The Best way to go if Your Company Wants to Grow

A New Standard of Enterprise Computing is Coming in 2010

BayCom Information Systems - a Division of Camin Cargo Control is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Visual LabPro.Net.

Several of our progressive customers have recognized the need to upgrade their LIMS to a browser-based solution in order to expand their business, and eliminate functional limitations imposed by Microsoft FoxPro development technology. Soon our customers will have the opportunity to seamlessly migrate their existing LIMS data to a web-based LIMS solution that incorporates the highest security standards, most powerful reporting technology currently available, easy-of-use and flexibility that is unmatched by any of the overpriced LIMS products available on the market today.

Upgrading your FoxPro version of Visual LabPro to Visual LabPro.Net will allow your company to take advantage of the more pervasive and extensible information management technologies available on the Internet today as well as the greater abundance of Internet technologies that will be available in the future.

Why should your company consider upgrading to Visual LabPro.Net?

Compatibility with Current and Future Information Management Technologies

Most current and future server-based software development technologies are not compatible with the FoxPro version of Visual LabPro. For example, applications that drive large businesses today require a scalable work-process model that incorporates assembled components that interact within the server framework. Components of this model include methods and services to handle network security, data access, reporting services, file management, session state control, messaging, automation and much more.

Web applications can more easily and effectively share resources across the Internet than Microsoft Windows applications. For example, web applications can call services hosted on any Internet server to perform operations such as user authentication and execute routine arithmetic functions such as test calculations. Web applications can also share distributed resources hosted on other web services such as flash/media players, images and style classes.

Significantly Reduced Hardware Maintenance Costs

We are discovering today that not only are larger businesses imparting more demands on their enterprise application servers and less on their corporate workstations, smaller companies are facing escalating challenges with software that is dependent on the desktop operating system. In addition, many smaller companies cannot afford to continuously upgrade their corporate workstations to satisfy the ever-increasing processing, memory and storage requirements of bloated operating systems such as Windows Vista that are modeled more for the home/multi-media user than business user.

Web-based applications operate within an Internet browser and therefore, are not dependent on the desktop operating system or the type of computer. Consequently, it is a prudent decision for ALL business to migrate towards a server enterprise-computing environment and relinquish their dependency on the desktop operating system.

Seamless and Painless Software Upgrade Management

Whenever updates are performed to the FoxPro version of Visual LabPro, it is usually a timely and painstaking process. This is because many of the updates require a new executable application file to be created and deployed. Creating the executable file only takes a few minutes; however deploying the new executable application file can be a daunting task, since it has to be scheduled when all users can exit Visual LabPro. In addition, users that fail to exit Visual LabPro when requested have to manually be disconnected before most updates can be deployed. This will obviously become more of a nuisance to your LIMS administrators the more your company grows.

Conversely, updates to web applications do not require projects to be recompiled and can be deployed any time without any interference with end-user activities.

The Smartest, Simplest, Powerful Web Reporting Technology Available Today

All of our Visual LabPro customers have experienced the numerous limitations with the Visual FoxPro report designer. Reports rendered in the FoxPro version of Visual LabPro are displayed as screen images instead of objects, making it virtually impossible to dynamically change report layout settings or selected data records after the report is displayed. Visual LabPro.Net reports are developed using Microsoft Reporting Services, which delivers more power than any other web reporting technology available today. In addition Visual LabPro.Net reports and are much easier to develop and can quickly be exported in most popular document formats. Report properties and data filters can be changed while viewing the report instead over closing the report, defining the report selection criteria and displaying the report again. Listed below are a few examples of standard reports included with Visual LabPro.Net