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How an emerging research company now leads diagnostic testing across global markets with Simplica managed cloud services
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Overview
Challenge: Safeguard millions of patient samples
After over a decade of research, a small neuroscience company achieved a medical breakthrough for Alzheimer’s disease. This breakthrough uncovered a massive demand for their diagnostic testing services.
Now, they contended with a patient sample count that was expected to reach 2 million per year.
This company needed the right infrastructure to bring their revolutionary discovery to a larger market.
Solution: Scale with managed cloud services
Leveraging Simplica’s technical expertise, this company can now release their Alzheimer’s breakthrough to substantial global markets. Now, they entrust millions of patient samples and testing data to Simplica Cloud.
With Simplica Managed Cloud services, they gained the following:
- Fully Managed LabWare LIMS migration to Simplica Cloud
- Infrastructure Growth Plan to scale with their global testing initiatives
- Cloud Data Management and Collaboration Tools with world-class compliance and security measures powered by AWS
The Background: A Medical Breakthrough Occurs
In 2021, a neurological research venture came to Simplica. They were looking for a technology partner that could accommodate their expected growth.
Just the prior year, the company had cemented their place as a leader in their field. They had released an incredible breakthrough - an early stage test for patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
The demand for these tests soared as they became a national medical topic. After over a decade of difficult research, this company had finally paved the way for affordable, accessible, and early Alzheimer’s testing to exist.
Yet, they could only support a small volume of patients’ test samples.
What was keeping this revolutionary solution from reaching all patients?
The Challenge: Bringing Testing to all Alzheimer’s Patients
Widespread access to early Alzheimer’s testing could potentially save many lives while using fewer resources to do so.
This ideal was only true on the patients’ end. An early-onset test would help many patients take action at a lower cost.
On our customer’s end, Simplica recognized that a powerful digital infrastructure would be needed. Having an expansive vision, they were determined to transform the outlook for Alzheimer’s patients on a global scale.
Yet, our customer had operated out of a single laboratory since its founding. They had never handled such a huge influx of test samples and data at once.
The company’s background raised other challenges that can inhibit innovative ventures:
- Limited computing resources, leading to weaker data analysis abilities.
- Utilizing an on-premise cloud infrastructure, leading to higher costs, higher resource needs, and weaker security.
- Lack of IT support, leading to limited monitoring and technological support for existing data.
With the lives of Alzheimer’s patients on the line, our customer needed to move this sensitive data off-premise and into a secure cloud.
Only a robust cloud infrastructure could support a widespread Alzheimer’s testing rollout. As a LabWare customer, this company needed a solution that could integrate easily with its existing LIMS.
Fortunately, they knew just where to turn for LabWare LIMS cloud expertise.
The Process: Moving Alzheimer’s Testing Data to Simplica Cloud
The Simplica team understood that our customer shouldered a great social responsibility. To help, we took technical details off their plate.
We made the process of moving their lab operations to Simplica Cloud simple and straightforward. All they needed to do was tell us:
- How many concurrent users would be on their application at any given moment?
- What type of instrument integration would be needed?
- Was external user access needed?
As a fully managed cloud provider, Simplica handled all other aspects of transitioning their data to the cloud and integrating with LabWare LIMS.
This gave our customer the freedom to prioritize its crucial laboratory operations, while Simplica took care of their infrastructural needs.
Meeting Compliance Needs: The Transition to AWS
By 2023, our customer had begun expanding into global markets. To maintain healthcare compliance across all their initiatives, the company would need a dedicated cloud environment that met international security measures.
Hence, Simplica swiftly transitioned them to our specialized environment in AWS infrastructure.
Now, they could experience the benefits of:
- 24/7 Simplica monitoring and support.
- AWS’ global compliance and availability.
Meeting IT Needs: 24/7 Support
Our customer is an innovative company with ambitious goals. To support their vision, Simplica maintains regular communication with their team to discuss infrastructure growth.
Simplica also provides 24/7 support and monitoring of their cloud environment. When they observe an issue, they can submit a support ticket and we handle their concerns immediately.
Solution: Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Testing ... made Simplica
With Simplica Managed Cloud Services, our customer gained three enterprise solutions:
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A Seamless, Full-Service LabWare LIMS Migration to Simplica Cloud
Our customer needed a smooth data transition to a cloud tailored to their LabWare LIMS needs. Simplica’s years of expertise with the LabWare platform made this possible.
Now, our customer has the freedom to focus on their leading-edge research and testing operations, instead of cloud components. All they need to do is answer a few questions about their application. Then, Simplica provides and sets up all parts of their LIMS infrastructure.
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Secure, Compliant Data Management and Collaboration tools in our AWS-powered infrastructure
Our customer needs to safeguard millions of sensitive patient samples with the right security measures. Additionally, their crucial initiatives continue to expand on a global scale. For each new region, they must meet unique health compliance policies.
Now, our customer can rest assured that they will meet industry-leading security and compliance standards in all their global testing endeavors. As a partner of AWS, Simplica Cloud infrastructure provides healthcare accreditations in seven different countries.
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An Infrastructure Growth Plan designed to scale with our customer’s enterprise-level visions
Our customer needs the infrastructure to support its incredible mission - a commitment to bringing affordable Alzheimer’s testing to a global population. As their testing reaches more patients, the company will have to support higher data volumes.
Now, they can effortlessly scale its infrastructure to handle enterprise data volumes. Taking our customer’s business objectives into account, Simplica has developed a robust growth plan to accommodate increasing test and research data.
Results: Alzheimer’s Testing Goes Global at 2 Million Samples per Year
Since 2022, our customer has taken its revolutionary Alzheimer’s testing to new parts of the world that need it. With partnerships in countries across South America and the Asia-Pacific region, they now plan to expand their testing access on a global scale.
With Simplica Cloud, our customer’s LIMS platform can support up to 2 million samples each year. Our LabWare expertise and AWS-powered infrastructure make this possible by meeting healthcare compliance standards across global regions.
The company also continues to expand its groundbreaking Alzheimer’s Awareness and research efforts.
As of 2024, they have released another next-generation diagnostic test and partnered with multiple healthcare leaders to provide widespread testing.
Our customer gained the freedom to scale their awareness and research initiatives with Simplica’s fully Managed Cloud solution. We handled all technical challenges of infrastructure migration, so they could stop stressing over data and expand their crucial Alzheimer’s efforts.
As for the Future of Their Alzheimer’s Efforts ...
Our customer need not worry about supporting its enterprise vision for global Alzheimer’s testing. Simplica takes care of such details with our tailored infrastructure growth plan. As our customer further expands their crucial work, we are constantly planning to scale for increasing numbers of doctors, patients, and offices.
With our LabWare LIMS expertise, Simplica can handle any challenge that the platform could possibly experience.
Conclusion
Migrating a small research venture’s operations to the Simplica Cloud has transformed their research and testing capabilities to reach millions of Alzheimer’s patients. Now, our customer experiences enterprise-scale computing power, efficient data management, improved collaboration, and enhanced security and compliance.
By embracing Simplica Managed Cloud Services, our customer is well-positioned to continue innovating in the field of neurodegenerative disease diagnostics, while delivering high-quality services to its clients and patients.