CERF Electronic Lab Notebook

The name CERF stands for Collaborative Electronic Research Framework. Used by major research companies, universities, and institutions across the globe for over a decade, CERF is an award-winning Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) and sophisticated document management solution for capturing, protecting, sharing, mining and efficiently leveraging institutional knowledge. In your lab, it replaces inefficient paper notebooks, and in your office, it replaces ad-hoc shared drives, SharePoint, Dropbox or other clumsy and hard to administer document management systems. CERF ELN allows organizations to enjoy greater efficiency, dramatically improved accuracy, configurable regulatory compliance, precisely controlled collaboration and easy oversight, all in a single, stand-alone system. CERF is extremely flexible. It supports the file formats and scientific data types you already use and includes a wide range of management tools for SOPs, samples, ontologies, digital signatures and more. In fact, CERF is the only ELN currently available that offers true PKI hashing of your digital signatures, offering the most non-repudiable 21 CFR 11 compliant protection of your Intellectual Property. CERF is ideal for Discovery, GLP or FDA regulated labs or organizations that want to observe ALCOA-PLUS good documentation and data integrity practices. Enjoy the functionality of an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), Enterprise Document Management System (EDMS), Laboratory Information System (LIS) and Scientific Data Management System (SDMS), all in a single solution. With a rich feature set that enables organization-wide data capture, "round-trip" or "off-line" file editing and knowledge classification via customizable semantic metadata, CERF is the best ELN for organizations that need a truly cross-platform Lab Notebook. CERF can also fill the gaps between systems too, helping you capture and version key knowledge assets that may be critical during audits or due diligence investigations, but which other systems have failed to track. CERF consists of the CERF server, where your data is kept, and any number of CERF clients. For long-term sustainability and security, we recommend that the server is installed on a physical machine on your site, but you can also choose a virtual or cloud-based host of your choice. The server consists of the CERF server application, the secure file store (where attached data files are kept in their native format) and a referential SQL database that ties the whole system together. The free CERF client application, used to access the server, is available for Windows and Mac OS. A free Apple iPad application is also available on the iTunes store. You may install the client on as many computers or iPads as you like. Scientists can log in from any computer with the CERF client installed and immediately start work. Their data is stored not on the local workstations, but on the central, secure server. Licensing is perpetual and is based on seats. You pay for access by specific named users. If a user leaves your organization, the vacated seat becomes available to someone else. Examples of the intended audience for CERF include: Commercial and institutional FDA regulated biomedical labs, particularly those anticipating formal SOP management or audit assistance. Government and defense labs requiring a sealed solution with no access to the internet. Commercial labs with stringent IP protection requirements. Biopharma, technology R & D, medical instrument organizations and businesses that require data management