As the pharmaceutical industry continues to face new challenges such as increased competition and new technological demands, their laboratories across the globe are looking for innovative ways to manage ever-increasing amount of data. Data collected from experiments is the most valuable information that research laboratories can hold, however many still rely on paper-based notebooks to record protocols and experiments, keep track of results and log data analysis.However, the volume of data being produced by laboratories can make this process very labor intensive, limiting internal efficiencies as well as cross-site collaboration and communication. Digital solutions, such as electronic laboratory notebooks (ELN), supplemented with other solutions such as scientific data management systems (SDMS) and laboratory execution systems (LES), allow laboratories to consolidate and integrate data across an organization. In recent years, informatics vendors have begun to offer ELNs as an outsourced service in the cloud, providing organizations with automated data collection and management processes, which in turn facilitates flexible collaboration, as well as other potential benefits. Regardless of size, location, and purpose, it is crucial that the data is collated and stored in a manner that keeps it secure, but also allows it to be used efficiently. Can cloud-assisted ELNs rise to the challenge?

Laboratories across the globe are all challenged with similar barriers to productivity such as outdated informatics tools and inefficient workflows. Implementations, upgrades and integrations of on-premise systems can be time-consuming, and result in in-house IT personnel having little time to work on new ideas. Written observations in paper-based notebooks are often transcribed incorrectly, and tests and experiments are frequently repeated due to previous data being lost or inaccessible.This challenge is further compounded by budget constraints which see laboratories running with the same level of demand, but with fewer human resources. The lack of a central data access point is a significant challenge facing research and development (R&D) productivity. A central point of access allows researchers to clarify where team members should store and find data. When laboratory staff must rely on several different data distribution methods, productivity is significantly slowed. Hours are then lost due to poor data collection and reporting systems.

Digital platforms, such as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) ELN, can create a reliable and repeatable process for disseminating data, as well as improving data searches, by hosting all files in one location. More intuitive technology solutions can also reduce user frustration and ultimately increase job satisfaction, which leads to productivity improvements.

The time saved on administrative tasks by implementing an ELN system enables researchers to reach milestones faster while saving money. However, many ELNs are hosted locally which poses a problem for those that operate across multiple sites and, often, multiple countries, resulting in an array of data being generated that sits in separate silos. Data formats and applications are also frequently inconsistent, making it hard for laboratory members to store all their work in one place, and for managers to oversee it. ELNs go some way to alleviate these challenges, but the issue is further complicated when lab managers and directors are required to manage multiple teams, often in different places.Nevertheless, the potential rewards are substantial. An organization using an advanced laboratory technology such as a cloud ELN in real time can take advantage of a seamless data workflow. Laboratory technicians can document data, team leaders review it and project managers can oversee activity and relate it to timelines and budgets, no matter where in the world they are. Links can be placed digitally between projects, and experiments and metadata attached, making searches faster and simpler. All this enables smoother feedback and keeps discussions within the context of individual experiments.

Cloud-based ELNs also facilitate improved collaboration between laboratories in global organizations, allowing data and workflow access from wherever you have an internet connection. For example, one team member can order reagents for an experiment and link them to a protocol. Users can see where an item was used across a list of experiments, making it easier to find data, troubleshoot any issues and establish the suitability of entities for different experimental tasks. The provider can also offer better traceability of data and procedures taken during experiments, meaning the cause of failed experiments can be tracked, ultimately reducing the number of these fails and enhancing laboratory output.

Time and cost savings are two of the key reasons for organizations transitioning from paper-based laboratory processes to cloud-based digital systems. Automatic sample review eliminates the need to manually check all information, as a central laboratory can use the online interface to register and enter samples, specify tests, and check this has all been performed correctly.Quantity of data is another hurdle that cloud-based laboratory management solutions are designed to overcome. Many analytical techniques, such as flow cytometry, generate a vast number of large raw data files, which often need to be retained and integrated in the documented experiment, to ensure a companys availability for spot checks. Incorporating this data into a cloud-based ELN frees up user space by moving data into the cloud and makes it available as required.

An unalterable audit trail is critical to address data integrity concerns, both from a regulatory and product quality perspective. The Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 (21 CFR) Part 11 compliance stipulates experiment audit trails and digital signatures as a baseline requirement for cloud based ELN systems [1]. For clinical data storage and management, ELN systems that are HIPAA-compliant may be required. Cloud-based ELNs ensure that time and date stamping for regulatory and intellectual property tracking is straightforward, due to the simplicity of tracking ownership of experiments and determining which team member inputted certain data.

