LabWare LIMS vs. ELN Market Share

Since LabWare added their ELN, occasionally someone will ask me how the LabWare market share has changed with the ELN added onto it versus the features they had just with the LIMS, itself.

I don't know the answer to that. Anyone selling anything will tell you their sales are great. So, of course, LabWare always talks positively about their sales of the ELN portion of the system. So, of course, we take all that with a grain of salt because that's just part of the natural order of the sales process.

However, I do sometimes hear of more and more projects that are using the ELN. For my own business, I can't say that I'm getting flooded with calls to work on the ELN portion of the system. But that could be because I'm known more for my LabWare LIMS expertise than my LabWare ELN expertise, which I'm pretty sure is the case.

Additionally, since I don't tend to do polls, I'm not gathering information that would help understand the marketplace distribution.

For those who want to implement the ELN portion of the LabWare system, if you're more in the Quality Control or Development side of things and already have a LabWare LIMS, you might want to take a quick look at competitive products just to make sure moving forward with the LabWare ELN portion matches the features you need closely-enough to make it worthwhile. But in working with the product, myself, I'll say that the knowledge you've built on the system is a strong building block toward implementing the ELN. There are always some gains to be had from having staff with a deep understanding of whatever system you're trying to implement. However, if you're going to do that, internally, it would be helpful to do some training with your people, because it is a large module to learn. Or, call me and I can do the work for you and your people won't have to sit through yet another class.  ;-)

Gloria Metrick
GeoMetrick Enterprises
http://www.GeoMetrick.com/