STARLIMS

STARLIMS is a mature, enterprise-grade laboratory informatics platform designed to centralize and simplify complex laboratory operations across R&D, quality control and manufacturing, public health, and clinical diagnostics. With nearly four decades in the market and deployments in over 2,000 labs worldwide, STARLIMS positions itself as a single partner for laboratory digitalization. The vendor has expanded its portfolio through additions such as the cloud-native Labstep electronic lab notebook (ELN) and product lines tailored to public health (Life Sciences for Public Health, LPH) and regulated life-science environments. The company is recognized in industry rankings (G2) and highlights multi-year roadmaps like LPH 1.1 as part of ongoing platform evolution. At its core, STARLIMS provides traditional LIMS capabilities — sample and chain-of-custody tracking, test scheduling, results management, quality control workflows, inventory and reagent management, and enterprise reporting. Beyond those fundamentals, the platform promotes workflow automation (LES-style execution), scientific data management (SDMS) for instrument and file handling, and structured real-time data capture through an ELN. These modules are intended to be used together as a unified informatics stack so teams gain a holistic view of laboratory activity: from experiment design and electronic notebooks, through execution and instrument data capture, to analytics and regulatory reporting. Built-in traceability and audit capabilities support regulatory and public-health requirements, while configurable workflows let organizations model domain-specific SOPs without heavy custom code. STARLIMS is used in a variety of industry scenarios. Pharmaceutical and biopharma teams apply the platform to centralize QC testing, maintain release criteria, and shorten time-to-market by automating sample routing and approvals. Public health labs use the LPH solution to consolidate testing programs, facilitate outbreak surveillance and ensure compliant data exchange with public agencies. Manufacturing and oil & gas labs leverage the system to monitor product quality across global sites and to aggregate results that drive operational insight and risk reduction. STARLIMS highlights customer stories such as a 14-year partnership with Bayer, where a centralized LIMS helped transform global lab operations and compliance for crop protection workflows. Vertical-focused content from STARLIMS also addresses sustainability (lowering pharma carbon footprint) and cost-savings in lab operations. Integration and extensibility are emphasized across STARLIMS’ messaging. The platform integrates LIMS with ELN (Labstep), LES, SDMS and advanced analytics modules to provide data continuity and cross-functional visibility. This supports downstream data science and business intelligence use-cases — for example, aggregating QC trends for continuous improvement or exporting normalized datasets for statistical analysis. STARLIMS offers a support ecosystem that includes a customer support portal, professional services for implementation, and role-based training courses delivered globally to accelerate adoption. The combination of enterprise support, configurable modules, and industry-specific templates makes STARLIMS suitable for organizations that need a scalable, auditable informatics backbone across distributed labs. Choosing STARLIMS is aimed at organizations that want a consolidated informatics strategy rather than a patchwork of point tools: a single platform for sample/data governance, laboratory execution, scientific data capture, and analytics. Whether the priority is strengthening compliance and traceability in clinical or public health settings, standardizing QC across manufacturing sites, or accelerating R&D with collaborative ELN workflows, STARLIMS provides the building blocks and professional services to drive measurable improvements in lab efficiency, data integrity, and decision-making.