A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is an essential application for any laboratory's information management infrastructure. Both large and small operations require a LIMS that offers foundation for the implementation of new technologies and seamless integration with legacy systems, as well as a means for sample tracking, prioritizing and viewing work, integrating instruments, generating reports, and ensuring data integrity. LIMS must be flexible, configurable, and open, while ensuring security and complying with government and corporate standards and/or regulations.

LABVANTAGE LIMS is a proven, dependable system that provides a fully configurable workflow design to meet the needs of R&D and QA/QC operations for industries including Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Petrochemical, Environmental, Food, Forensic etc. The system is a fully scalable, flexible, multi-tiered enterprise system designed to streamline the laboratory business process from sample receipt to final report. A product by Labvantage Solutions Inc., it is the most widely used and accepted Laboratory Information Management System in Kuwait.

The Al Essa Group, having the largest informatics group in the region, has been deploying Labvantage LIMS solutions since 1996. We are proud to be listed as a business partner of Labvantage, an elite group that ensures the highest local services of customers. In Kuwait alone, SQL*LIMS^® has been successfully deployed at the following locations

- KNPC Mina Al-Ahmadi - Since 1996
- KNPC Mina Abdulla Refinery - Since 1998
- KNPC Shuaiba Refinery - Since 2001
- KISR - Petroleum Research & Studies Centre
- Kharafi National (Sulaibiya Testing Lab)
- Kuwait University – Health & Science Centre
- Central Analytical Lab - Kuwait Institute of Scientific Research
- Kuwait Ministry of Interior
- Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) - NEW - Implementation in progress
- Ministry of Electricity & Water (WRDC) - NEW - Implementation in progress

As a zero footprint and configurable off-the-shelf (COTS) solution, it consolidates functionality typically found in multiple laboratory systems. With its combination of solutions-oriented modules and multinationalization support, LabVantage delivers the most complete and versatile and multi-site enterprise backbone for the laboratory enterprise.

The LabVantage Suite helps laboratories increase productivity, lower operating costs, and improve quality. LabVantage’s thin-client architecture provides users, both internal and external to the laboratory, with the ability to access LabVantage. Organizations can model their business-specific workflows, seamlessly integrate with robots, analytical instruments, and business applications, and meet government regulations.