Software Solutions

Retriever™Delivering Business Intelligence from Laboratory Data

Retriever is a web-based enterprise reporting application that enables secure, immediate access to data from one or more corporate informatics systems

A graphical report showing concentra-tions for inter-run QC standards in Thermo's Watson LIMS.

Challenge

There are a number of challenges facing an organization to effectively use its laboratory data to make rapid business decisions. Companies spend large sums of money to implement and validate varied data systems within their laboratories. Everyday users of these systems develop the skills and techniques to access the data they require to perform their daily work. For infrequent or non-system users, such as Laboratory Managers or the customers of these laboratories, access to the stored data is difficult or completely unavailable. Extracting the data often requires assistance from IT departments or for laboratory personnel to access the individual data system to collate and deliver the required information.

This can be made all the more difficult when acquisitions and mergers introduce additional systems to the company’s

network. The result? A requirement to share data from multiple, varied legacy systems.

Additionally, companies face difficulties in maintaining secure access to data in legacy systems when they migrate to newer solutions to take advantage of advances in technology or functionality. The ability to easily retrieve data from multiple systems, in a single interface, is required.

Thermo’s Solution

Retriever is a fully web-based data extraction and presentation solution that enables data from any informatics system, current or legacy, to be directly accessed by the appropriate people within your organization.

Retriever extracts, aggregates and transforms this data into ‘laboratory information with a business context,’ which enables the organization to use the data to make rapid, informed business decisions.

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Informatics Headquarters 1601 Cherry Street, Suite 1200 Philadelphia, PA, 19102(215) 964-6020 tel (215) 964-6021 fax www.thermo.com/informatics

Web-based Enterprise Reporting Application

Retriever

Retriever users do not need to have access to the individual data systems from which the data is extracted, and data from all systems is available via a single, intuitive user interface.

Secure, Immediate Access to Reports Retriever enables users to access data via pre-configured reports. Reports are configured using Crystal Reports from Business Objects and can include textual, graphical and tabular data. Each user is defined within the Retriever security system, allowing precise control over which reports the user can access. Since data is reported directly from the source database, changes to data are displayed in real time.

Data ViewsRetriever data views present the data in a Windows® Explorer paradigm. Retriever enables the data displayed in both the tree and the details grid to be configured to meet the specific business needs of the view.

Data views enable Retriever users to find and display the data they need to make business decisions without relying on hard-copy reports that may be out of date as soon as they are printed.

Report OptionsOnce a report has been generated, Retriever provides a number of options for utilizing that report. Users can:

• Print to any Windows® printing device • Export in a number of common file formats (including PDF,

Word document, RTF, Excel®)• Save in the source application or the Retriever database as a PDF

or Word document – providing a record of the report generated• Export to Thermo’s Watson LIMS™ Document Management

System

The Retriever report viewer screen provides textual searching capabilities that enable a user to find text within the report contents (e.g. to search for a “Rejected” sample amongst a list of samples for the previous month).

Simultaneous Multi-Language SupportRetriever enables users in different geographical locations to navigate the user interface in their own language. This ensures that data can be extracted from enterprise systems that may be in a single language.

Partnering with ThermoThermo is the worldwide leader in laboratory software and related services, providing enterprise-wide, multi-laboratory solutions – including LIMS and CDS – that have become the corporate standard at leading organizations. To support our global customers, Thermo provides implementation, validation, training, maintenance and support from the industry’s largest worldwide informatics services network.

Retriever enables data extraction and presentation from Thermo’s comprehensive portfolio of LIMS solutions, including SampleManager, Darwin, Nautilus, LabManager, Watson and Galileo.

For More InformationVisit us on the web at www.thermo.com/informatics or call +1 866-463-6522 (US) or (44) 161 942 3000 (Intl).

The Retriever home page (left) provides access to the system components. A “My Retriever” view (above) gives users access to reports and data for which they have permission.

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