EasyAsk: Make The Most of Laboratory Automation

By integrating your existing LIMS with EasyAsk, a user-friendly business intelligence (BI) tool, you can use stored data from your existing database to analyse your laboratory's output, productivity and profitability.

A laboratory information management system (LIMS) can improve your laboratory's turnaround time and ensure customer satisfaction by automating time-consuming processes. With a LIMS like QBCon's Lab-i, you can keep track of samples, from the moment a batch is entered into the system, right through to when the invoice is issued.

Automating processes, tests and invoicing in a laboratory can save you thousands in labour and time. What most labs don't know is that your LIMS system can provide the platform for improved business decisions.

By doing a natural English search similar to a search on an Internet search engine like Google, EasyAsk will access all available databases, analyse the available data and draw a report based on real-time information. EasyAsk will further suggest searches relevant to your search, to ensure that you have access to comprehensive information when making business decisions.

For example, laboratory managers can type, "How many samples were pH-tested over the past four months?" in the EasyAsk search bar. EasyAsk will scan through the LIMS database and draw a report, stating the exact amount of samples and also suggest related searches, such as, "How many pH samples had to be re-tested?".

EasyAsk also offers a fully customisable dashboard function that is updated in real-time. By keeping the dashboard open, laboratory managers can be informed of the exact amount of tests done and samples circulating in the laboratory.

Automating laboratory processes with a LIMS is the first step in ensuring that your laboratory turns a profit and increases productivity. EasyAsk can guarantee that you get the most out of the automation of your laboratory by providing information crucial to sound decision-making in real time.