http://www.elnblog.com Electronic Lab Notebooks and related issues Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:49:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Unlike some vendors, we tend not to make a fanfare when we get new customers - partly because it gets a bit boring after a while, and partly because, well, that's a kind of "stretch things as far as you can" marketing we'd really not get into. However, we're also ... http://www.elnblog.com/2008/04/18/amphora-patentsafe-and-glycomar/ Embarrassingly, I have just realized I never did a blog post on our recent Frost & Sullivan award - the short version is yes, we're dead chuffed. I was interviewed by IQPC's Pharma IQ Community about this - you can read the full interview on their site, but here's the highlights.... ... http://www.elnblog.com/2007/08/19/interview-with-me-about-the-frost-sullivan-award/ We're announcing a new offering - the PatentSafe Starter Pack. This is specifically aimed at smaller, startup companies who are in a particularly difficult position: Money is tight Productivity is all-important The need for an ELN is perhaps greater than in a more established company Their IT infrastructure is often a bit ad-hoc, ... http://www.elnblog.com/2007/08/19/patentsafe-starter-pack/ We're recruiting one or two people for our UK office, to look after talking with possible customers, pre-sales. Most places would call this a "Sales" role, but to be honest we'd prefer to recruit outside of the traditional pool of sales people. Traditional sales doesn't seem to work in this ... http://www.elnblog.com/2007/07/24/were-recruiting/ I've been accused of being somewhat passionate about what we do, which is something I'd probably admit to with the qualifier that I consider it to be a feature not a bug - why do something you don't care about. Competition is good, because it means the industry is growing and ... http://www.elnblog.com/2006/11/01/marketing/ The upcoming US elections are causing a lot of people to focus on the use of electronic voting systems and the inherent issues that result. At one level this doesn't have a lot to do with using ELNs, but it is essentially the same problem - how do you use ... http://www.elnblog.com/2006/11/01/electronic-voting/ Occasionally I meet people who feel that a single, all-encompassing ELN "product" purchased from one vendor and rolled out to everyone will somehow tie their organisation together. Rarely do these projects actually get to the rollout stage, and when they do the hoped-for benefits are rather hard to spot. This entry ... http://www.elnblog.com/2006/09/14/loose-coupling-in-the-enterprise/ DRM is beginning to make an entrance into the Enterprise, and whilst at one level the technologies sound attractive I'm not sure the longer term, deeper consequences are all that palatable. I do wonder what the lawyers will think (because a Judge is unlikely to be impressed by arbitrary restrictions ... http://www.elnblog.com/2006/09/13/i-dont-think-the-enterprise-has-really-woken-up-to-drm-yet/ We booked our UK techies into RailsConf Europe 2006 and one of them can't make it.... so (assuming we're allowed to by the conference) we'd like to make the ticket available to someone as a small "thank you" to the Rails community. I guess we'd like to think that would ... http://www.elnblog.com/2006/08/05/railsconf-europe-ticket/ How interesting: "Open government meets IT": "Starting in mid-June, the District of Columbia would begin releasing operational data from a variety of city agencies to the Internet in several XML formats, including RSS and Atom." How cool would it be for instruments to make their results available as RSS/Atom feeds..... http://www.elnblog.com/2006/06/29/rssatom-feeds-of-data/