In order to keep up with their competitors, labs need a user-friendly informatics system where individuals can store large amounts of data in a structured manner while maintaining regulatory compliance. Technology providers have responded to this need by developing solutions such as cloud-based ELNs to facilitate the homogeneity of data and high-quality standards improving connectivity, scalability, and innovation in the lab.This need for powerful, agile and flexible laboratory management solutions is only going to intensify. Cloud-based solutions provide proactive insights into data, allow better management of inventories, and help laboratories to manage their collaborations more effectively. The decision to utilize a SaaS ELN will be guided by a mix of efficiency, security, and regulatory considerations.

Reference:CFR Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 Part 11 Electronic Records; Electronic Signatures, April 2018,https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?CFRPart=11About the author

Steve Yemmis CEO at BioData, a Digital Science company providing lab informatics productsincluding electronic lab notebook, lab inventory, chemical registration and biological screening solutionsto biopharmaceutical and academic life sciences organisations. The companys solutions are powered byLabguru, a web- and cloud-based informatics platform. Prior to this, Steve held the position of vice president of sales at BioData and Digital Science and has more than 20 years of experience in selling and marketing solutions (software, services and automation systems) to science based companies.Email:steve.yemm@biodata.com

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Standard Bank South Africa says it is moving its core SAP Cloud Platform services to Microsoft Azure to improve the experience customers have with the bank, while enabling it to introduce new solutions to market more efficiently.

This accelerates the digital transformation of SAP customers to S/4HANA by partnering with Microsoft and using jointly developed reference architectures, roadmaps, and industry best practices, the bank said.

It noted that many enterprises are looking to reduce their reliance on their own datacentres and moving more of their core workloads to the cloud.

Standard Banks CIO for personal and business banking SA, Sabelo Nkwanyana, said: This partnership continues our focus on innovation by leveraging the respective skills of SAP and Microsoft to transform the digitisation and personalisation journey for our customers.

Lillian Barnard, managing director, Microsoft South Africa said: The Project Embrace initiative between Microsoft and SAP announced globally last year is centred around the customer journey to SAP S/4HANA and SAP Cloud Platform on Microsoft Azure.

The work that we are doing with Standard Bank is the first local demonstration of this partnership, and another milestone in the journey Microsoft is on with Standard Bank, to bring innovation into every aspect of the banks IT system and enable enriched interactions with the banks customers.

Todays announcement is the biggest partnership centred on SAP implementation in Africa. With client experience a key strategic pillar for Standard Bank, Project Embrace reflects the shared commitment of both SAP and Microsoft to accelerate our customers journey to the cloud, said Cathy Smith, managing director at SAP Africa.

The project will help Standard Bank deliver a faster time-to-market on products and services, while ensuring its IT infrastructure is optimised, the bank said.

By moving workloads to the cloud, Standard Bank will be able to access a range of features that it can deploy instantly and scale according to demand. This will result in cost reductions, improved system performance, and access to innovation, it said.

Through Project Embrace, we are now able to better identify our business pain points and effectively address them through technologies that deliver a demonstratable return on investment, said Nkwanyana.

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Acquired companies combine under the Navisite brand, building upon their collective DNA, to deliver platform-agnostic, best-fit cloud solutions and services

As the result of a series of acquisitions, there is a major new player in the managed cloud services market: the newNavisite. The company features the core cloud, application and hosting services of the legacy Navisite company, combined with the next-generation cloud services and expertise of RDX, clckwrk and ClearDB, to help businesses accelerate IT transformation.

With more than two decades of experience helping thousands of companies modernize their IT operations, Navisite is designed to meet the service and support requirements of enterprises looking to transform their IT investment and operations from cost-center to business driver. Navisite does this by providing high-touch services and unmatched technical and functional expertise to help customers successfully navigate change, digitize their IT operations and move their businesses forward.

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Today is the culmination of almost two years of work identifying and acquiring the strategic components and team members to create the new Navisite, said Navisite CEOMark Clayman. As part of this, weve forged close relationships with the worldsleading cloud providers and built a customer-centric business model with proven delivery methodologies. Our platform-agnostic approach is core to this model, enabling us to partner with customers to deliver the best possible solution for their business demands.

Clayman added that this customer-centric approach to managed cloud services builds the trust required for customers to rely on Navisite for their most important business systems and what Navisite refers to as navigating the now.

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Navisite boasts hundreds of certified experts across all major cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and more. The company also has deep expertise in database and application management, enabling customers to drive innovation and efficiency through an optimal mix of on-premises, hosted, cloud, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments.

Navisite has become a formidable player in the managed cloud services space, with deep expertise and a proven track record of customer success, saidPhilbert Shih, Managing Director at independent research and consulting firm Structure Research. With the team that they have pulled together, it will be exciting to watch Navisites continued growth in this marketparticularly among fast-growth enterprises that want to successfully overcome the challenges of IT modernization and transform their businesses.

