Clustermarket vs. Orchard Harvest LIMS

It is well suited to lab bookings

Harvest is the smaller LIS software that Orchard offers. It is best suited for smaller starter labs that don't have a ton of samples coming in. Larger labs that have a lot of samples coming in and multiple integrations with other EHRs and state reporting setups should look at using Copia\Sequoia since it is built for more throughput.

Incentivized

• They have merged two labs into one for me
• They have added more labs for me as my institution has them locked
• They have told me how i am unable to change bulk access times and have to go into each person to change

• Good for small labs
• Good support
• Configurable for your environment

Incentivized

• Visibility on inventory
• Instructor being able to edit equipment added by others
• Maintenance repeat booking being able to edit separate dates

• User Interface - The software is like 25 years old, and it feels like it. They have added some buttons and links to try to make it easier, but it's not as flashy as the SaaS applications that are being built these days. It feels like there isn't a lot of time spent on refining the features, just adding more to it.
• Archaic Architecture - The application use 4D for the database. This means that you can't use SQL for queries, latency is a huge issue and there isn't a hosted option. You have to have your own in-house server to run the server application.
• Client is an Application - We have workstations dedicated to managing the interfaces. These workstations have to run the application as a program and can not run them as a service. This means that if you want to apply Windows updates it required manually closing and re-launching the application.
• Data Mining - There are some basic reports, but they do not really allow you to build complex reports about the patients or work being performed.

Incentivized

It is fairly limited for our targeted use which i know is not its main function.

Clustermarket was all that was available to us at the time and I believe there is still nothing more suitable other than Microsoft bookings but I prefer Clustermarket.

I haven't had the opportunity of using other LIMS applications.

Incentivized

• Combines all our labs for ease
• Simplifies booking

• The support provided by Orchard Software for Harvest allows me to not have to worry as much about the system. I can grant them access to my system and trust them to work on the issue while I work on other issues.
• The automation saves a lot of time for those in the lab. There have been a few times that the lab has been down for a couple of hours and having to catch up and enter the results from the instruments manually can take the rest of the day.

Incentivized