See the Whole Picture
A Shared Meeting Place for Analytical and Non-Analytical Data
1D NMR
Raman
2D NMR
LC/MS
Mass Spectra
MS(n)
UV/Vis/NIR
DSC
Physisorption
X-Ray
Chemisorption
TGA
Porosimetry
EPR
Fluorescence
GC/MS
HPLC
IR LC/DAD
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How many of the above analytical techniques do you use? ACD/Labs' analytical data management software is designed to bridge format, instrument, and location dependencies that are common in today's laboratory, and provide a common point of access to data needed to create a report.
Would it be helpful if:
- As a bench chemist, you could take all the analytical results from one data system with a consistent set of tools for creating reports faster?
- As a spectroscopist, you could gain access to existing interpretations on complementary sample data?
- As a manager, you could evaluate what project to prioritize by critically evaluating all the relevant analytical data?
- As a team, you could share access data in a way that everybody can get what they need when they need it?
Centralized Point of Access
Typically, the results you need for a project are spread across various locations, instruments, proprietary systems, data types, and formats in independent physical and electronic media types. Lanshire and Davies (Chemistry International 2006) indicate that the numbers of different formats in general use is increasing, with over 100 currently being in common use to store similar types of information. Combined with the ever increasing volume of data, locating the correct pieces of data from long running projects can take hours, if not days. It is therefore not surprising that scientists can easily spend much more time searching, reconciling data, standardizing taxonomy, organizing, and formatting data than actually writing their interpretations and findings into a report. Hundreds of modern and legacy instruments can be read directly. Please see a list of ACD/SpecManager supported
formats to see if your formats are listed.
Advanced Automation and Visualization
It is very difficult to automate data management to your custom needs, especially if you have to design independent automation solutions for each and every instrument and data systems in your laboratory. By centralizing data into one system, automation tasks become greatly simplified. Automation can be achieved for data handling, translation, coordination, and processing, and even interpretation. By the same token, it can be difficult and costly to install hard copies of each and every software for occasional users that only need visualization access to the data you have collected. The best solution for this is to provide secure Web browser access to the centralized data system.
Many of our customers use more advanced reporting capabilities associated with enterprise-wide solutions enabled by ACD/Web Librarian, ACD/Automation Server, and ACD/Workflow Manager. These incorporate and supplement the capabilities found in ACD/SpecManager in avoiding data management bottlenecks at any stage of your R&D. For example, in routine processes, fully automated structure-NMR spectrum reports can be generated without human intervention if mismatches are detected.
Unified Report Creation
Report templates can be applied in a semi-manual or fully automated report creation mode. Various built-in automation tools can be set to trigger report creation as ACD/Labs or Adobe PDF files, and are available to handle the more tedious tasks associated with reporting. Custom templates set to an organization-wide standard can combine any number of graphs or spectra from any analytical technique. This can help ensure that people in different departments are presenting information in a consistent way, avoiding miscommunications. To learn more about reporting capabilities, please click here.
All for One, and One for All
Please review the relevant Application Notes and Demo Movies to learn more on how our software is used.
 
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