CERF - Electronic Laboratory Notebook ELN

CERF is the ELN solution designed for the richness, flexibility, diverse needs & workflows of R&D Labs. Researchers must manage protocols, experimental data, informatics, documents, databases - and capture their work, observations, and interpretations. CERF makes this easy by automatically registering the content, metadata, and activities, as well as time/date stamping and creating audit trails. Relieving the users from the burden of record-keeping and in doing so saves them time for creative thinking.

Improves lab and scientist performance by:

• Supporting a broad range of activities, protocols, data.
• Reducing time spent managing information, recording research, and searching for items and information.
• Increasing productivity, information access & sharing.
• Managing SOPs, notebook and experiment templates.
• Organizing projects, experiments, and data; capturing annotations and scientific interpretation.

Streamlines business and R&D management by:

• Improving productivity and decision making. CERF will pay for itself within 6 months due to more efficient, effective work and reduced man-hours necessary to make sound decisions and complete projects.
• Lowering risk, increasing valuation, and improving ROI from individual R&D programs.
• Enabling better reporting, project management, and collaboration between Business and Science areas

Helps manage critical legal & regulatory needs by:

• Improving compliance (21CFR11) & reducing risk.
• Meeting requirements for security and regulatory policies, including audit trails and digital signatures.
• Capturing and protecting valuable intellectual property.

Addresses IT Services and Informatics needs by:

• Supporting users and collaborators across operating systems (Windows®, Apple Mac OS X)
• Providing manageable and extensible open systems built on ontologies and data standards.
• Lowering R&D costs through easily deployed and managed support systems.
• Integrating and leveraging existing systems and data.

Bridging corporate silos by connecting the enterprise in 3 dimensions: (1) vertical - the organizational chart and business relationships; (2) horizontal - scientific domains, departments, collaborators; (3) time axis - product development lifecycle.

Software Link: CERF - Electronic Laboratory Notebook ELN