STARLIMS

STARLIMS Corporation

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Software, IT
Founded	1987
Headquarters	Hollywood, Florida,
Key people	Divisional Manager: Mark Spencer
Profit	$ 2.88 million (2008)
Number of employees	162 (2008)
Parent	Abbott Laboratories
Subsidiaries	Starlims Technologies Ltd., STARLIMS Europe, STARLIMS Canada
Website	www.abbottinformatics.com

STARLIMS, an Abbott Company, develops and sells web-based commercial off-the-shelf Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS); Software solutions which manage the collection, processing, storage, retrieval and analysis of information generated in laboratories.

STARLIMS was founded in 1989 by Dinu Toiba and Itschak Friedman. STARLIMS's initial technological goal was to introduce the industry’s first PC-based LIMS at a time when laboratory data was managed through “legacy systems” running on mainframes and mini-computers. In 2005, STARLIMS's entirely web-based LIMS were launched, and in 2007 the company was introduced to the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol LIMS.

In August 2008, the Company announced the establishment of STARLIMS Europe as a result of the May 2008 acquisition of its United Kingdom partner, Lab Data Management Ltd., which is based in Bolton, Greater Manchester.

On 22 March 2010 STARLIMS Technologies Ltd. was acquired by Abbott, based in Abbott Park, Illinois, for a published cost of $123 million.

STARLIMS V10 received Honorary Mention in the Pittcon 2006 Editors’ Award, and as a “Pick of Pittcon” by Scientific Computing World magazine. STARLIMS has consistently featured in the Scientific Computing Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards.

The company's software is used by more than 500 laboratories in over 40 countries around the world. including those of Amgen, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center and several forensic laboratories.Research and Development (R&D), Quality Assurance QA and Quality Control QC are all supported.