Summary from Vendor: The e-WorkBook Electronic Laboratory Notebook, provides an enterprise ELN that meets the data management needs of your entire organization, protects your intellectual property, and gives you more time to focus on your research and development activities.
Compare IDBS e-Workbook to other options in the Electronic Lab Notebook Matrix.
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Features & Specifications
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Interactivity
Interface functionalitySearch functions can search across file formats and beyond typos
- Able to search for documents within the platform, able to search beyond file formats, able to search beyond typographical errors, transparency of file structure
Ability to manipulate files and images
- Can manipulate text documents, spreadsheets, images, and other data sets
Support for multiple open windows
- Yes
Ability to link out
- Yes
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Support for Researcher Documentation
Documentation and metadata creationHyperlink Support
- Yes
Metadata Creation Prompts
- Yes
Rights Management (Licensing)
- Yes. IDBS software is licensed, not sold. All ownership, title and intellectual property rights in and to the software (if any), accompanying your order, including any associated media and any documentation or printed materials are owned by IDBS or its suppliers. All orders are subject to your consent to any applicable license that is delivered with or included in the item.
Protocol Integration
- Yes
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Adaptability to Lab Workflows
Platform compatibilityAccounts/Permissions Levels
- Yes
Internal Data Sharing
- Yes
Adaptable to a Variety of Workflows
- No information provided
Compatibility with authoring tools
- Not applicable
Windows Compatible
- Yes
Macintosh Compatible
- Yes
Linux Compatible
- No
Android Compatible
- Yes
iOS Compatible
- Yes
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Storage
Available data storage optionsCloud Storage
- Yes
Local Storage
- Yes
Hybrid (cloud/local) Storage
- No
Versioning
- Templates, protocols, and experiments are fully version controlled, including a full version history. Authorization to make modifications can be appointed to certain group members on a project-by-project basis, if desired. Changes are stored in version history and after changes have been made they can be re-reviewed and re-approved.
File Redundancy
- No information provided
Creates stable URLs or persistent identifiers for entries
- Yes
Can unregistered users access the data found at persistent links?
- No
Storage Capacity - Users
- 1 TB per user (amount can be increased as needed)
Storage Capacity - Max File Size
- No information provided
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Hosting
Software accessCloud
- Yes
Local
- Yes
Hybrid (combination of cloud and local)
- No
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Support
Training and maintenance offeredTraining
- Administrator, user-oriented, in-person, and computer-based training
Documentation
- FAQs, support forum, video tutorials, instructions, troubleshooting, quick-start instructions
Data Migration from Other Systems (incoming migration)
- Yes. The tool is file-agnostic
Compatability with data repositories
- Yes, users can save any files from experiment or create a PDF of experiment to share
Exit Strategies (outgoing migration)
- Upon the effective date of any expiration or termination of the Software Services Agreement, within 30 days of that date IDBS will make available a downloadable file of the customer’s data in a commonly readable format. If the customer requires data in a specific format, they will have access to IDBS Web Services to export data.
Recovery Options
- Restoration can be conducted to point-in-time backups, allowing data restoration to any transaction within the last 7 days. IDBS simultaneously operates a mirror system at a hardened data center facility that is geographically remote from the primary system on which the Services are hosted.
Single Sign-on (Institutional ID)
- Yes
Number of Installations per institution
- No limit
Multiple client use
- Unlimited (provides a per/user license, not device-related license) and available through any browser
Number of registered Harvard/HMS users
- No information provided
Other higher-education users
- Unknown, it is typically used as an industry enterprise platform
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Security
Compliance with Harvard security -
Other
Additional featuresOpen Science/Open Data Efforts
- Shareable through permissions levels. IDBS E-WorkBook is primarily used for non-academic purposes.
Academically Oriented
- No
Cost (per seat)
- No information provided
Dictation/voice input
- No
Data Entry
- Supports Microsoft Office and common image formats using drag-and-drop. E-WorkBook supports the storage of any file in an experiment. Manipulating third-party files will require the application to be present on your machine.
Platform Integrations
- Not applicable
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Tiers of Service
Features and costs associatedThere are no tiers of service. IDBS is an industry, enterprise platform and only enterprise plans.