Research and development teams rely on high-quality data to guide their decisions. They also stand to benefit from the use of generative AI to speed up discovery, along with more streamlined workflows that better connect research with manufacturing.
This article explores practical ways to achieve these goals.
When organizations move too slowly, the market moves on
Companies across every industry rely on the speed of their internal innovation cycles to stay competitive in markets driven by constant change and continuous improvement. But moving quickly from discovery to development to commercialization is no easy task.
Many organizations find themselves held back by unmanageable data silos, overly complex workflows, and fragmented infrastructures that prevent R&D and manufacturing teams from operating in sync.
To overcome these hurdles, innovators need closer collaboration between internal functions, such as manufacturing, labs, and quality teams, and external forces like customer demands and commercial partnerships.
At the heart of effective collaboration is one critical component: data. Whether collaboration is embedded in company culture or driven by strategic goals, access to real-time, high-quality scientific data and analytics is essential for building productive internal and external relationships.
These relationships are what enable faster decisions and better, more agile outcomes across the research and manufacturing value chain.
To make this possible, companies need an integrated data analysis environment, along with a dependable connection to accurate, contextualized internal and external data. The life sciences industry, in particular, has laid out a strong roadmap for achieving these goals.
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Lessons from the life sciences: Putting R&D on the fast track
Patients rely on life science companies to bring new drugs to market quickly, but doing so remains a significant challenge in an industry long constrained by breakdowns between R&D and manufacturing, supply chain issues, scale-up difficulties, complex development pathways, and strict regulatory requirements.
Despite these longstanding obstacles, the industry successfully discovered, approved, and deployed COVID-related therapies in just two years. This remarkable acceleration was made possible through the use of high-quality, real-time scientific data that compressed innovation timelines from years into months.
Traditional, time-consuming methods of experiment design were replaced by digitally enabled workflows that provided immediate access to critical clinical data.
Beyond just accessing data, success hinged on the ability to analyze it effectively.
Predictive AI models were used to contextualize trial data and identify vaccine candidates with a high likelihood of success. AI-driven platforms also helped detect and resolve potential supply chain and manufacturing bottlenecks early, supporting faster, more confident downstream decisions and enabling rapid commercial scale-up once approvals were granted.
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This collaborative, data-first model has reshaped the life sciences landscape—but its value extends beyond healthcare. Organizations across industries can apply these same principles to remove operational barriers, maximize returns on innovation investments, and accelerate the delivery of meaningful products to market.
Rapid innovation starts with combining the right solutions in the right way
The LabVantage suite of AI-powered solutions was initially designed to accelerate drug discovery and clear the go-to-market pathway for precision medications. This advanced toolset now enables product innovators across a range of industries to work in a much more rapid and streamlined manner.
The LabVantage suite of technologies has enabled R&D labs in its customers’ organizations to achieve:
- 50 % reduction in analysis effort.
- 60 % reduction in validation effort.
- $1 million reduction in cost per laboratory.
LabVantage supports its customers in removing potential R&D barriers, developing streamlined organization-wide workflows, and implementing an integrated data environment designed to drive rapid and forward-looking decisions via a range of fit-for-purpose solutions.
The LabVantage LIMS platform
The LabVantage LIMS platform has been designed to fit seamlessly into customers’ existing workflows.
It's a fully integrated, code-free laboratory informatics platform that affords users a single, scalable, user-friendly interface for accessing LabVantage’s Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), Lab Execution System (LES), Scientific Data Management System (SDMS), Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), and advanced analytics.
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Discovery can be accelerated, lab throughput can be increased, and downtime can be reduced, thanks to LabVantage Analytics’ AI-powered predictive analytics tools designed to connect users to actionable business insights.
LabVantage Analytics provides innovators a range of benefits, including:
- A single source of truth for all internally generated unstructured and structured data.
- Interactive dashboards and visualizations with powerful drill-down features.
- A comprehensive library of more than 1000 statistical and AI/ML models designed to support low-code AI workflows.
AILANI for semantic integration and search
The AILANI deep learning platform provides R&D teams with the analytical skills of a data scientist alongside the super-intelligence and efficiency of advanced AI-driven algorithms. The AILANI platform provides an intuitive interface able to answer users’ R&D questions across proprietary and public sources. The system can:
- Recognize users’ initial intentions and search for relevant insights across a range of disparate data sources.
- Facilitate groundbreaking research, discover hidden relationships, and promote interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Allow teams to access the data lake: a new data architecture able to meet today’s need for the rapid analysis of diverse internal and external data types
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Summary
LabVantage provides an ideal solution for organizations whose growth is limited by the absence of a focused, efficient research funnel that integrates seamlessly with manufacturing operations.
Designed with these challenges in mind, LabVantage technologies enable users to respond quickly and collaboratively to new discoveries, shifts in market demand, and the evolving needs of customers and partners.
Acknowledgments
Produced from materials originally authored by LabVantage Solutions, Inc.
About LabVantage Solutions
LabVantage Solutions, Inc. is the leading global laboratory informatics provider. Our industry-leading LIMS and ELN solution and world-class services are the result of 35+ years of experience in laboratory informatics. LabVantage offers a comprehensive portfolio of products and services that enable companies to innovate faster in the R&D cycle, improve manufactured product quality, achieve accurate recordkeeping and comply with regulatory requirements.
LabVantage is a highly configurable, web-based LIMS/ELN that powers hundreds of laboratories globally, large and small. Built on a platform that is widely recognized as the best in the industry, LabVantage can support hundreds of concurrent users as well as interface with instruments and other enterprise systems. It is the best choice for industries ranging from pharmaceuticals and consumer goods to molecular diagnostics and bio banking. LabVantage domain experts advise customers on best practices and maximize their ROIs by optimizing LIMS implementation with a rapid and successful deployment.
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