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Ten steps to protect your R&D investment within partnerships  By Dr. Jeff Spitzner, President & Chief Science Officer, Rescentris The R&D landscape is changing for the life sciences industry and it is increasingly important to collaborate to carry out key activities across the drug development lifecycle. Partnerships of many sorts can deliver tremendous benefits...	CERF - 21 CFR PART 11 COMPLIANCE Compliance with FDA regulations places a substantial burden on your organization.  This document details how CERF complies with the various requirements of 21 CFR Part 11.
It's Academic: Data Portability and ELNs By Dr. Wolfgang Rumpf, Product Specialist, Rescentris The Life Sciences are slowly but surely making the move into Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs), and while much attention has been focused on the barriers to entry into ELNs, so far little has been spent on the flip side of that coin - getting data back out of an ELN...	ELN Activation Energy: The Top 10 Reasons Users Won't Use Your ELN & How to Overcome Them When an organization adopts an ELN, it is making a long-term commitment and a serious investment of time and effort. The organization will place its trust in whatever system it ultimately implements with its life’s blood, the end result of millions, potentially billions, of dollars of R&D money...
Why you Need to buy an ELN Today! By Dr. Wolfgang Rumpf, Product Specialist, Rescentris Two hundred years ago, when Sir Isaac Newton and his colleagues implemented a major paradigm shift from alchemy to science − rational thought, hypothesis, test, repeat - it was fine to record results on paper. Observation was everything, and the only types of scientific data they had could be represented with numbers, letters, and simple...	Defining the Requirements for an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) for Biologists Biologists have diverse requirements for an ELN capable of managing lab records and improving their research performance. Rescentris designed its ELN product CERF specifically to meet the needs of Biology and multidiscipline life sciences R&D organizations...
Browser-based vs. Client-Server-based ELNs:  Which is right for your Organization? By Dr. Wolfgang Rumpf, Product Specialist, Rescentris There are many Electronic Lab Notebooks on the market, and picking the right one for your organization can be confusing. One of the issues that you may run across is whether or not to choose a “cross-platform” ELN; meaning it will run on Windows as well as on Mac OS X...	ELNs and Pharmaceutical Industry Science is more collaborative, more dispersed, and more immediate. Collaborators are down the hall as well as across oceans, and we need to collaborate instantly, because we aren’t the only ones fighting for that grant/patent/publication. Everything has to happen now − it needs to be validated and time-date stamped, and it must adhere to standards and regulations...
About CERF:
Rescentris Advantage CERF does an excellent job helping diverse R&D laboratories manage projects and documents. Customers use the CERF ELN to promote scientific collaboration and to control intellectual property. Moreover, the Rescentris CERF ELN is an uncomplicated, affordable system that provides exceptional value to end users...	CERF Features & Benefits for the Scientist Documenting your experiments was never this easy. Create a new experiment page from scratch or reuseany of your existing pages as templates. Drag and drop or copy and paste content – files, text, and images– from anywhere. CERF lets you work with any type of content, any type of file...
Products and Services Rescentris is a full-service vendor who can help you with every aspect of your CERF deployment and organization-wide data integration needs. This document describes some of the services we offer and partners we work with that will help your deployment go smoothly.	CERF Architecture Overview Rescentris CERF is designed to support collaborative research efforts through use of the Electronic Lab Notebook and Scientific Content Management components, while at the same time minimizing the impact of the system on the organizationʼs IT infrastructure. This document presents a high-level overview of the CERF system architecture...
CERF Security We are often asked to provide details on what measures CERF uses to secure our customers’ data. At Rescentris we take data security and integrity very seriously. This is the cornerstone of our electronic laboratory notebook, CERF. CERF ensures both data security and integrity by logically creating frameworks and boundaries that both users and the system leverage. As CERF is a client/server application, logical demarcations exist with the Client, Client-Server Communication and Server...	CERF Multidiscipline CERF is a highly flexible data capture and document management solution that was designed to help scientists and administrators in any research environment. Right out of the box, CERF can be used in almost any discipline with no need for expensive customizations. Our customers are diverse and include academic labs, commercial biotechnology and pharmacology facilities, petrochemical plants, research hospitals and government research institutes of all kinds...
Chemistry Functionality This plugin architecture enables us to display sequence traces or sequence files directly inline, not as file icons that need to be opened in a separate application, nor as static images - the plug-in architecture allows CERF to dynamically display and browse through data, as well as manipulate it in real time...	CERF and IronMountain Currently this functionality can be used to send the final printed record (i.e. the PDF) of any finalized or signed resource directly to IronMountain using a menu command within CERF. ("Finalized" or "signed" resources in CERF are ones that are considered complete.) Essentially, what is sent is the digital version of what you would see if you print your notebook. Additionally, starting with CERF 4.0, users will be able to send all raw data files from finalized CERF resources...
Rescentris Iron Mountain Data Sheet Iron Mountain electronic archiving service is build into CERF ELN, allowing your finalized ELN records to be automatically secured off-site. Records are independently and redundantly time-and-date-stamped for long-term data storage and enhanced IP protection. Sending and retrieving completed and signed PDF lab records to your Iron Mountain account requires nothing more than a right-click menu command from within the CERF notebook...	Rescentris Manager Experience The Rescentris team has already demonstrated that it has the management, technical, and business expertise to conduct innovative IT research, develop products based on the new technologies, test these thoroughly (internally and with partners), and improve and refine them based on user feedback, and then deliver these systems to targeted users and organizations that include biotechnology and pharma companies, government research labs, and academic, clinical, and nonprofit research institutions...

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