Haven’t upgraded in a while? You’ve got some catching up to do.
OpenLab CDS isn’t just evolving, it is transforming how labs operate. What might have seemed like minor releases before now work together to deliver substantial workflow benefits that are impossible to achieve with older CDS versions.
Your chromatography data system is a critical component for your laboratory and organization. Don’t settle for outdated software that relies on inefficient processes. Now’s your chance to catch up on what you’ve been missing and level-up your lab operations.
- Say goodbye to external spreadsheets — Keep all your data in one place
- Stop letting manual tasks slow you down — Automation delivers consistent, error-free results
- Avoid scrambling before an audit — Stay audit-ready with built-in technical controls
Watch as OpenLab CDS tackles the toughest lab demands without hesitation.
Beyond individual features—Enhancements that work together
These enhancements work together to create a connected data system where data accuracy, workflow consistency, and reliability are embedded in every process.
End spreadsheet chaos, trust every result
Still exporting data to spreadsheets? These manual transfers waste valuable time while introducing spreadsheet-based calculations that disrupt workflow efficiency, require repeated analyses, delay critical decisions, and lead to questionable results due to data integrity concerns.
Now imagine calculations built directly within the software. Yes, OpenLab CDS can do that.
- Reduce costly calculation errors - Prevent calculation inconsistencies with the most comprehensive toolset of industry-standard analytical calculations—including ASTM methods, RGA/NGA analysis, and more—built directly into the software, eliminating the need for error-prone external spreadsheets.
- Save hours per analysis - Beyond standard calculations, our powerful custom calculator lets you create sophisticated analyses directly within your workflow using pre-built formula components based on any signal, peak, injection, or sequence value.
- Enhance data integrity and traceability - Keep all calculations embedded in your results data, within one validated environment from acquisition through final reporting.
- Eliminate macro usage - No need to generate macros to complete calculations or create specific reports—these capabilities are built natively into the core software using custom calculator and advanced reporting. And if you ever require custom macro development, our services are available to help.
Eliminate error-prone steps, achieve reliable results
Is variability in manual processes costing you time and confidence? Manual time-consuming steps create inconsistency across analysts and samples—resulting in inconsistent data, extensive review and rework, and compromised confidence.
Now, consider automating processes that deliver consistent results every time. Yes, OpenLab CDS can do that.
Standardize every analysis - Eliminate operator variability with Integration Optimizer and enhanced quantification tools that deliver consistent, reproducible results every time–regardless of sample complexity or who performs the analysis.
Get it right the first time - Enhance your workflow with software add-ons like Sample Scheduler and Advanced Sample Linking that convert error-prone manual routines into automated processes eliminating transcription errors and ensuring accurate data transfer without manual intervention.
Integrate seamlessly with LIMS - Sample Scheduler connects directly with your LIMS, preventing manual data entry mistakes, automating sample routing, and eliminating tedious transcription of IDs, methods, and results—saving hours of labor.
Overcome audit anxiety, achieve data confidence
Is your lab prepared for an unannounced audit today? Traditional manual processes create uncertainty and stress around data integrity, turning audits and inspections into emergency drills that consume weeks of preparation to ensure regulatory adherence.
Now envision a system that keeps you audit ready every day. Yes, OpenLab CDS can do that.
- Protect the integrity of your data every day, not just inspection day - Create a secure, traceable environment with electronic signatures and role-based permissions that enforce proper access controls, supporting ALCOA+ compliance rather than scrambling before an audit.
- Shift from reactive preparation to continuous readiness - Eliminate weeks of documentation gathering that disrupts operations. Access automated documentation generation, comprehensive audit trails, and version control for a result set, methods, and report templates.
- Streamline compliance as a daily practice - Ensure staff only run approved methods based on their role, with comprehensive tracking of authorizations and changes throughout the method lifecycle.
- Minimize validation disruption - Let our CSV experts support you through compliant system set up while completing full computer system validation, making software upgrades efficient, cost effective, and timely.
See the bigger picture—Access exclusive capabilities that elevate your lab instantly
Beyond core enhancements, upgrading lets you access exclusive add-ons designed to boost efficiency, accuracy, and productivity. These are just a few of the software add-ons available, helping you push your lab even further:
- Oligo Analysis Accelerator for OpenLab CDS: Streamline QC workflows for therapeutic oligonucleotides
- Connected Instrument Device: Optimize system management with a simplified client-server setup
- Data Accessibility Tool: Build custom dashboards for lab insights
- Status Board for OpenLab: Get better visibility across your entire data system environment
Doing more starts with OpenLab CDS
Keep your data in one system
Delivering trustworthy results from start to finish.
Run processes consistently
Reducing variability between analyses.
Stay audit-ready
Maintaining compliance and confidence on any given day.
Don’t get left behind—See what you’re missing
Explore the enhancements introduced over the last several releases—each building on the last to drive greater accuracy, efficiency, and reliability in every analysis.
Key Capabilities |
Version 2.5 |
Version 2.6 |
Version 2.7 |
Version 2.8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single sign-on for Windows domain users | ||||
| Hot backup and restore | ||||
| Method approval and obsolescence states | ||||
| UV-based purification workflows | ||||
| Guided integration optimization | ||||
| Spectral smoothing for mass spectrometry | ||||
| Reference chromatogram | ||||
| Cloud deployments for data storage and administrative components | ||||
| Network security encryption | ||||
| Sample submission at instrument (Ad hoc mode) | ||||
| Centrally managed unattended printing | ||||
| Status Board add-on: OpenLab environmental dashboard | ||||
| Improved peak integration for large molecules | ||||
| Sequence wait actions | ||||
| UV library searching | ||||
| Authorship restrictions for eSignature workflows | ||||
| Supports US Pharmacopeia 2023 standards | ||||
| Data flagging algorithms | ||||
| Oligo Analysis Accelerator add-on: Purity profiling of oligonucleotides | ||||
| MS Spectral Deconvolution add-on: Molecular weight confirmation | ||||
| Advanced Sample Linking add-on: End-to-end sample traceability | ||||
| MS-based purification workflows | ||||
| Data Accessibility Tool add-on: Enables custom dashboards and advanced analytics |
For the specifics on version 2.8, see What's New in OpenLab CDS.
Ready to do more with your CDS?
With OpenLab CDS, every enhancement works together to transform your lab operations. Now is the time to take advantage of these benefits and upgrade today—so you can gain greater efficiency and confidence in every analysis. Still using ChemStation or EZChrom? Make the switch to OpenLab CDS and move forward with confidence.
