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Overview
Embark on your digital transformation journey with the Thermo Scientific Ardia Platform, designed to support your laboratory by leveraging the latest advances in IT.
In an era where laboratories are uncompromising in their pursuit of efficiency, the need for software that seamlessly connects data, applications, instruments and scientists has never been greater.
Explore our collaborative and connected software environment that brings together a growing list of software tools and applications, centralizes scientific data and results, maximizes instrument utilization and accelerates data analysis.
What is the Thermo Scientific Ardia Platform?
Market applications
Solving the proteomics data challenges
Bring together all of your proteomics data and results into a secure centralized location, enabling you to interface intuitively with data, set up automated transfer and processing for faster delivery of results and easily share studies with colleagues and collaborators.
See how you can power your data analysis with the platform that brings your data, instruments and software together in a unified platform to deliver the future of proteomics workflows.
Moving BioPharma forward
Experience the power of BioPharma Finder software connected to the Ardia Platform. See how your laboratory can benefit from enhanced features such as data security, remote accessibility, collaboration tools, and interactive reporting, tailored to streamline your BioPharma workflows, including our end-to-end MAM solution.
Pesticides solution
Deliver performance, assurance and simplicity with our comprehensive pesticides solution. See how you can harness the power of the Ardia Platform to get to your results faster, with central, server-based, parallel processing to reduce the data processing and analysis times of your Pesticide Analysis.
Solving the proteomics data challenges
Bring together all of your proteomics data and results into a secure centralized location, enabling you to interface intuitively with data, set up automated transfer and processing for faster delivery of results and easily share studies with colleagues and collaborators.
See how you can power your data analysis with the platform that brings your data, instruments and software together in a unified platform to deliver the future of proteomics workflows.
Moving BioPharma forward
Experience the power of BioPharma Finder software connected to the Ardia Platform. See how your laboratory can benefit from enhanced features such as data security, remote accessibility, collaboration tools, and interactive reporting, tailored to streamline your BioPharma workflows, including our end-to-end MAM solution.
Pesticides solution
Deliver performance, assurance and simplicity with our comprehensive pesticides solution. See how you can harness the power of the Ardia Platform to get to your results faster, with central, server-based, parallel processing to reduce the data processing and analysis times of your Pesticide Analysis.
Benefits
Ease data management
Take charge of your data to ensure security and accessibility. Remove the barriers around managing large volumes of data with data handling capabilities designed for ever-increasing file sizes. Automated central data storage with backup and archival capabilities enables information from selected applications and third-party software to be securely accessed, viewed, and organized more effectively.
Deliver results faster
Accelerate your results with parallel processing of multiple software functions. Expediting application processing has never been easier for any connected 'powered by Ardia' applications, including selected Thermo Scientific chromatography and mass spectrometry (MS) software.
Future thinking
Advance your digital lab with our built-from-the-ground-up, scalable architecture that economically utilizes computing resources, enhances streaming performance for large files, improves lab uptime, and increases your connection to a wider environment via the web-based application. Discover how architecture has evolved in our blog .
Realize true collaboration
Accelerate project timelines with seamless software communication and real-time global access to data. With a single platform, that can connect a growing list of software (including third-party) you can easily share, access, and collaborate on data. Real-time data updates, shared dashboards, and collaborative tools facilitate efficient teamwork, driving innovation.
See the whole picture
Take control of your laboratory and make decisions quickly, with the ability to monitor the status of all connected instruments running Thermo Scientific Chromeleon Chromatography Data System (CDS) or Thermo Scientific Xcalibur Software. Consolidate and centralize your instrument activities via an online scheduler and digital logbook for effective instrument utilization and accelerated instrument support, while ensuring records are always complete and accurate.
Work smarter, not harder
Free up your time to focus on the tasks that matter most with a platform that can handle demanding data processing requirements. Multitask on an intuitive interface with automatic transfer of data files acquired from Chromeleon CDS and Xcalibur Software to central data storage. Visualize chromatography and MS data from one dedicated application without file conversion.
A connected software solution for your mass spec lab
Whether you are looking to improve your data or instrument management, the Ardia Platform can redefine what is possible in your laboratory. Want to automate data storage and backup? No problem. Need to access data from a lab on the other side of the world? Piece of cake. Want to manage the Xcalibur and Chromeleon software instruments in your laboratory? You got it!
