waters_connect Software Solutions
Delivering connected science for your lab evolution
waters_connect is an informatics platform that helps analytical laboratories, their scientists, and extended teams to explore, discover, and push the boundaries of how laboratories use information, producing faster, and richer scientific and business outcomes. The waters_connect-based ecosystems provide workflows across a range of instruments and applications — quantitation, biopharmaceutical, and other accurate mass-based analyses — to improve efficiency and reproducibility while reducing manual errors.
The waters_connect platform draws on the strong Waters legacy of excellence in software innovation. The waters_connect platform is designed for data integrity, compliance, security, data accessibility, and sharing. It enables the creation of a scalable ecosystem that includes new capabilities, compatibility with existing Waters software and workflows, plus partner software, providing you with the capability to solve your most complex problems.
waters_connect Software Solutions
Overview
- Increase efficiency and remove complexity with built-in automation, intelligence, and guidance provided by capabilities such as SMART instrument health checks and Exception Focused Review
- Reduce training needs with a modern, streamlined, and consistent user experience
- Scale up the number of instrument systems and concurrent users in a single collaborative environment
- Ensure regulatory compliance and best practices with electronic records, built-in data integrity controls for traceability, and review, and computerized system validation
- Remote access to information and instruments in an environment that is more autonomous and less reliant on users to be in the lab
Recommended Use: For creating connected ecosystems tailored for the needs of analytical labs, their scientists, and extended teams with a scalable informatics platform.
waters_connect Workflow Solutions
waters_connect helps you accelerate the time to outcomes with workflow solutions ranging from quantitative, biopharma, and accurate mass-based analyses helping you reach new levels of efficiency, precision, and confidence.
Quantitative analysis software for tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry portfolio
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Reduce time spent on data review by up to 50% with our unique Exception Focused Review (XFR) functionality -
Process large sample batches fast using accelerated workflows that speed up and enhance your method development process
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Facilitate data integrity by quickly and easily converting data into meaningful results in an accurate, traceable, and secure manner
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Reduce the training burden with software that enables any users to generate high quality data quickly and easily
Tailored solutions for biopharmaceutical LC-MS applications, covering analytical workflows for protein-based therapeutics, vaccines, and nucleic acid-based therapeutics
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Address your attribute characterization and attribute monitoring challenges using app-based integrated workflows
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Streamline data acquisition, processing, review, and reporting with complete workflow solutions to maximize ease of use and accelerate decision making
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Reduce time to results and increase flexibility when screening large numbers of biomolecules, including synthetic peptides and synthetic oligonucleotides
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Routinely monitor biopharmaceutical product quality attributes (PQAs) at the peptide level and identify unexpected peaks with New Peak Detection (NPD)
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Unite product and process characterization with monitoring and release assays using a single compliant ready software solution
waters_connect accurate mass-based solutions for mass spectrometry
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Maximize your productivity with compliant-ready solutions for the analysis of compounds like pesticides, drugs of abuse, metabolites, impurities, extractables, and leachables
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Reduce complexity of accurate mass analysis with end-to-end, “from vial to file”, workflows
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Increase speed to results with confidence in reporting the presence and absence of components in complex matrices
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Support discovery and development routine analyses with versatile qualitative and quantitative workflows
LC-MS data processing software for clinical laboratories dealing with high sample volume, complex methods, large data sets, or outdated software
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Reduce your time spent managing and analyzing LC-MS data by up to 50%
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Quickly identify questionable data with flags, alerts, and issues
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Optimize review based on laboratory standard operating procedures (SOP) and validation limits
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Simultaneously view chromatograms, calibrations, and QC
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Enhance connectivity to reduce or eliminate manual input and streamline connections to lab information management systems (LIMS)
Flexible ecosystem
The waters_connect platform is flexible and enables you to create a personalized ecosystem consisting of instruments and software tailored for your lab. These can be from Waters, third parties, or that you create to harness your productivity with:
- Open data accessibility and partner integrations to customize your total solution
- Extended range of applications to automate workflows, provide new and enhanced capabilities, making general and administration tasks easier
- Scalable instrument systems operation and collaborative concurrent software use allowing you to share work between instruments
- Built-in data integrity controls making it compliant-ready while enabling general best practices to be implemented
Open data accessibility, and partner integrations
waters_connect apps, including third-party software, are powered by the waters_connect Application Programming Interface (API), which enables solutions to be customized, extended, and enriched, maximizing the strengths and features of all the apps involved. This architecture enables delivery of new functionality, features, and updates faster and with higher quality, providing you with flexibility to add new capabilities incrementally.
Extended range of apps
The waters_connect platform supports a wide range of apps designed to reduce the complexity of your analyses while accelerating time to outcomes. This allows every lab to have a customized ecosystem for the laboratory’s needs.
Workflow apps
This range of solutions provides automation, intelligence, and guidance for qualitative and quantitative applications available for a variety of development, characterization & routine workflows. These applications are designed to reduce the complexity of analyses while accelerating time to outcomes. Learn more about Quantitation, Biopharmaceutical, or Accurate Mass Analytical Workflows.
Utility apps
Complementing the end-to-end workflow, easy to learn utility applications provide common underlying functionality to help increase productivity and efficiency. For example, our SMART built-in instrument health checks for self-optimization and troubleshooting, sample submission, method editing, data interrogation, and more.
Administration apps
Designed to help with the everyday management of databases, system users and roles; access to event logging and system-related information; managing system licenses; defining global policies.
Working with a wide network of partners offering products that provide choices for additional techniques, complementary technologies, and integration.
Confidently glean knowledge with scientific libraries
The scientific library functionality within the waters_connect platform offers a streamlined approach to the management of LC-MS data sets and the metadata associated with them. Users can build and curate their own scientific libraries or download Waters approved libraries from Waters Marketplace. With libraries available across a range of applications, they can contain detection results such as retention time measurements, precursor and fragment ion information and collision cross section (CCS) values. The level of detail within the libraries helps minimize false positives and improves search accuracy; and as many of the libraries are curated alongside our collaborators, and built with authentic standards, users can confidently glean knowledge and information on their sample sets. To learn more, visit https://marketplace.waters.com.
Scalable instrument systems operation and concurrent software use
The waters_connect platform provides you with the flexibility to expand your lab and business capabilities. waters_connect user and instrument networking capabilities enables collaborative instrument use with the ability to add more instruments in the future. It also provides the ability to scale concurrent users with a single software deployment. Connecting multiple systems and users into a single deployment provides a higher degree of data control, security, and record sharing for more efficient system management and use.
Safely store records with data management
Centralized repository enables shareability of methods, results, and reports across the entire laboratory reducing discrepancies while increasing productivity and quality of results. Set privileges and restrictions on a user-by-user basis in one central location to provide controlled access and prevent data deletion.
Safely store all your records, including raw and processed data: such as reports, methods, libraries, and other items by backing up this data on a regular basis. Periodic backups protect against corruptions and failures. Secure data with automated, centralized backup and system recovery prevents data from being missed in the backup and prevents data loss while reducing time and variability.
Built-in data integrity controls
Applications delivered on the platform benefit from built-in data integrity controls for traceability, review, and computerized system validation in line with regulatory compliance guidelines. The waters_connect platform and its suite of applications include functionality that allows the regulated laboratory to simply configure and confidently demonstrate all the technical requirements for electronic records as prescribed by 21 CFR Part 11, Annex 11, and other data integrity guidance. waters_connect helps regulated companies meet the core data integrity requirements with a clear plan and strategy for compliance.
