists can quickly process and analyze data from multiple sources in multiple contexts. More importantly, they can shift their focus from formatting information to interpreting results and making decisions faster. In this webinar, Johnson & Johnson describe how they implemented an ELN in their large and small molecule API, and their drug product and analytical groups, and how these teams are working together more efficiently and productively as a result.

This webinar will provide information on:

• Approaches to ELN implementation, including integrating data from multiple sources
• Using data warehousing in the ELN to mine and extract more scientific knowledge
• Accelerating product development using standard recipes within the ELN

What you'll learn in this webinar:

• Value of the ELN in sharing information across formulation, process and analytical scientists
• Role of the ELN as part of a broader strategy around data warehousing
• Lessons learned regarding ELN deployment across a functionally and geographically diverse set of scientists

With scientists often challenged by paper documentation, tedious error-prone manual processes and massive volumes of information, electronic lab notebook adoption is taking the scientific community by storm. The Pfizer electronic lab notebook (eLN) project was launched in the Pharmaceutical Sciences division in 2006 and the eLN is now used by hundreds of scientists in multiple locations. In this webinar, Pfizer shares their experience in selecting and implementing an eLN for use by analytical chemists in both regulated and non-regulated laboratory environments.

Topics covered in this webinar:

• Defining the business, technical and human objectives of the eLN project
• Successful approaches to eLN system configuration and tools to speed implementation
• Value seen after eLN implementation

What you'll learn in this webinar:

• The importance of a close customer/vendor partnership in producing a better eLN
• Engaging the user base in evaluating and prioritizing eLN functionality
• Tips to ensure successful eLN development and deployment enterprise-wide

The Accelrys electronic lab notebook (ELN) now enables access to Pipeline Pilot, offering scientists capabilities that accelerate experiment design, execution and analysis from within the ELN.  In this webinar we'll take a closer look at how Symyx Notebook by Accelrys and Pipeline Pilot work together to enhance productivity for scientists. We'll show you how Pipeline Pilot's library of re-usable scientific components can help you

• Rapidly deliver new capabilities to scientists using GUI development tools
• Exploit experiment design, analysis and reporting functions in the ELN to improve productivity
• Gain new insights into experiments through scientific analytics

Learn how ELNs can help process chemists deliver cost-effective, high-yield processes with minimal environmental impact. In this webinar we'll demonstrate how Symyx Notebook by Accelrys can help you

• Accelerate and optimize synthetic route selection
• Reduce the number of experiment cycles
• Speed scale-up processes to glass, pilot and manufacturing plants
• Easily find, re-use and share process knowledge

Learn how the Accelrys ELN enables drug development teams to  increase operational agility. In this webinar we’ll show you how an ELN can help you

• Increase efficiency by eliminating tedious, error-prone processes
• Improve collaboration between analytical, process and formulations teams
• Simplify compliance using standardized processes

And two more you’ll learn about during our webinar!

The latest release of the Accelrys ELN includes powerful new capabilities to accelerate experiment design, execution and analysis of experiments. In this webinar we'll demonstrate how Symyx Notebook by Accelrys

• Integrates with Pipeline Pilot, improving data analytics and reporting
• Connects with Isentris, enabling cross-experiment data access to enhance and speed decisions
• Simplifies and automates formulations development to improve consistency and design of experiments
• Enables collaborative workflow in R&D

Learn how the Accelrys ELN can improve your personal productivity and ability to collaborate with others. In this webinar we'll demonstrate how an ELN can help you

• Save time, reduce mistakes and ease compliance burdens
• Integrate with balances, instruments and systems
• Easily plan, execute and report experiments
• Quickly find and share information