Scitara™ Digital Lab Exchange DLX™ gains ISO certification and advances the modern lab with the latest release of its barrier-breaking lab integration platform

 Marlborough, MA – Scitara Corporation, an innovator in scientific laboratory digital transformation, announces new releases to its Scitara Digital Lab Exchange DLX™ cloud platform to bring next generation connectivity, self-enabled system configuration, and automation to the lab.

Scitara has recently been awarded ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Information Security Management System Certification in recognition of its best-in-class digital platform, further strengthening the value-add of its offer.  Scitara is also working towards SOC 2 Certification, an AICPA Standard for managing customer data, which is based on five standard trust service principles.

There is also enhanced support for DLX’s intuitive, configurable orchestrations, which put the power of systems integration into a customer’s hands through a user-friendly interface. Orchestrations establish a logical workflow which provides an editable method for users to easily create and modify data exchange business rules connecting multiple instruments, applications, and informatics platforms within the lab. With the release of V1.4, the platform is fully extendable to cover webservice connections, PC instrument connections and stand-alone IoT devices.

Due to high customer demand, Scitara has also added an orchestration event query function to this latest version. This capability allows Scitara Orchestrations to mine the event stream, a powerful activity log based on DLX operations, to assemble content from linked data sets that are separated by time, resulting in enhanced context to support analytics. This feature enhances the facility of DLX, allowing for events that may have occurred at different times to be seen in context for greater analytics.

Building on the broad-based connectivity already available in the Scitara DLX platform, the latest release also adds the Scitara DLX Connector for the Benchling platform, for instant integration with a leading life sciences R&D cloud and easy transfer of data between the Benchling platform and other lab systems.

Scitara’s rapid growth has been driven by the launch of its Scientific Integration Platform™ SIP™, a cloud native infrastructure that allows scientific laboratories to realize the full benefits of digital transformation. The Scitara SIP dramatically accelerates science by facilitating a modern, fully connected laboratory equipped for the 21^st century with data integrity, data mobility, system flexibility, and workflow reconfigurability by the user as standard.

Ajit Nagral, Founder and CEO of Scitara commented: “As industry leaders, we continue to innovate with new platform releases that benefit the entire scientific community.

“Scitara’s SIP represents an agile integration framework that adapts to changing market needs. For example, workflows can be reconfigured on the fly by scientists, who are already fully conversant in – and expect to work with – the latest technology to manage and share their cross-functional data. Our SIP presents a new solution to the lab connectivity challenge that has stifled progress for decades. For the first time, we have delivered a means to achieve true data mobility in a user-friendly platform, overcoming the barriers of legacy systems, removing the issue of lab systems tied to a single vendor, and breaking the cycle of insurmountable technical debt.”

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Scitara, Geoff Gerhardt, PhD, added: “Bringing new drugs to market involves overcoming complex data management challenges in a highly regulated environment. Mobilizing scientific data from research through quality control (QC) and manufacturing is critical to accelerating the pace of bringing life-saving therapies to market. Digital technology has huge transformational potential, but regulatory barriers have delayed its adoption compared to other industries. Scitara’s mantra is ‘no instrument or application left behind.’ We haven’t encountered an instrument or application that couldn’t be quickly added to our digital backbone and we don’t think we ever will.”

The Scitara DLX 1.4 platform release adds new functionality to further break down the challenges of connecting and managing an array of unconnected, complex systems and instruments, removing the widespread reluctance to switch out instruments for a more modern solution, and freeing up an enterprise to fully leverage the value of its data. It delivers best-in-class integration capabilities, redefines the lab integration framework, and enables breakthrough automation and data exchange.

Nagral concludes: “We are fast becoming the industry standard integration platform for the enterprise laboratory digital ecosystem and we’re continuing to see rapid adoption from the pharma, biopharma, and life sciences industries. As we continue to grow our business, we will continue to evolve the platform to bring the lab of the future to reality.”

More information on the benefits of the Scitara offer is outlined in the whitepaper Building the interconnected laboratory: data mobility to support digital transformation.

 About Scitara  

Scitara is a global provider of a cloud-based, industry-specific platform and solutions for the life sciences industry. Based in Massachusetts, the Scitara leadership brings decades of experience in solving digital challenges for the scientific laboratory: Meet the Modern Lab™. For more information, please visit scitara.com.

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