Vendor Insights: Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS version 21.3

Accelerating Scientific R&D with the Integrated, Connected Lab

The lab of the future is intelligent, agile, seamlessly connected, and sustainable. By leveraging integrated digital tools, advanced AI, and automated workflows, labs drive greater productivity and innovation, ensuring scientists stay at the leading edge of discovery.

Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS v21.3 offers an integrated data management platform designed to support AI-enabled lab operations. It enables real-time data visualization, automated sample and instrument tracking, and built-in data integrity controls to help streamline workflows and improve decision-making.

With advanced resource scheduling and capacity planning, SampleManager™ LIMS v21.3 seamlessly integrates with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems like SAP. Using standardized APIs and the SampleManager Data Integration Interface (SMIDI), it supports secure bi-directional data exchange. This end-to-end integration facilitates consistent data flow across lab and enterprise systems, optimizing lab efficiency, accelerating data-driven insights, and providing a scalable architecture to support evolving lab informatics requirements.

SampleManager™ LIMS v21.3 streamlines data integration by unifying lab workflows, data sources, and operational systems. Key updates in this release, including direct SAP connectivity, automated data exchange, centralized document control, and real-time analytics, reduce manual entry and strengthen traceability across R&D, QA/QC, and manufacturing. Enhanced data consistency and accessibility support timely, evidence-based decisions that promote product quality and accelerate development cycles.

How Astrix Can Help

Astrix provides specialized support for implementing Thermo Scientific™ SampleManager™ LIMS v21.3, drawing on extensive expertise in system configuration and deployment. Our approach emphasizes aligning platform capabilities with the specific operational and compliance requirements of each lab environment.

Drawing on broad experience across industry sectors, we apply established best practices to evaluate, configure, and integrate lab informatics solutions. Our team has successfully supported hundreds of organizations in building scalable, compliant digital lab environments.

Astrix’s LIMS services for SampleManager include:

• Business requirement analysis & project management
• Cloud Migration
• Design and implementation
• Data migration
• System integration, consolidation, and configuration
• System upgrades
• Testing and user training
• Systems validation

About Astrix

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