The Ardia Platform connects scientists, data, and instruments effortlessly and securely, enabling scientists to collaborate more efficiently, discover insights faster and get closer to the truth.
Get in touch to learn how you can unlock new capabilities within your existing laboratory infrastructure.
Connected software environment
Bring together your applications and workflows like never before
Designed to evolve with your needs, the Ardia Platform integrates with a growing list of software tools and applications for direct data access and automated data transfer, allowing you to harness the power of a unified platform and eliminating data silos. Automate transfer of data and results from Thermo Scientific software, including, Chromeleon CDS, Xcalibur, Proteome Discoverer, Biopharma Finder and Compound Discoverer, as well as third-party application data via the Ardia Data Sync functionality to provide an open ecosystem to support your collaboration, discovery and bring more clarity and power to your research.
Features
Ardia Instruments application
Optimizing instrument operations sounds straightforward, but often, instruments are isolated making instrument management a manual, time-consuming task. Designed to ease the management of your laboratory, the Ardia Instruments application is the driving force behind managing, scheduling, and monitoring systems, enabling you to get the most out of your instruments.
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Systems
Get an overview of your entire lab and easily access detailed system information to streamline your instrument management. With up-to-date information, even if instrument configurations change, the system overview always reflects the current state of your lab.
- See all instruments configured with Xcalibur Software or Chromeleon CDS in one place
- Get real-time status and data acquisition feedback to enable fast, informed decisions
- Dive deep into individual instruments to see information on software/firmware versions, service contract expiration, and more to facilitate asset management
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Logbook
Eliminate the need for paper notebooks with digital logbooks. Track important events for each system in an accessible and consistent format to demonstrate that instruments are working correctly and ensure that records are complete and accurate.
- Automatically track changes in configurations and automate entries from supported instrument types
- Manually add entries with custom descriptions and attach images, files, and more
- Access from anywhere on your web browser
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Data insights
Utilize out-of-the-box dashboards to provide key laboratory insights on resource availability, instrument status and instrument performance in a centralized location.
- Track and monitor metrics, such as injections, injection time, injection volume, injection type, injection status and % utilization across systems and geographical locations.
- Focus on metrics that matter to you with interactive dashboards that can be filtered by system, system type, location, project, or time.
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Scheduler
Increase laboratory efficiency by optimizing instrument utilization. Providing a single point to plan work, the Scheduler enables you to view system availability, effortlessly reserve instruments, manage schedules to avoid conflicts and increase your utilization of assets.
- Easily book or assign instrument time across one or multiple instruments with single or recurring time windows
- Designate specified times for maintenance activities
- Maintain schedules for other assets in the lab with customizable entries
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Support
Easily request instrument support from Unity Lab Services with the Instruments app. Effortlessly share relevant information to get your issues resolved faster.
- Generate service tickets without the need for phone calls
- Create service bundles that provide instrument logs and other information to help with troubleshooting
- Securely share the data you choose directly with technical support
Ardia Data Viewer application
Providing a single location for review of chromatography and mass spectrometry data, whether acquired from Chromeleon CDS or Xcalibur Software, you can expedite data review with consistency across software products using a simple, intuitive interface.
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Data Viewer
Use the Data Viewer application to view data from all your instruments in one location. With user-friendly features and web browser access, you can simultaneously view and work with data from anywhere with no need to install local software.
- Seamlessly view data collected from Xcalibur Software or Chromeleon CDS – no need to export or convert data files
- Easily display chromatograms, spectra, and linked data-dependent acquisitions
- Perform peak integration, extract ion chromatograms, and view diagnostic channels for troubleshooting assistance
- Export plots in .svg format for high resolution visualization
Ardia Core software
We understand that managing users and large volumes of data, in multiple formats, can be difficult to secure, time-consuming to manage and inefficient to utilize. That is why we have embedded user and data management tools into the core of the Ardia Platform. Embedded into the Ardia Platform are the user and data management tools designed to streamline your administrative tasks to manage users, track actions, and simplify data backup and archival.
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User management
Keep data secure, controlled, and audit-ready with built-in user and data management tools customizable to your organization's specific needs for improved operational efficiency.
