Symyx has announced that it will begin offering its electronic laboratory notebooks in a hosted, software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. The company's press release suggests that this move is in response to economic pressures to offer cheaper, more flexible options, but the trend towards web-based IT offerings is one that will dovetail nicely with pharmaceutical companies' needs for better ways of integrating the work of their scientists worldwide.
The hosted Symyx Notebook will enable "medicinal chemists, synthetic chemists and biologists to manage, explore, share and reuse experimental information and intellectual property (IP). Using a hosted ELN service, R&D organizations can deploy and leverage the electronic notebook quickly and efficiently without added IT infrastructure and resources while collaborating more effectively with partners in today’s information-driven R&D environment."
Information security is a key concern, of course, which Symyx addresses in its announcement.
--Paul Thomas
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