NuGenesis Software Releases Overview

Recommended Use

For customers who:

• For leading pharmaceutical, chemical material, food and beverage, and environmental companies to gain a deeper insight into scientific challenges, accelerate decision-making, and achieve better business results.

Key Benefits

• Unicode support​

• User privilege for "Submit to External" function​

• Submission template for external submissions​

• Submit to external workflow enhancements ​

• Specification Management enhancement​

• Sample submission improvements ​

• Add predefined tests to test request ​

• Test picker enhancements ​

• Improved sample traceability​

• Ad-hoc result templates ​

• Orientation and sub orientation fields​

• Update from method function​

• Display results attributes ​

• SDMS Web service secure connection​

• SDMS-Empower integration ​

• File capture enhancements​

• LMS Component installation

Recommended Use

For customers who:

• For leading pharmaceutical, chemical material, food and beverage, and environmental companies to gain a deeper insight into scientific challenges, accelerate decision-making, and achieve better business results.

Key Benefits

• NuGenesis Dashboards​

• Event logging and metrics​

• Error handling​

• Reporting​

• User management​

• Annex 11 compliance readiness​

• Data retention​

• Legal hold​

• NuGenesis LMS SDMS software development kit (SDK)​

• Archive agent​

• Database insertion (DBI) plugin​

• Oracle 11.2.0.4 support​

• Windows 8.1 support​

• Unify XPS support​

• Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Russian language support​

• Offline storage manager​

• NuGenesis LMS SDMS Data Adapters Release 2​

• NuGenesis LMS SDMS Data Utilities Release 3​

• Paradigm™ Scientific Search Software integration

Recommended Use

For customers who:

• For leading pharmaceutical, chemical material, food and beverage, and environmental companies to gain a deeper insight into scientific challenges, accelerate decision-making, and achieve better business results.

Key Benefits

• Unicode support​

• User privilege for "Submit to External" function ​

• Submission template for external submissions​

• Submit to external workflow enhancements ​

• Specification Management enhancement ​

• Sample submission improvements ​

• Add predefined tests to test request ​

• Test picker enhancements​

• Improved sample traceability​

• Ad-hoc result templates​

• Orientation and sub orientation fields ​

• Update from method function​

• Display results attributes ​

• SDMS Web service secure connection ​

• SDMS-Empower integration​

• File capture enhancements​

• LMS Component installation

Recommended Use

For customers who:

• For leading pharmaceutical, chemical material, food and beverage, and environmental companies to gain a deeper insight into scientific challenges, accelerate decision-making, and achieve better business results.

Key Benefits

• Updated the platform to support Windows 10 clients, versions 1709 and 1803, and Windows Server 2016​

• Updated the platform to support Oracle 12c Release 2​

• Updated the platform to support the most current version of Apache that supports Java 8​

• Updated the LMS Option kit to support the Wildfly application server and Java 8​

• Updated the security libraries used in the LMS base kit (SDMS) to support the most current Transport Layer Security (TLS) security protocols, which are also supported by the LMS Option kit​

• Substantially improved the performance of the Transport Engine (TE) service by turning off a legacy compression feature​

• It is no longer necessary to install the Adobe Acrobat application on the File Capture server for the Adobe PDF data adapter to work​

• It is no longer necessary to specify the version of the Adobe PDF data in the File Capture template​

• Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 365 support​

• Updated Microsoft Office data adapter so that Microsoft Office applications do not need to be installed on the File Capture server​

• The NuGenesis 9 Data Adapters installer automatically includes the diagnostic registry keys that required manual installation in previous releases​

• NuGenesis now includes the Waters Database Manager application for managing the NuGenesis databases, including automatic periodic backups.

Recommended Use

For customers who: 

• For leading pharmaceutical, chemical material, food and beverage, and environmental companies to gain a deeper insight into scientific challenges, accelerate decision-making, and achieve better business results.

