Cloud Computing
Overview
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is a paradigm of computing where the term cloud is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on the fact that a standard depiction of the Internet on network diagrams is often a cloud. As used here, cloud computing is a software delivery method that provides access to scientific software and it’s business and research functionality remotely over the Internet.
What are the Benefits of Cloud Computing?
Staffing and running an IT department is not core to the research activities of today’s life science companies. By leveraging cloud computing services customers do not need to own the physical infrastructure serving to host the software. Using cloud services smart customers avoid the capital expenditure of hardware by “renting” the usage from CambridgeSoft. Cloud customers also benefit by reducing the burdens on their IT, systems, and database staff. Instead, a large pool of customers share the infrastructure and IT costs resulting in lower management overhead, little up-front costs, and immediate access to the full range of applications in the ChemBioOffice Cloud.
Key customer benefits include:
- Affordability - access to world class enterprise software without the typical ownership costs and little to no IT infrastructure needed
- Agility - rapid and inexpensive deployment of the software
- Security - centralized data and applications hosted at a secure data center with optional 24x7 support
- Convenience - location independence with delivery of applications to all a customer’s users regardless of where they are located
- Reliability - redundant servers and disaster recovery at data center with 24x7 monitoring
- Scalability – start with as little as 5 users and scale up to thousands
What is the ChemBioOffice Cloud?
The ChemBioOffice Cloud is a collection of enterprise applications: BioAssay, Inventory, Registration, and E-Notebook, hosted by CambridgeSoft for the customer. The applications are available in two tenancy models:
- Multi Tenant, where there is one instance for all users and data is walled off between entities.
- Single Tenant, where there is one instance per account entity, and both application instances and data are walled off between entities.
ChemBioOffice Cloud Ultra is the premier life science research hosted offering from CambridgeSoft. It includes all four applications - BioAssay, Inventory, Registration, and E-Notebook, as well as 24x7 system support with 4 hour turnaround times, accelerated traffic, weekly database performance checks, nightly data backups with 15 day storage, application phone support, onsite post-deployment training, legacy data loading, BioAssay protocol design (5/month), and E-Notebook configuration enhancements plus much more included. Other service levels include ChemBioOffice Cloud Std and ChemBioOffice Cloud Pro.
Why choose CambridgeSoft?
CambridgeSoft is not just another hosting company. With CambridgeSoft’s Cloud services, customers can focus on the science while CambridgeSoft takes care of the science IT. Our cloud team has a wide range of skills including system IT administrators, Oracle DBA’s, informatics support specialists and project managers all strategically positioned worldwide to provide 24/7 support. In addition the team speaks many European languages.
CambridgeSoft provides added value to customers through:
- Scientific domain knowledge
- Industry best practice and GxP knowledge
- Informatics application support
- Science based IT support
- A wide array of training and support services
CambridgeSoft’s Cloud services provide customers with a personalized approach to cloud computing, allowing the customers to create individually crafted solutions that achieve the flexibility needed to meet changing needs in today’s competitive business climate.
Solution Offerings:
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CambridgeSoft has been offering ChemBioOffice Enterprise solutions for over 10 years with an installed base covering thousands of users at mid-sized to multi-national organizations. We now can offer the same scientist-tested applications to customers of all sizes through an alternative method of access, the ChemBioOffice Cloud.
With ChemBioOffice Cloud, CambridgeSoft’s ChemBioOffice Enterprise applications are now as easy to use as your favorite website or email client.
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BioAssay Cloud provides flexible storage, retrieval and analysis of biological data. Designed for complex lead optimization experiments, the software supports the quick set-up of biological models. BioAssay Cloud includes support for laboratory automation, calculation, and statistics, and also complicated low and medium throughput assays such as animal models and in vivo experiments.
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Inventory Cloud manages data associated with both commercially procured and internally produced materials from procurement or initial production through depletion and disposal. Inventory Cloud includes plate handling for HTS environments, freezer/rack layout and targeting for managing biologicals, full chain of custody, audit trails and reports for GxP and EH&S compliance, request/disbursement workflow for use in both manufacturing and pre-clinical settings, and features tailored to specific material domains.
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Numerous options exist for E-Notebook Cloud configurations for all areas of research and development with full compliance with CFR 21 Part 11 and other regulations. Different workflows ranging from free-form in research to highly structured data entry in GLP environments are supported. Distinct modules exist to support important requirements such as electronic signatures, storage of large amounts of supplementary data, patent reporting, formulation development, screening experiments, method development and validation and batch analysis.
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Registration Cloud is built around robust data model for pure compounds, batches, salt management, automatic duplicate checking and unique ID assignments. Built on the CambridgeSoft Oracle Cartridge, it handles stereochemistry (including advances in relative stereochemistry), tautomerization and structure normalization for duplicate checking. Compounds may be entered individually through a user-friendly web form, through the use of a batch loader, or from the corresponding Inventory Cloud and E-Notebook Cloud. Registration Cloud’s row-level security offers an additional level of data security in addition to customizable user roles.
