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We are proud of our success in working with laboratories to improve their performance and we'd like to share some news about what's been going on lately.

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Promium and WaterTrax agree to collaborate on interoperability.

Promium, L.L.C., announced today that the company has entered into a partnership with WaterTrax to ensure interoperability of their respective products. Element LIMS from Promium integrates with the WaterTrax solution to create a comprehensive information management infrastructure for water and wastewater labs.
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Launch of Promium LIMS cost savings estimator

If you don't have a LIMS or what you do have is a dysfunctional legacy system, the LIMS Cost Estimator tool gives you a rough idea of the potential productivity savings your lab may experience with a new LIMS.
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Avoiding the common six-pack of implementation mistakes

Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) have been around for decades, and unfortunately so have failed implementations. At the end of the day there one key measure of failure or success—did you improve operations with the implementation? If you aren’t more productive or if you didn’t at least improve quality in some demonstrable way, the implementation failed. Avoid these six common mistakes and your chances will increase..
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Promium to help fund restoration of Gulf Coast wildlife and wetland

Promium, LLC announced today that a portion of proceeds from a campaign targeted at testing laboratories located in the Gulf Coast states will be contributed to help fund the restoration of the Gulf Coast wildlife and wetlands devastated by the recent oil spill. Promium will donate up to five percent of the value of the LIMS software revenue generated from the sales to analytical laboratories in the Gulf Coast states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida as part of this specific campaign.
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Promium releases online subscription version of Element LIMS

Promium, LLC announced today the broad availability of a subscription service offering for Element DataSystem(R), the company's popular laboratory information management system (LIMS) application. Element had previously been available primarily as a licensed desktop software application.
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Element DataSystem® is Compatible with Microsoft Windows® 7>>

Element DataSystem from Promium™ has been tested to meet all the technical requirements to be Compatible with Windows® 7. Only "Compatible with Windows® 7" software and devices have passed Microsoft-designed tests for compatibility and reliability on PCs running the Windows 7 operating system. "Compatible with Windows 7" products install without worry and run reliably with Windows 7.
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Seven Keys to Unlocking the LIMS Selection Process

There are plenty of technical requirements to consider when researching and selecting a LIMS for your laboratory, but sometimes tunnel vision on those technical details can make you miss the forest for the trees. I have been involved with laboratory systems as a user, developer and/or implementer for more than a decade, and I continue to see laboratories overlook many critical elements in the selection process. In order to address this pitfall, I’ve put together the following seven keys, which provide a unique non-technical framework to give you a broader view for evaluating LIMS alternatives.
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Element DataSystem LIMS release increases productivity & access to information.

Promium, LLC announced today the availability of the Element DataSystem version 6.0 laboratory information management system. This major new release of the company's flagship LIMS solution offers features that increase laboratory productivity and expand access to critical analytical information. The release represents a continuation of the process Promium started over a decade ago to provide the most intuitive, productive and cost effective LIMS available.
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EPA Regional Laboratory Selects Promium LIMS.

Promium, LLC announced today that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 testing laboratory has selected the company's Element DataSystem laboratory information management system (LIMS) to help improve productivity and strengthen quality management.
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Two of the top five most productive labs use Element LIMS.

Promium, LLC announced today that two of the top five most productive environmental labs in the country use the Element DataSystem LIMS. According toThe Steve Maxwell/ELWR 2009 Lab Survey and Analysis published in the May 2009 Environmental Laboratory Washington Report, Spectrum Analytical and Weck Laboratories are two of the top five most productive labs based on revenue per employee. The report attributes the operational success in large part to " ...automated lab data management systems as the critical cornerstone for improved productivity."
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Promium celebrates ten years of improving lab operations with LIMS software.

Promium LLC has announced that the company achieved a major milestone in celebrating over ten years of serving the testing laboratory community with LIMS software and services. Back in 1998, former chemists, analysts and lab managers assembled the components of an information management system. That system was commercialized as Element DataSystem. and has now been installed in over two hundred laboratories across North America and Asia with over three thousand users.
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Earthsoft and Promium announce collaborative agreement.

Earthsoft, the leading environmental data management company, and Promium, the top environmental LIMS systems vendor, today announced a collaborative agreement to automate the transfer of data from the field to the lab to the datamanager, thereby establishing a seamless workflow solution. This new work integrates EarthSoft's Sample Planning Module (SPM), Promium's Element DataSystem LIMS, and EarthSoft's EQuISData Processor (EDP), three widely used applications.
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