To be successful, electronic lab notebooks
(ELNs) must meet the day-to-day needs of
the scientists who use it. This is especially
critical for enterprise ELNs designed for use
across scientific disciplines.
Symyx Notebook is the result of the
company?s broad experience developing
ELNs for large, global corporations over the
course of 15 years. Close collaboration with
numerous pharmaceutical companies has
been essential in understanding the
workflows and use cases encountered by
scientists in their daily activities.
?The key really is asking scientists what they
actually need and then partnering to build
that core functionality into the system
correctly right from the beginning, rather
than giving scientists what you think they
want and then hoping for good results,?
said Stan Piper, Senior Scientist, at Pfizer
Inc, which was one of seven companies that
has partnered with Symyx on the
development of its Notebook. ?It?s a long
haul process that requires constant
feedback over
many iterations.?
Essential to success, according to Piper, is
choosing a vendor that ?agrees on your
vision of the product?which is not always
as easy as it would seem?and who has the
capacity to partner with a large
organisation effectively to build an out-ofthe-
box, fully supported solution. For us,
Symyx was that partner.?
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