LabCollector LIMS/ELN vs. LabWare LIMS vs. Labguru vs. SoftLinx Comparison


LabCollector LIMS/ELN AgileBio	LabWare LIMS LabWare	Labguru Cenevo	SoftLinx Hudson Robotics
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About AgileBio develops and markets the innovative and flexible LIMS solution "LabCollector". Over the past 24 years, AgileBio has continued to develop LabCollector as an innovative solution to provide collaboration and processing tools that improve laboratory productivity and traceability. AgileBio combines the skills of laboratory experts (with PhDs) and software developers to continually bring new features in close dialogue with laboratory expectations. AgileBio has served over 1200 labs worldwide. We propose IT solutions and hardware (scanners, labels, printers, etc.) for labs in R&D, clinical trials, analytical, medical, quality control, GxP, and for various industries (biotech, pharma, food and beverage, etc.). LabCollector is an all-in-one flexible and intuitive LIMS/LIS/ELN software, built to organize, centralize and track reagents, samples, tests, experiments, workflows, lab data and processes, with full ISO/FDA compliance.	About 14,000 laboratories. 125 countries. 98% customer satisfaction! Improve your lab's productivity, throughput, efficiency, data integrity, and compliance with LabWare's suite of laboratory automation solutions. LabWare offers flexible deployment options. Laboratories who are eager to deploy within 30 days can choose the cost-optimized + fully validated SaaS LIMS that contains best practice workflows. Laboratories that need a fully customizable enterprise-level LIMS/ELN can choose between flexible cloud or self-hosted deployment options. LabWare users enjoy world class features such as: lot management, sample management, stability management, environmental monitoring, instrument interfacing, workflows and dashboards, inventory management, COAs, barcoding, and much more!	About Labguru is a secure, cloud-based Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), LIMS and informatics platform which offers a complete solution for life science research and industry. It records and manages laboratory data and inventory, includes molecular biology tools and chemistry tools, enables automation of the lab, insight into lab data making labs run more efficiently. With Labguru, scientists can design experiments and workflows, capture structured and unstructured data, manage projects, and share their work. Customizable experiment templates, integration of protocols, SOPs, and other cutting-edge features help to increase data quality, streamline workflows and reduce costs. Labguru is available on desktops and mobile devices via the cloud. Labguru is part of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and serves over 100,000 scientists worldwide from startups, universities, research institutes up to some of the largest pharma companies.	About SoftLinx™ Laboratory automation scheduling software is a powerful multitasking, dynamic scheduling software package for planning and running automated laboratory workcells. It is designed control all the instruments in an automated workcell. It makes the programming and operation of lab automation easy for lab personnel, yet flexible enough for custom modification by programmers. The SoftLinx lab automation scheduling software library includes software plug-ins for integrating over 200 instruments made by different manufactures into your lab workcell. The user interface includes a drag and drop flow chart-like interface which makes it easy to build a protocol that takes maximum advantage of your instrument configuration. Individual steps can be added, customized or removed, and series of independent or interdependent methods can be defined. Programming control can be added to introduce conditions to the flow of the protocol.
Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Supported Linux Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Supported Chromebook Supported	Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Supported iPhone Supported iPad Supported Android Supported Chromebook Not Supported	Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported	Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Not Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Audience For people working in research laboratories, biotechs, pharma, clinical trials, CRO, test labs... Targets academic (e.g. institutes, universities) and industries (e.g. biotechs, core facilities...), and many other types of laboratories.	Audience The global leader in LIMS and ELN for over 30 years with 98% customer satisfaction! 14,000 laboratories across 125 countries trust LabWare to streamline their laboratory workflows.	Audience Organizations that need a comprehensive lab data management solution	Audience Laboratories and research companies requiring an automation scheduling software solution
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported	Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported	Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported	Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Supported	API Offers API Not Supported	API Offers API Supported	API Offers API Not Supported
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Pricing 400€/user/year Pricing depends on the number of users and options. Free Version Supported Free Trial Supported	Pricing No information available. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Not Supported	Pricing To be determined with customer after understanding specifications Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Supported	Pricing No information available. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Not Supported
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		Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Labguru is so customizable. We could relatively quickly and easily set it up for our specific needs. The ability to setup protocol templates that can be used to start new experiment pages and the ability to insert forms for information that needs to be consistently logged in experiments has made it much easier for us to log data consistently and to make our workflows more consistent and reliable. The customer service is also unparalleled - every interaction has been positive and response times are short. Labguru is very user friendly. Although there are still minor things to be tweaked, I like the appearance of the LIMS as a whole and how easy it is for our internal developers to use API and customise the LIMS to fit our needs. It is great with integration with our other sample collection system. It is very easy to import in samples and link experiment and reagent usage to each sample. All actions are tracked and there is a trail log which is super useful if needed for troubleshooting and also for the purpose of auditing and eventually accreditation of our lab. I like that we can customise to get notifications when reagents are running low and when items have expired in addition to when and what maintenance are due for each equipment. Not forgetting it is easy to set up label template and print labels to stick on our lab tubes/plates during our choice of label printer. User friendly system for storing protocols, writing up experiments, useful inventory for cold storage, equipment, samples etc. Easy to share and witness experiments. helps to manage and organise the lab. Good support from the company. We particularly appreciate the Excel spreadsheet tool and the possibility to connect an experiment to any other element inside LabGuru with the Linked Resources option. In only one year of use, we experienced the platform evolving. Can track experiment progress, samples, reagents, protocols, and recipes. Enable experimental reproducibility. Cons We wish there was a way to automatically update inventory items that we purchase. Currently it seems like inventory items/stocks have to be added manually. The software also has a steep learning curve especially for our users that are not used to complicated software. There's a lot of help page reading, clicking around, and trial and error that needs to happen to learn the software. At the moment it seems that moving items between storage location is not very specific but this is on their list of things to do to make it better. When we have documents to upload for certain equipment, we cannot yet upload them to specific service date that is logged but only upload to the main equipment inventory page, which is ok but would be great to associate documents to corresponding maintenance event. It would be useful to get notifications at a specified time (i.e. 1 month) prior to reagent expiring and not just when the reagents have expired. Our developer had sorted out customised emails for this (again indicating how easy to customise Labguru to suit our needs) but if this setting could be implemented in Labguru it would be very useful. When trying to import a large amount of data the system sometimes is slow or import fails occasionally. Sometimes the search function fails to find all documents. Otherwise, no problems. The text edition tool is tricky to use sometimes. Pricy. Sometimes overwhelm with so many features.
Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Supported In Person Supported	Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Supported	Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Supported In Person Supported	Training Documentation Supported Webinars Not Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Supported
Company Information AgileBio Founded: 2002 France and United States labcollector.com	Company Information LabWare Founded: 1986 United States www.labware.com	Company Information Cenevo Founded: 2007 United Kingdom www.labguru.com	Company Information Hudson Robotics Founded: 1983 United States hudsonrobotics.com/lab-automation-software/softlinx/
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Categories Chemical Supported Chemical Inventory Supported ELN Supported Lab Inventory Management Supported LIMS Supported Medical Lab Supported Pharmaceutical and Biotech Supported Scientific Data Management System (SDMS) Supported	Categories Chemical Supported Chemical Inventory Supported ELN Supported Lab Automation Supported Lab Inventory Management Supported LIMS Supported Medical Lab Supported	Categories Chemical Inventory Supported ELN Supported Lab Automation Supported Lab Inventory Management Supported Life Sciences Supported LIMS Supported Scientific Data Management System (SDMS) Supported	Categories Lab Automation Supported Medical Lab Supported
Show More Features Chemical Features Certificates of Analysis Supported Chemical Process Simulation Not Supported Computer-Assisted Structure Elucidation (CASE) Not Supported Inventory Management Supported ISO Management Supported Particle Tracking Not Supported Reporting & Statistics Supported Samples Tracking Supported Traceability Supported Uncertainty Analysis Supported LIMS Features Audit Trail Supported Certificates of Analysis Not Supported Data Import / Export Supported Electronic Laboratory Notebook Supported Inventory Management Supported Lab Instrument Interface Supported Reporting & Statistics Supported Sample Tracking Supported Specification Management Supported Workflow Management Supported Lab Inventory Management Features Barcode Scanning Supported Expiration Date Management Not Supported Purchasing Not Supported Reorder Management Not Supported Sample Management Supported Supply Management Not Supported Usage Tracking Supported Vendor Management Not Supported Medical Lab Features Audit Trail Supported Data Analysis Auditing Supported Data Security Supported EMR Interface Supported Fax Management Supported Lab Instrument Interface Supported Multi-Location Printing Supported Online Instrumentation Supported Physician Test Panels Supported Procedure-Based Billing Supported Sample Tracking Supported	Show More Features Chemical Features Certificates of Analysis Supported Chemical Process Simulation Supported Computer-Assisted Structure Elucidation (CASE) Not Supported Inventory Management Supported ISO Management Supported Particle Tracking Supported Reporting & Statistics Supported Samples Tracking Supported Traceability Supported Uncertainty Analysis Supported LIMS Features Audit Trail Supported Certificates of Analysis Supported Data Import / Export Supported Electronic Laboratory Notebook Supported Inventory Management Supported Lab Instrument Interface Supported Reporting & Statistics Supported Sample Tracking Supported Specification Management Supported Workflow Management Supported Lab Inventory Management Features Barcode Scanning Supported Expiration Date Management Supported Purchasing Supported Reorder Management Supported Sample Management Not Supported Supply Management Supported Usage Tracking Supported Vendor Management Supported Medical Lab Features Audit Trail Supported Data Analysis Auditing Supported Data Security Supported EMR Interface Supported Fax Management Supported Lab Instrument Interface Supported Multi-Location Printing Supported Online Instrumentation Supported Physician Test Panels Supported Procedure-Based Billing Supported Sample Tracking Supported	Show More Features LIMS Features Audit Trail Supported Certificates of Analysis Not Supported Data Import / Export Supported Electronic Laboratory Notebook Supported Inventory Management Supported Lab Instrument Interface Supported Reporting & Statistics Supported Sample Tracking Supported Specification Management Supported Workflow Management Supported Lab Inventory Management Features Barcode Scanning Supported Expiration Date Management Supported Purchasing Supported Reorder Management Supported Sample Management Not Supported Supply Management Supported Usage Tracking Supported Vendor Management Supported	Show More Features Medical Lab Features Audit Trail Not Supported Data Analysis Auditing Not Supported Data Security Not Supported EMR Interface Not Supported Fax Management Not Supported Lab Instrument Interface Supported Multi-Location Printing Not Supported Online Instrumentation Supported Physician Test Panels Not Supported Procedure-Based Billing Not Supported Sample Tracking Not Supported
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