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Safety Comes First

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Regulatory Compliance Monitoring Root Cause Analysis & Diagnosis
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	STRATEC is one of the most innovative medical engineering companies in Germany. The development team was looking for a small but powerful object-oriented database that was available in “embedded mode” and would not require any database administration tasks from end users. The company develops and manufactures fully automated analyzer systems for clinical diagnostics and biotechnology. Main applications are blood group analysis, serological tests for infectious diseases, and immunoassays. About 90% of STRATEC’s products are licensed and sold through OEM customers, who market the systems under their own brands, including the chemical reagents. Read More
About Customer	STRATEC Biomedical Systems AG is a German company that develops and manufactures fully automated analyzer systems for clinical diagnostics and biotechnology. The company's main applications are blood group analysis, serological tests for infectious diseases, and immunoassays. About 90% of STRATEC’s products are licensed and sold through OEM customers, who market the systems under their own brands, including the chemical reagents. The company is one of the most innovative medical engineering companies in Germany. Read More
Solution	FastObjects was exactly the type of product that STRATEC was looking for. It offered comprehensive database features such as database transactions, multi-threading, and query capabilities at the same time. The database supports high performance and the development team also benefits from fast and extensive database query capabilities. More importantly, customers will not even notice that there is a comprehensive database working in the background of the analyzer, keeping data safe and consistent and managing critical data without failure or downtime. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Regulatory Compliance Monitoring

Root Cause Analysis & Diagnosis

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

STRATEC is one of the most innovative medical engineering companies in Germany. The development team was looking for a small but powerful object-oriented database that was available in “embedded mode” and would not require any database administration tasks from end users. The company develops and manufactures fully automated analyzer systems for clinical diagnostics and biotechnology. Main applications are blood group analysis, serological tests for infectious diseases, and immunoassays. About 90% of STRATEC’s products are licensed and sold through OEM customers, who market the systems under their own brands, including the chemical reagents.

About Customer

STRATEC Biomedical Systems AG is a German company that develops and manufactures fully automated analyzer systems for clinical diagnostics and biotechnology. The company's main applications are blood group analysis, serological tests for infectious diseases, and immunoassays. About 90% of STRATEC’s products are licensed and sold through OEM customers, who market the systems under their own brands, including the chemical reagents. The company is one of the most innovative medical engineering companies in Germany.

Solution

FastObjects was exactly the type of product that STRATEC was looking for. It offered comprehensive database features such as database transactions, multi-threading, and query capabilities at the same time. The database supports high performance and the development team also benefits from fast and extensive database query capabilities. More importantly, customers will not even notice that there is a comprehensive database working in the background of the analyzer, keeping data safe and consistent and managing critical data without failure or downtime.

Impact #1	STRATEC analyzer systems are based on a 100% object-oriented program design.
Impact #2	As a result, STRATEC could clearly streamline the development process – and deliver products with a long market lifecycle.
Impact #3	Customers will not even notice that there is a comprehensive database working in the background of the analyzer, keeping data safe and consistent and managing critical data without failure or downtime.

Impact #1

STRATEC analyzer systems are based on a 100% object-oriented program design.

Impact #2

As a result, STRATEC could clearly streamline the development process – and deliver products with a long market lifecycle.

Impact #3

Customers will not even notice that there is a comprehensive database working in the background of the analyzer, keeping data safe and consistent and managing critical data without failure or downtime.

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Safety Comes First

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