Bika LIMS, is one of the oldest and yet reliable open sourceLIMS solutions around, As it went to production in 2005, providing releases, and support for the users. It has also obvious workflow and powerful documents support as it exports the results in different formats.
Bika LIMS came out as a web-based system, supporting many languages, and clean UI for the users.
Features :
Multi-user roles and permissions.
Results Export.
Integration ready with existing ERP systems.
Total Quality Control Tools : Sampling, Methods, Product specifications, ISO 17025 quality single and multi Sample COA , Logs and audit trails.
Finance & Management and Reporting Tools.
Dynamic and Easy advisable logging.
Barcode printing and scanning
BikaHealth.
BikaHealth
Bika team has extended the functionality of the core system to create BikaHealth which is Patient Centred, and EMR Integration Ready.
Bika is built on PloneCMS & Zope Python Framework, which is active since 1999 and has a powerful large worldwide community. PloneCMS is also used to create several LIMS "Laboratory Information Management Systems" solutions (3), We have covered them in our article here: Top 10+ Open source Laboratory Information Management Systems
Developer's Notes:
Bika was build on top of Zope framework, and Plone CMS/ Framework, which are built on Python. The UI may look outdated, But Bika is a solid system for Labs. It has very clear documentation, powerful team to support it and compelling users' community as well as very effective sponsors who realise the necessity of this project.
Bika may look tricky to install for non-experianced user but it takes no time with experianced developers to make it up and running. Bika has listed Professional LIMS user and technical support Service providers - list .
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Bika LIMS, is one of the oldest and yet reliable open source LIMS solutions around, As it went to production in 2005, providing releases, and support for the users. It has also obvious workflow and powerful documents support as it exports the results in different formats.
Bika LIMS came out
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