Bika LIMS 1.2 is the latest release of Bika's generic trunk and is ISO 17025 ready
- a South African lab has already been accredited using Bika Wine 1.2

All future releases of Bika branches will be made available as 'skins' to be layered on top of the Bika LIMS trunk. Up to version 1.1, Bika LIMS still carried many inherited references to Bika Wine, the branch Bika started out as. These have now all been removed

Accesso

To receive a password to access the installation, please send us an e-mail requesting a logon. We'll provide you with a personal username and password authorising you as a lab manager with access to all available functions

Please log any issues regarding the Bika demo at our SourceForge Tracker

We also have an on-line Bika Interlab installation, demonstrating our web based LIMS for inter-laboratory proficiency testing

Help centre

Please find Training movies, FAQs, Manuals, Links and the like for your assistance at the Bika Help centre

New functionality

New functionality, amongst others, includes reporting the measure of uncertainty for analyses at varying result intercepts, capturing titration volumes and factors, introduces two new specialist roles and surfaces analysis descriptions

The Bika LIMS project page has been updated with the 1.2 functional specification, Modifications to Bika LIMS for ISO 17025 accredited labs. Many smaller issues have been addressed and are listed in the release notes

For Bika LIMS 1.2, Jobcards have been renamed Worksheets. The old Monthly statements weren't real statements as they did not reflect receipts. They are now appropriately called Invoices

True content management

Bika LIMS 1.2 also re-surfaces Plone's content management functionality in its standard easy to use form, enabling laboratories to integrate web content such as interactive on-line training, regulatory and safety information, analysis methods, time sheets, promotions, news and events into their LIMS portals

See the Content example

Feedback

We'll appreciate any feedback, good or bad, on your Bika experience, specifically those aimed at improving the Bika LIMS

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Best Regards
The Bika Lab Systems team
info@bikalabs.com