Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) have wide-ranging usage within pharmaceutical organisations, wherever samples need to be taken, tested and the results evaluated, including QA/QC, stability studies, pre-clinical pathology, clinical trials, biobanking and environmental monitoring. The successful implementation of a LIMS provides an opportunity to improve the operation, performance and efficiency of any laboratory with the added benefit that it supports ISO 17025 compliance, as Simon Wood at Autoscribe Informatics explains.