ELabELN Product & Pricing Guide – Features, Editions, and Implementation

Comprehensive Electronic Lab Notebook Solution

The LabLynx ELabELN Enterprise Edition delivers best-in-class electronic lab notebook functionality that is uniquely comprehensive, consisting of a suite of both open and proprietary applications seamlessly integrated to provide configurability and extensibility. This complete product and pricing guide details everything laboratories need to know about choosing, implementing, and scaling ELabELN to fit their exact research and collaboration needs.

Choosing the Right ELN for Your Laboratory

Electronic Lab Notebooks are transforming laboratory operations by offering significant benefits in data management and collaboration. While all labs can benefit from ELNs, research-intensive and collaborative environments stand to gain the most. This guide explores how adopting an ELN tailored to specific needs and workflows enables laboratories to unlock new levels of efficiency, accuracy, and innovation.

All-in-One Functionality and Features

Structured Data Entry and Template Management

The guide details how ELabELN organizes data into projects, experiments, and tasks hierarchically, enabling researchers to create, store, and reuse experimental protocols through comprehensive template management. Libraries of reusable templates support common workflows, while rich text editing allows formatting, images, tables, and file attachments. Electronic signatures authenticate entries, change control tracks document modifications, and cross-referencing capabilities link related entries for easy navigation.

Real-Time Collaboration and Sharing

Multiple users can work on the same entry or document simultaneously through LabDrive integration. Customizable roles and access levels accommodate different team members, while commenting and feedback features enable team discussions. Project sharing capabilities extend collaboration to both internal and external collaborators via secure LabDrive connections.

Workflow and Task Management

This guide explores ELabELN’s comprehensive workflow capabilities including task assignment and progress tracking through LabDrive, Kanban board visualization for workflow management, reusable workflow templates, milestone management for project tracking, and time tracking functionality to log time spent on tasks or experiments.

User Experience and Accessibility

ELabELN provides personalized dashboards for quick access to important information, mobile and tablet support for on-the-go access, customizable templates adapted to specific lab needs, and advanced search filters to narrow results efficiently.

Inventory and Sample Management

The platform manages stocks of reagents, samples, and consumables with barcode and QR code integration for item tracking. Storage documentation identifies exact locations, expiry documentation prevents use of expired items, custom fields accommodate specific attributes, and supplier documentation maintains vendor information for reagents and equipment.

Integration and Automation Capabilities

LabVia Flow-Based Programming

This guide details how LabVia provides visual tools for wiring together devices, APIs, and services, enabling workflow automation through event-driven architecture. Organizations can implement LabDrive platforms for file sharing and collaboration, utilize integrated office suites for document editing and co-authoring, and share files securely with flexible permissions and link protection.

LabVista Reporting and Analytics

LabVista design tools create interactive reports with data binding from various sources. Reports can be exported to multiple formats including PDF, Excel, and Word, with custom logic implemented through scripting and interactive dashboards for data visualization.

Security and Regulatory Compliance

Comprehensive Security Framework

The guide outlines data encryption protecting information both at rest and in transit, multi-factor authentication for enhanced security, automated backups to prevent data loss, quick data recovery capabilities, and intellectual property protection features.

Regulatory Compliance Alignment

ELabELN supports 21 CFR Part 11 compliance with electronic records, user authentication, secure e-signatures, and audit trails ensuring data authenticity and traceability. GLP and GMP alignment provides configurable workflows and standardized documentation. ISO 17025, ISO 9001, and ISO 15189 alignment offers structured templates, document control, and quality linkages supporting traceable, audit-ready records. ISO 27001 information security ensures data confidentiality, integrity, and availability through encryption, IAM/SSO, audit logging, and SOC 3-certified hosting.

Add-On Applications and Platform Ecosystem

LabLynx Platform Integration

The LabLynx Platform serves as the central user management, Single Sign-on, and Identity Access Management platform providing secure user access to all LabLynx applications and functions. The platform includes add-on extensions for collaboration, messaging, alerts, dashboards, AI capabilities, and much more.

LabDrive Scientific Data Management

LabDrive synchronizes lab documents, datasets, and research materials across multiple devices seamlessly, allowing access from desktops, laptops, and mobile devices across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS platforms while ensuring all files remain up to date and synchronized. This proves particularly beneficial for labs managing vast amounts of data across different teams and locations.

LabVista Analytics and Business Intelligence

This guide explains how LabVista aggregates data from ELabELN, LabVia, LabDrive, and other sources to provide actionable insights from laboratory data, empowering laboratories to make informed decisions with ease.

LabVia Connectivity and Automation

LabVia connects to various APIs and databases, facilitating data exchange between systems and instruments. It automates the upload of experimental data to centralized repositories, ensuring traceability and reducing manual entry errors while integrating diverse systems into cohesive data ecosystems.

Product Editions and Pricing

Three Flexible Tiers

The guide provides detailed pricing comparisons for the Community Edition (free with unlimited users and one team), Team Edition (starting at $100/month/user for 3+ users with two months free for annual subscriptions), and Enterprise Edition (starting at $150/month/user for 5+ users with two months free for annual subscriptions). Each edition includes progressively more features, from basic ELabELN functionality to comprehensive enterprise capabilities including LabDrive SDMS, LabVia integration, LabVista reporting, and professional services.

What Makes ELabELN Unique

This guide emphasizes ELabELN’s unique combination of collaborative capabilities, customizable templates, advanced data management, open APIs and extensibility, robust data security, cross-platform accessibility, scalability for any sized team, integrated inventory management, and compliance-ready frameworks. While individual features may be available in other ELN solutions, no other platform provides all these capabilities with an open ecosystem of add-ons making the solution virtually limitless.

Implementation and Getting Started

Community Edition Onboarding

Getting started with the free Community Edition requires just a couple of clicks at www.elabeln.com to sign up and immediately start using ELabELN with access to online training guides. Users can add hourly training, additional teams, or upgrade options at any time.

Team and Enterprise Edition Process

The guide outlines a comprehensive six-step process including initial contact and consultation, tailored demonstrations of proposed solutions, free account signup without obligation, supported trial periods in sandbox environments, ordering when ready with no setup costs for work already completed together, and final setup assistance for integrations, customizations, and go-live support.

Professional Services and Support

LabLynx offers full support, maintenance, and warranty coverage along with implementation services and ad-hoc training, development, and technical services—all requested, managed, and delivered through the LIMShelp platform. Enterprise Edition includes hourly services for project and account management, integration and automation, development and customization, custom reports, data migration, validation, and enterprise support.

Deployment Options

This guide covers flexible deployment through sciCloud.net cloud application platform with 50GB included storage, optional additional storage at $1,000/year per 100GB, and LabServer for on-premises deployment at $1,495/year. Both options support the complete LabLynx ecosystem with managed cloud services, system maintenance, and warranty coverage included.