- Define privileges for which user actions can be performed within the platform
- Control access to data using a role-based approach
- Customize individual user experiences to your organization’s needs
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Data Explorer
View and organize data more effectively. Store data centrally from Xcalibur Software or Chromeleon CDS and access data remotely from Proteome Discoverer Software or BioPharma Finder Software.
- Organize data based on your laboratory’s requirements with a customizable file structure
- Enable quick record retrieval with flexible search options
- Facilitate method development for complex workflows such as multi-attribute method (MAM) with file sharing between applications
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Audit trails
Audit trail capture is an underpinning function of the Ardia Platform providing audit trail entries that are automatically created when actions relating to managing data, users and settings are performed.
- Automated audit trail generation by the system captures the application performing the action, along with expected information such as user, timestamp and object identifier
- Entries can be viewed in a dedicated Audit Trail Viewer application
- Filter audit trails for quick review with the powerful query system
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Archive and backup
Have confidence in your file security and redundancy measures. System administrators can create a secure environment for files uploaded or managed from anywhere, with backup and archive capabilities as standard, providing disaster resilience and continuous high performance.
- Prompt data archival directly from the user interface
- Server-hosted backup is managed through a separate administrator user interface
- Cloud-hosted backup utilizes universal cloud backup functions from the cloud service provider
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Connected software
Proteome Discoverer Software with CHIMERYS™
Simplify a wide range of proteomics workflows, while supporting multiple database search algorithms and dissociation techniques.
BioPharma Finder Software
Streamline biotherapeutic characterization with advanced capabilities for increased throughput and confidence.
Compound Discoverer Software
Transform your small molecule data, with a fully integrated suite of tools to go from data to insights faster.
Chromeleon 7.3.2 CDS
Deliver efficiency, assurance, and compliance with one software platform that supports your chromatography and MS operations.
Xcalibur Software
Windows-based Xcalibur Software provides method setup, data acquisition, data processing and processing integration to provide higher quality data.
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FAQs
What is the Ardia Platform?
Built using modern technology, the Ardia Platform centralizes scientific data and results, maximizes instrument utilization, and accelerates data analysis. It connects and organizes projects, people, instruments and applications with web-based access and secure data storage, eliminating data silos and enabling wider collaboration.
How can the Ardia Platform help me improve lab productivity?
The Ardia Platform integrates with a growing list of software tools and applications for direct data access and automated data transfer, allowing you to harness the power of a unified platform and eliminating data silos. Bring an end to manual processes and unlock the power of parallel processing all while maintaining the ability to collect and analyze data swiftly for faster delivery of results.
How can the Ardia Platform help me improve instrument utilization and uptime?
The Ardia Instruments application provides a central place that enables the monitoring and management of all connected instruments to enable fast, informed decisions. From within the same application is the ability to perform asset management, submit instrument support requests, automatically record instrument-related activities via a digital logbook and optimize instrument utilization using an online scheduler that provides a single point to plan work, view system availability and set maintenance windows.
How will the Ardia Platform enable wider collaboration?
Centralized data storage lies at the heart of the web-based application and with real-time global access, users can enjoy seamless communication between software that allows for easy data sharing and the ability to work together to gain greater knowledge of the data.
Will the Ardia Platform have security?
Data is kept secure, controlled and audit ready with embedded user and data management tools that are customizable to an organization's needs. Built-in features manage users, track actions, and simplify data backup and archival, streamlining operations and delivering resilience.
Is the Ardia Platform cloud-based software?
While the Ardia Platform is developed for deployment in the cloud it is not limited to a cloud-based deployment. The Ardia Platform is also available as an on-premise solution. The software is provided together with the required (Server) hardware from Thermo Fisher Scientific. This also includes implementation services from our enterprise deployment specialists to set the system up in your laboratory network environment. This setup still provides the technology and architecture of a cloud-based offering but it is completely within your control and security network.
How will the Ardia Platform be installed?
Our Services team will collaborate directly with you and your IT department to make sure that all requirements are met and carry out the implementation.
Can I use my existing software and store my existing data with the Ardia Platform?
You can store any file type and effortlessly integrate with third-party software using the Ardia Platform Data Sync application. Contact us for more information.
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