MSC-LIMS

What do you like best?

VERY affordable @ $750/seat/year for SQL version as of Feb 2019. Easy set-up. Tight integration with Microsoft Excel, so it is extremely easy to import instrument data or customize reports, Certificates of Analysis, etc. Supports warning and result limits, sample label printing, and other must-have functionality. Now supports Microsoft SQL Server, so very robust. You can buy a full version with source code if you wish to customize. It is very easy to understand the table structure, so I was able to create dashboards and pull-down menus to allow plotting any analyte results against any other results in Excel. The program author answers any questions you have promptly. Program has been sold for 20+ years so good history. We are going to adopt this at a second site.

What do you dislike?

It would be great if product would query Window size and automatically re-scale forms accordingly.

Adding more sophisticated plotting (cross-plotting) would be a plus.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

The author will provide a webinar where you can see how the product operates and ask any questions before committing. Also you need only buy one license to try out, you can add more once you are committed and have completed configuration.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Greatly increases availability of data by storing it on SQL server where it is more easily retrieved.

Also provides 'gates' for results by flagging them if outside warning and result limits.