Bioforte-Lab switched to electronic document management using the Etla electronic archive

2022: Transition to EDO using the electronic archive "Etla"

LLC Bioforte-Lab"," engaged scientific in research and development in the field of biotechnology, switched to electronic document flow using. electronic archive "Etla" The company Etlas Soft announced this on October 7, 2022.

Scientific research is a rather specific area of ​ ​ activity. Many believe that scientists are engaged exclusively in the construction of hypotheses and the staging of experiments, and in such work there is no place for formalities and regulations. This is a mistaken opinion. Scientific work is always documenting the results obtained by strict standards.

The choice fell on the electronic archive "Etla" version 6.6.

Comparing the offers on the market, the laboratory specialists noted several advantages of the "Etla" software at once, including:

• Ease of installation
• flexible settings; Go to
• The ability to extend archive functionality with different plug-ins
• regularity of software updates;
• effective technical support.

The final decision to purchase the license was made after several consultations with the software developer. They not only convinced the management of Bioforte-Lab that the choice was correct, but also made it possible to formulate the requirements for the initial configuration of the archive.

Based on the technical assignment, the technical support specialists of "Etla" have installed and configured the system:

• examined the existing Bioforte-Lab paper archive;
• registered user accounts in the system, formed user groups;
• created an archive structure with distributed access rights for different users and their groups;
• brought the necessary directories into the system;
• have formed several cards for different document types;
• Set up rules for automatic naming, numbering, and posting of documents.
• formed several reports.

All work was carried out by Etla specialists remotely. Information about the existing archive was collected using questionnaires that were filled out by employees of Bioforte-Lab.

After the software installation and initial setup, the system was adapted to the specifics of the document flow of Bioforte-Lab LLC.

An important part of the implementation of the electronic archive was training the system administrator and instructing users. Technical support specialists "Etla" also carried out this work remotely. They described the capabilities of the system for document management, demonstrated its work using examples, talked about plug-ins, with the help of which, if necessary, the functionality of the system can be expanded.