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Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which involves automating repetitive and tedious processes within organizations, is dominated by three pure-play software vendors:UiPath, Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere.These companies are some of the fastest growing in the tech industry and have raised substantial amounts of venture capital.

But the mega software companies want to get a piece of the RPA opportunity.And the one that is perhaps best positioned is Microsoft.

This should be no surprise.The company has a massive roster of corporate customers, a strong global infrastructure and a vast ecosystem of partners and developers.It also helps that Microsoft has been aggressively bolstering its cloud business, which is now second only to Amazon.

The key to the strategy for RPA has been to leverage the Power Automate platform, which helps automate legacy systems.Just some of the features include:the understanding of structured and unstructured data (say for invoices) and the integrations with more than 300 modern apps and services.There are also numerous AI capabilities.

Ok then, so what about RPA? Well, it was added last year. Its called UI Flows, which has both attended and unattended automation.The application also is fairly easy to use as it allows for the recording of workflows (keystrokes, mouse movements, data entry, etc) and provides for low-code and no-code approaches.For example, Schlumberger has used the technology to drive efficiency with 13,000 botsand a majority of them were built outside of IT.

Everybody can be a developer, said Charles Lamanna, who is the CVP of the Citizen Developer Platform at Microsoft.It takes less than 30 seconds to sign up.You can then create a bot in a few minutes.

However, might the accessibility of this technology lead to security issues?For instance, could an employee do something like put payroll information in Dropbox storage?

Microsoft is certainly mindful of the risks and has created a system to enforce compliance.This is possible since the platform is cloud native.You have complete visibility with every bot, said Lamanna.

So how big is UI Flows in the RPA market?Well, its not clear.But in a blog post, Microsoft noted:Power Automate already helps hundreds of thousands of organizations automate millions of processes every day.

For example, Ingram Micro uses Power Automate across its organization to help with onboarding, account creation, management of credit lines, and other critical workflows.About 75% of the projects took less than 30 days to develop.

Yet I suspect we will see accelerated growth of UI Flowsand soon.A big part of this will certainly be the core technology.But I think the business model is also likely to be disruptive to the RPA industry.

Consider that its typical for a software vendor to charge on a per-bot basis, which could come to over $1,000 per month.This does not include the fees for orchestration and other modules.

But Microsoft is breaking this model, which involves two tiers. First, there is a $40-per-user monthly fee for running attended or unattended bots.Next, you can elect to pay $150-per-month for each unattended bot.

In other words, this low-cost strategy should greatly expand adoption.It will also likely have a major impact across the RPA landscape.Cost has certainly been a major point of concern for customers, especially those that are looking to scale the automation.

There are three trends on the horizon for RPA, said Lamanna.First, cloud is inevitable and cloud hosting will be the only environment that matters end-to-end. Second, if RPA wants to become mainstream, it has to be democratized. The reality is Windows didnt become a big deal until it was on everybodys desk. For RPA to be transformative, it has to be on everybodys desk. And the need for RPA is real. Over 60% of all positions for information workers spend over 30% of their time doing rote, automatable tasks. The economic benefit for companies, and even more importantly the fulfillment at work for employees, is very, very large. We just have to make it possible and affordable. And third, automation is going to stretch beyond UI automation. True automation has elements like chatbots and forms that collect information and these will all start to mix together with digital process automation and robotic process automation. Customers want to solve an automation problem with one integrated solution.

Tom (@ttaulli) is the author of the book,Artificial Intelligence Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction, as well as the upcoming book, The Robotic Process Automation Handbook: A Guide to Implementing RPA Systems.

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The New Report Personal/Private Cloud Market published by Premium Market Insights, covers the market landscape and its growth prospects over the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.

Personal cloud is a cloud storage platform that enables the customers to access, synchronize and share stored data across various mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. In this era of digitalization, there is an increasing need of storing and sharing personal data or professional data. The rapidly increasing tech-savvy population has led to the growing demand of cloud computing services in the recent years. The increasing use of camera-equipped devices, such as smartphones and tablets, has created a huge demand for a secure platform to store digital content. Faster and convenient access to stored data and sharing of information would define new standards for the personal cloud industry to create lucrative opportunities for the market players. The world personal cloud market is forecast to generate a revenue of $89.9 billion by 2020, registering a CAGR of 33.1% during the forecast period.

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Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) is gaining increasing acceptance, particularly among small and medium enterprises due to benefits of improved productivity, work flexibility and reduced infrastructure costs. Personal cloud services would facilitate file storage and sharing among the employees and enterprises who have adopted the BYOD trend. However, the issues of privacy and security of stored data would hinder the market growth.

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