E-WorkBook

IDBS E-WorkBook is a powerful, flexible software platform that combines Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN), Laboratory Execution System (LES), and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) capabilities into a single, unified solution. Designed for research and development teams across pharma, biotech, chemicals, food and beverage, aerospace, and other science-driven industries, E-WorkBook has been helping organisations become more efficient and effective since 2006, with over 30 years of combined IDBS expertise behind it.

E-WorkBook is trusted by top pharmaceutical companies and large enterprises in adjacent sectors, delivering measurable improvements in compliance, reporting, experiment execution, and study cycle times. Customers have reported outcomes including 60% less time spent on compliance activities, 50% reduction in regulatory report preparation time, 86 fewer report generation hours, 75% reduction in study QA time, and one full day saved per ADA study report, among many other documented efficiency gains.

Core Capabilities

• ELN / Explorer: The core engine where experimental data is captured, providing consistency and repeatability through configurable workflows.
• Advance module: Manages structured data capture and modernises operational practices by improving throughput, analytics, traceability, and sharing of critical scientific data and insight.
• Chemistry tools: Enables users to draw molecules and reactions, run stoichiometry calculations, and record procedures, parameters, associated data, and outcomes of reactions.
• Collaboration: Creates a secure, sharable platform for collaborative working with external partners, eliminating reliance on email file-sharing.
• Request management: Allows users to send sample requests to internal and external partners and track work as it is fulfilled.
• Inventory management: Tracks, manages, and explores how equipment and raw materials are used across experiments, providing insights to improve future experimentation.
• Integrations: Connects instruments and equipment to the platform using pre-built connectors, generic and configurable interfaces, and programming interfaces, including seamless integration with customer LIMS systems.

Demonstrated Customer Outcomes

• 60% less time spent on compliance activities
• 50% reduction in regulatory report preparation time (estimated)
• 86 fewer report generation hours
• 70% less deviation investigation time (predicted)
• 56 fewer experiment execution hours
• 80% less reporting time
• 30% reduction in study cycle times
• 75% reduction in study QA time
• 50% reduction in cell line development (CLD) report generation time
• Doubling of the number of samples analysed
• One full day saved per ADA study report

Customer Success Across Industries

• Pharmaceutical companies such as Chugai have seen productivity gains of up to 30% and reduced reliance on paper records.
• Lonza Biologics achieved continuous improvement across research, development, and business operations with improved data quality.
• Global Biotech reduced data input, capture, and search time by 75%.
• BioIVT reduced study cycle times by at least 30% and enhanced efficiency and responsiveness to biopharmaceutical clients.
• Crown Bioscience achieved a paperless lab, simplifying and accelerating full sample lifecycle data management.
• The University of Cambridge leveraged E-WorkBook for cheminformatics tools to capture and protect intellectual property.
• BASF selected IDBS to supply its enterprise R&D data management platform, improving productivity across diverse research workflows.
• Nutricia Research optimised cross-functional R&D collaboration using E-WorkBook as a model for effective knowledge and data management.
• A major European aerospace manufacturer replaced paper records with E-WorkBook for intuitive data management.

Transition to IDBS Polar

• Polar is a significant evolution of E-WorkBook, designed to support customers' digital transformation journeys and enable the application of AI/ML technologies.
• Existing E-WorkBook customers can migrate to Polar, bringing all workflows and data with them, with options to retain existing capabilities or upgrade to the full Polar feature set.
• Polar adds a robust data modelling architecture, an accelerator library of customisable workflows, a multimodal data backbone connecting experiments, raw materials, equipment and locations, and an advanced analytics engine (Insight) with real-time contextualised data and modern graphical interfaces.
• Polar also includes a centralised Control module for parameter management, process documentation, and process lifecycle management.
• IDBS Global Professional Services supports the transition to make the process as seamless as possible.

E-WorkBook is available with GxP and non-GxP environment options, and Polar offers a managed cloud architecture. The platform supports a broad range of applications including analytical development, bioanalysis, cell line development, DMPK, bioprocessing, process characterisation, screening, and more, serving sectors from BioPharma and CDMOs to CROs, agriculture, consumer goods, and industrials.