To our STARLIMS friends and partners, thank you for a thrilling year! Can you believe all we’ve accomplished on this trip around the sun?
Last year, we recapped 2023’s stellar moments. Today, let’s journey back in time to revisit the achievements that shaped our 2024…
STARLIMS is 3 Years Old
STARLIMS officially turned three in 2024—well, sort of. While STARLIMS was originally established in 1986, the brand was acquired by Abbott Labs in 2009 and remained retired for 12 years.
In 2021, STARLIMS began an exciting new chapter under Francisco Partners, breaking away from the corporate umbrella to stand independently and reviving the brand for a fresh start. In 2023, we introduced our new brand, and throughout 2024, we’ve focused on building a strong foundation to connect with those who can benefit most from our partnership.
Customer Success Stories
We want to thank our customers profusely for sharing their stories with us about how STARLIMS is supporting their digital transformation. Here are just a few examples…
Bayer consolidated the management of global laboratory operations within a centralized LIMS from STARLIMS, helping Bayer CropScience’s regulatory and GxP labs achieve streamlined compliance. Check out the case study or read the Q&A with Bayer AG’s business solution architect.
MK Restaurants spends 64% less time manually documenting data throughout the testing lifecycle with the LIMS from STARLIMS
Newform Foods is improving replication rates in their R&D experiments with support from the Labstep ELN from STARLIMS.
Stanford’s Innovative Medicines Accelerator, a division of Sarafan ChEM-H, is using Labstep to drive R&D within their Protein Engineering Knowledge Center.
RenBio, Bioenvision, and Elypta all organize their R&D experiments within Labstep.
Your stories inspire us to work harder. Please continue to share your successes with our team! Find all our customer stories here.
Our Team Traversed the Globe
From New Orleans to Hangzhou, China, the STARLIMS team has worked to meet our customers where they are. We started off the year in NOLA for our annual sales kick-off, with inspiring educational sessions and an energizing music scene. From there, our team was thrilled to participate in industry events like APHL, Lab of the Future, ArabLab, and more! We also worked with partner Sinowit to host the China User Forum and hosted our global Virtual Connect 2024 in September.
And we can’t forget all the educational virtual events our teams put together to share new products, thought leadership, and create spaces for community building. Thank you to those of you who could attend or participate in our virtual events or in-person meet ups. We look forward to continuing to connect in 2025!
Our Tech Stars Delivered the Next Generation of STARLIMS Solutions
In January, STARLIMS unveiled Life Sciences for Public Health (LPH) 1.0, our LIMS for Public Health, to reaffirm our commitment to leadership in the public health sector of the LIMS market. LPH 1.0 represents a significant leap forward, with an upgrade to HTML5 browser-based technology. This advancement offers a modernized, intuitive user-experience. LPH 1.0 is just the first step of a robust, multi-year product roadmap, so stay tuned for more updates to our Public Health solutions!
In April, we revealed the launch of STARLIMS Advanced Analytics 2.0! This upgrade comes with a more powerful analytics engine and new capabilities like AI-based natural language processing, so customers can make better, data-driven business decisions that improve laboratory productivity. With real time data analysis and stunning data visualizations, you have everything you need to support success in your business.
Labstep, though new to the STARLIMS universe, had a launch this year! In July, Labstep released Status Workflows, an upgraded functionality that will give scientists, product developers, and R&D resources greater visibility over the state of their projects, as well as the ability to enforce processes and signature requirements to enable compliance.
In the same month, STARLIMS introduced Life Sciences (LS) 11.5 for Clinical Labs, which features advancements designed to simplify lab operations, accelerate sample processing times, and provide labs with better oversight and control of activities and resources. With several enhancements to the Workflow Engine and streamlined LOINC import, LS 11.5 will enable labs to quickly identify bottlenecks, allocate resources, and remove roadblocks.
Shout out to our product team for all the incredible launches this year! You go the distance when it comes to delivering smoother and more effortless lab operations for our customers.
Our Customers Rank STARLIMS Above the Rest
Thanks to our incredible customers, we’ve risen to the top of G2 and proudly maintained our leading position for over a year. At STARLIMS, we deeply value customer feedback, which drives our growth and fuels innovation to better meet their needs.
You can learn more about why STARLIMS is a cut above the rest in our blogs from spring, summer, and fall. We closed the year with several badges and an impressive average score of 4.5 out of 5. Securing the top spots in G2’s LIMS and SDMS categories underscores our status as the global industry standard for laboratory informatics.
The STARLIMS Marketing Marathon
2024 has truly been a year of growth! With some unforeseen obstacles our team is proud to have persevered and innovated in the face of the unexpected.
We gave the world the first inside look at the R&D Quality Manufacturing Informatics Platform. Featuring mini-demos of each technology in the platform, this video spotlights the value of having one complete informatics platform for manufacturers. We also put some grease into our YouTube Channel to improve usability and make our content more accessible!
We launched four foreign language sites for our global customer base, an incredible achievement and display of commitment to our worldwide leadership. Our international community can now access STARLIMS updates and educational content in French, German, Mandarin, and Japanese!
We hosted five thought leadership webinars, featuring subject matter experts on topics from Food and Beverage (F&B) to Research and Development (R&D).
In continuing to deliver more engaging and interactive content, we released three cornerstone educational pieces in in 2024.
Are you a manufacturer looking to launch your search for a LIMS, but don’t know where to start? Or, are you considering harmonizing your data across labs, but need advice on best practices?
Check out the Ultimate LIMS Playbook for Manufacturers.
Are you a manufacturer looking to unify all your laboratory data across various systems and equipment, but you need help building the business case?
Calculate your potential savings with the R&D Quality Manufacturing Informatics Platform on our ROI Calculator!
Are you in the most innovative lab in your field, but still using stone age note-taking methods? Trust us, you’re not alone…
Learn more in our digital eBook: Navigating the R&D Race.
In 2025, we’ll continue to grow our library of educational content to help your labs succeed. To stay up-to-date on all STARLIMS content, subscribe to our newsletter, the STARLIMS Monthly Horizon, below in the site footer. Or, check out some of our latest articles and blogs.
Our marketing team has also expanded our web presence with the Labstep website and social media, pulled together several events, and grew our outbound campaigns to get the word out there about the value STARLIMS has to offer. Congrats to our marketing team for these achievements and much, much more that goes on behind the scenes to make STARLIMS shine!
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2024 was a multiverse of achievement, and it’s all thanks to each one of you. As this chapter comes to a close, let’s carry our momentum forward into a new year filled with innovation, collaboration, and shared vision.