BioRails Cascade

BioRails Cascade is an enterprise request fulfilment and workflow solution. BioRails Cascade has been designed to address both the strategic need to track and monitor high level project progress with a solution for the tactical demands of delivering results to project teams in the most efficient and resource effective way.

BioRails Cascade delivers the following benefits

increase productivity
reduce unnecessary experimentation
improve coordination and collaboration between teams
remove tedious tracking and reporting tasks
automate routine progression decisions

Requests - Project teams drive the research process by submitting 'request items' to service queues.

Fulfilment - Laboratory managers review their queues in order to organise research activities in the most efficient manner to deliver results back to the requesting project teams for decision making.

Tracking - to make a request for work a list of request items (usually compounds, libraries or targets) is submitted to a collection of services (usually assays or studies) with a required date and priority. After submission the requester can track the status of the request and when complete, retrieve the results.

Integrative - This integrative solution works across existing information systems such as LIMS and ELNs supporting the scientists with tools for scheduling, planning and coordinating the workload amongst teams and individuals.

Cascade management - Project leaders can monitor progress of their requests and track the overall status of the research cascade. Smooth transition of requests and tasks between different teams and individuals reduces the overall time for decision making increasing productivity and efficiency of the overall process.

Read more about the request fulfilment solution

The Request fulfilment and workflow product is being launched as a new product called 'BioRails Cascade'. We are working with a multinational pharmaceutical company to deliver the first system which will be in production at the start of 2010.

If you'd like to understand more about the concepts behind BioRails Cascade we refer you to presentations at the IQPC ELN and Advanced Laboratory Solutions conference in Brussels 2009 discussing the next steps for ELN.

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