To achieve improved efficiencies organisations are increasingly focusing on how to optimise one of their key strategic resources – the Laboratory Information Management System, LIMS. Clive Collier of QSI says: “There are probably a lot of companies out there that have old LIMS systems and they are offered upgrades when they approach their LIMS vendor but often only at quite substantial costs. LIMS vendors do not tend to offer free upgrades because almost every system is customised for the client. The vendors invariably charge for every upgrade which makes buying a new LIMS a costly proposition if you want to remain competitive in the future”. As many organisations begin to re-assess their LIMS strategies they are starting to realise that it is possible to get a new LIMS on a rental basis for the same yearly outgoings as they will pay for the annual support fees of a LIMS that they purchase outright. QSI offer such a rental package.