You can develop LIMS solutions in-house to replace your legacy software or purchase the already existing commercial ones. We recommend your organization build a tool depending on your core tasks and processes instead of spending a lot of costs on creating a LIMS you cannot further maintain. Of course, all LIMS solutions are different. Thus, choosing the right system will influence your effectiveness, reliability, and work validity. An appropriate lab information management system has to: 1. Be straightforward when it comes to configurations. That allows for meeting individual client expectations and adopting to continuously evolving lab requirements; Ensure the efficient management of the sample’s life; 2. Offer user-friendly interfaces that provide role-based access control over sampling, testing, and managing data points; 3. Be flexible regarding third-party integrations.