Key Benefits

Deployment​

• Updated the Waters Database Manager (WDM) to support the SDMS and SLIM database instances.​

• Updated the LINUX installation scripts so that you can execute them without the highest level of server privileges for simpler deployment within a highly controlled IT environment.​

• It is no longer necessary to install the Adobe Acrobat application on the File Capture server for the Adobe PDF data adapter to work​

Compatibility​

• Now compatible with Windows 10 clients, versions 1709 and 1803, and Windows Server 2016​

• Now compatible with Oracle 12c Release 2​

• Now compatible with Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 365 support​

• Removed support for Russian language, Microsoft Windows XP Servers, Enhanced Search Engine, Storage Gateway option and Empower 2 data adapter​

Performance​

• Substantially improved the performance of the Transport Engine (TE) service by turning off a legacy compression feature​

• Implemented Windows Service Refresh Interval which makes scanning much more efficient as a fast interval is used when records are found​

• Dynamic Target Project names which means one rule can manage multiple projects and any new project.​

• Export project and application settings to an XML file for simpler version comparison

Recommended Use

For customers who:

• For leading pharmaceutical, chemical material, food and beverage, and environmental companies to gain a deeper insight into scientific challenges, accelerate decision-making, and achieve better business results.​

Key Benefits

• The NuGenesis LMS 9.0.2 database schema was tested on an Oracle 19c (19.6) database installed on LINUX Redhat 7.7 and as such is supported by Waters for those customers deploying their systems as noted through the use of their own Oracle license. Customers deploying NuGenesis LMS 9.0.2 on Windows servers using the Waters embedded license will be provided with Oracle 12.2 as provided in earlier NuGenesis 9.x releases.

Recommended Use

For customers who:

• For leading pharmaceutical, chemical material, food and beverage, and environmental companies to gain a deeper insight into scientific challenges, accelerate decision-making, and achieve better business results.

Key Benefits

• Support for the Oracle 19c CDB/PDB configurations. ​

• Database backup functionality for the NuGenesis CDB that includes both the SDMS and SLIM PDBs. ​

• New bundle installer that automates the installation of Server and Client components, thereby decreasing the time and complexity of the installation process. ​

• New SDMS Audit Trail Viewer that operates in the Google Chrome browser and displays audit trail views and searches on a single page presentation intended to enhance the user experience. ​

• New Inventory functionality that includes:​

  • Public filters that allow administrators to configure Inventory and My Work views and tables centrally for use in organizational entities. ​

  • Custom actions you can define for inventory items and call from specific Inventory pages.​

  • System configuration that now includes user-defined generic fields you can propagate to all inventories. ​

• New method for storing larger attachments in SDMS ​

• New Sample Share functionality​

• New SDK Methods

Recommended Use

For customers who:

• For leading pharmaceutical, chemical material, food and beverage, and environmental companies to gain a deeper insight into scientific challenges, accelerate decision-making, and achieve better business results.​

Key Benefits

• The ability to reuse the bundle configuration file for the NuGenesis Client workflow​

• Ability to generate web shortcuts ​

• Instrument synchronization that allows you to automatically create LMS Instrument Inventory items from Empower systems​

• Fit For Use functionality to set the Fit For Use status for Empower instrument systems​

• Inventory Attributes that allows you to add information to items in the inventory, other than generic fields, so that item specific text information is available for re-use​

• Login dialog box was enhanced so that you can make Advanced configurations necessary for communication with Empower October 26, 2021, 715007260 Ver. 00 Page 11​

• The Welcome page can be configured to also display Table Widgets that display LMS data (Samples, Requests, Tests, Submissions, Reagents & Solvents, Instruments), Empower data, or Empower systems​

• Waters System Monitor (WSM) 2.0 tool for SDMS Archive Agents and Empower acquisition devices, which scans and analyzes the content of the SDMS archive agent log file, identifying archive request activities and errors

Recommended Use

For customers who:

• For leading pharmaceutical, chemical material, food and beverage, and environmental companies to gain a deeper insight into scientific challenges, accelerate decision-making, and achieve better business results.​

