News

October 1, 2009. Blaze Systems has issued an Instrument Interfacing White Paper examining the apparent paradox evidenced by the underutilization of this powerful and cost effective adjunct to LIMS functionality. The various myths which contribute to this reality are discussed, evaluated, and examined under the illuminating light of reality.

March 23, 2009.  Blaze Systems announces the development of a comprehensive LIMS legacy data migration wizard and toolkit which streamlines and reduces the cost of migrating historical laboratory data from a variety of legacy data sources (Excel, Access, etc.) into BlazeLIMS. 

It is almost universal that a LIMS installation is a second or third generation solution, a follow-on to a legacy LIMS, Access application(s), or Excel based system(s) for laboratory management, made necessary as laboratory needs expand and mature. So too, the need to migrate legacy data into a new LIMS installation is almost universal.  By their very nature, legacy systems often contain dirty data, that is, data that is inconsistent, having poor relational and content integrity, as well as lacking a sound underlying physical or logical data model.  The task of transforming such disarray into sound relational and content order can be daunting and expensive. 

Blaze Systems has developed a legacy data migration wizard and toolkit which automates and streamlines this process.  It provides a framework for specifying the legacy metadata, selecting and separating out entity data sets, cleaning up inconsistent values and loading the data via the standard BlazeLIMS Autologger and Results Uploader.  In this way all the required relational integrity and data content is assured.  Using this new capability, Blaze Systems can provide lower cost, fixed price and effective data migration when you purchase BlazeLIMS and have legacy data you wish to preserve and reference going forward.

March 16, 2009. Blaze Systems has issued a Systems Integration White Paper to at least "scratch the surface" of the opportunity to begin making application architecture for enterprise business effectiveness a significant element in IT strategy for any enterprise, small, medium or large.

March 5, 2009. Blaze Systems has issued a Barcode Labeling White Paper that brings to light many of the key issues to be addressed when determining if LIMS software can deliver the business improvements typically available from the use of machine readable (barcode, RFID) labeling.

August 1, 2008. Blaze Systems announces the establishment of a strategic partnership with Hipro Computer Services Ltd. of Nairobi, Kenya for the purpose of marketing, installing and supporting BlazeLIMS and related products in Africa. BlazeLIMS is an ideal LIMS solution for a resource limited environment because of its low cost, robust flexible architecture, inherent configurability, and ease of installation and use. Hipro Computer Services was established in 1996 and provides a full range of highly professional Information Systems (IS) Services, Information Technology (IT) Services and Project Management Training. With Hipro Computer Services providing superior local and regional sales, services and support, the benefits of BlazeLIMS technology can now be achieved by a wide range of African laboratories. Contact Machua Mbugua at mmbugua@hipro-computer-services.com, +254 (020) 2724266.

January 30, 2008. Blaze Systems announces a new release of BlazeDataWarehouse, its Data Warehousing Module, with support for full bi-directional replication of LIMS configuration and run-time data. With BlazeDataWarehouse, you can run local application and database servers for optimal performance and availability of transaction processing, and also maintain as fine-grained a view of your enterprise wide quality data as you desire in a decision support server to provide comprehensive management of your quality processes across multiple sites and businesses. In addition, the associated configuration data can be maintained either locally or centrally and distributed appropriately, insuring enterprise wide data integrity. BlazeDataWarehouse opens new vistas for bringing enterprise wide quality management to a new level.

July 20, 2007. Blaze Systems announces a new release of BlazeInventory, its Inventory Management Module with support for new assay reagent/kit management and tracking features.  BlazeInventory features, along with fully integrated bar coding, insure absolute control of assay reagent/kit usage to guarantee conformity to SOP rules for reagent life cycles, lot mixing, etc. With BlazeInventory, recalls caused by inadvertent use of questionable assay reagents are a thing of the past. BlazeInventory also protects against receipt of stale materials and insures minimum waste.  BlazeInventory can be purchased and used in stand-alone mode or as a fully integrated add-on to BlazeLIMS.

July 20, 2007. Blaze Systems announces the release of Version 5.3 of BlazeLIMS Enterprise Plus and BlazeLIMS SE (small enterprise), its flagship LIMS products. Enhancements include CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Action) tracking for customer focused and internal concerns and events, more flexible and configurable event messaging, more comprehensive features for integration with other systems (e.g. SAP, PI, IP21, etc.), more automation for uniformity and dilution studies, and enhanced plate management.