Customer Success Stories: Promium

The partnership integrates P-Wave's LabCORE with PROMIUM's ELEMENT DATASYSTEM, a LIMS. The result allows PROMIUM to offer its' clients P-Wave's LabCORE product for their document and records management needs. According to Buddy Wilson, PROMIUM's President, "This state-of-the-art program empowers the laboratory to electronically store data from various sources and to attach the data to reports, based on each client's requirements. Contents of the stored files are not limited to just raw data, but also include chromatogram and spectral snapshots. Currently many laboratories use valuable, time-consuming human resources to generate such data packages. With this offering, laboratories using ELEMENT can now automatically collate, paginate, and report their analytical and instrument data with the corresponding spectral representation to their clients, at the click of a button. This reduces the laboratory's dependency on valuable human resources, making the LabCORE offering a truly powerful tool."

How it Works:
Promiums' LIMS - Element DataSystem - intercepts extracted image data and associated metadata such as sample ID or instrument ID from an instrument data steam. Element then creates an image file that is stored in the Element database. A scheduled process inspects this database and when a new image file is detected XML-RPC is used to upload the image and its associated metadata to the LabCORE document management system. LabCORE then stores this image in its internal database and catalogs the associated metadata in its internal search engine to facilitate retrieval later. The advanced features of the LabCORE document management system such as digital signatures and document audit trail are now available for use with the image document.

Element DataSystems can also retrieve these image documents for integration into the reports produced by the Element LIMS. Element DataSystems uses an XML-RPC process to query the LabCORE database with search criteria associated with the required documents. LabCORE then uses XML-RPC to return the image documents associated with the search criteria to the Element LIMS.