Key Benefits

Single Login

• All elements of NuGenesis LMS can be accessed via a single login, enabling much easier and faster access to all the features of the software. This also provides additional security as once logged in, access to specific features and functionality is defined by the assigned user privileges. ​

Common Landing Page

• The introduction of a common landing page ensures all users can easily use and navigate the software, regardless of their experience. The welcome page can also be customized according to the users access level and their individual needs. ​

Web Vision

• The NuGenesis SDMS Web Vision no longer requires Internet Explorer but now runs on the latest Web Browsers such as Edge or Chrome. ​

Audit Trail Viewer

• The new SDMS Audit Trail Viewer now segments the audit trail into Category groups which are further segmented into additional categories. This enables much simpler searching and filtering through the SDMS audit trail. ​

Waters System Monitor and Waters Database Manager

• The new Waters System Monitor and Waters Database Manager tools allow users to proactively address potential warnings or error messages from the NuGenesis system by detecting system failures earlier, ensuring the right infrastructure is in place for the lab workflow, and eliminating performance problems. ​

Recommended Use

For customers who:

• For leading pharmaceutical, chemical material, food and beverage, and environmental companies to gain a deeper insight into scientific challenges, accelerate decision-making, and achieve better business results.​

Key Benefits

Document Workflow Compliance ​

• Enhancements in security of the product.​

• More detailed Audit Trail to simplify the review process​

Improved User Experience​

• Automatically save documents upon creation.​

• New SDK function to handle section attachments so customers can easily review any associated documents along with the experiment. ​

Compatibility​

• Ensure compatibility with Empower 3.8.1.​

• Now compatible with Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11 Clients.

Recommended Use

For customers who:

• For leading pharmaceutical, chemical material, food and beverage, and environmental companies to gain a deeper insight into scientific challenges, accelerate decision-making, and achieve better business results.

Key Benefits

Security Enhancements​

• Enhancements in security of the product.​

• Supported Oracle Database encryption.​

• Integrate NuGenesis 9.3 defects.​

Smarter Ways Of Working​

• Empower Data Adapter improvements. [Archive Empower Empty Projects]​

• Clone SDMS File Capture Templates​

• More accurate inventory.​

• Granular permissions in NuGenesis LMS.​

• Stability improvements.​

Compatibility​

• Ensure compatibility with Empower 3.9.0.​

• Now compatible with Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11 Clients​

Recommended Use

For customers who:

• For leading pharmaceutical, chemical material, food and beverage, and environmental companies to gain a deeper insight into scientific challenges, accelerate decision-making, and achieve better business results.​

Key Benefits

Security Enhancements​

• Enhancements in security of the product.​

• Strengthen password policy enforcement.​

• Component updates to mitigate against vulnerabilities (log4net).​

Accelerated Performance​

• Manage SEC-MALS data from Empower to NuGenesis SDMS.​

• Database optimization for NuGenesis SDMS Audit Trail.​

• Query improvements for NuGenesis SDMS Audit Trail.​

Enhanced Compliance​

• Ensure compatibility with Empower 3.10.0.​

• Enhanced access control with new Read Only privilege for templates.​

• Automate user management by disabling SDMS users if Active Directory account disabled.​

Recommended Use

For customers who:

• For leading pharmaceutical, chemical material, food and beverage, and environmental companies to gain a deeper insight into scientific challenges, accelerate decision-making, and achieve better business results.

Key Benefits

Operational Insights​

• Web-based dashboard that displays data from the NuGenesis LMS Oracle Database. NuGenesis LMS Dashboards 1.0.0 extracts and displays summary information for both LMS and SDMS systems.​

• It displays the data as charts and graphs, so you, as a scientist, a department manager, or a lab manager, can use it for statistical analysis, trending, systems maintenance, or operational insight into your NuGenesis system.​

Compatibility​

• Compatible with NuGenesis 9.3.0 and later​

• Compatible with English, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese