Agilent Adds Electronic Lab Notebook Product Line

Agilent has made software one of its key investment areas and with this acquisition, it can now offer all four major research laboratory platforms (laboratory information management systems (LIMS), data management systems, chromatography data systems and ELNs).

Santa Clara, CA 6/18/07—Agilent Technologies’ Life Science and Analytical Instruments Group has acquired the Kalabie electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) product line from Klee Group. Financial details were not disclosed. All employees of Kalabie have joined Agilent and will remain based in Paris and Montpellier, France. Agilent plans to integrate the Kalabie ELN with its OpenLAB laboratory operating system within the next six months. Bruce von Herrmann, vice president and general manager of Agilent’s Software and Informatics Division, stated, “With the addition of Kalabie, Agilent can provide customers with a complete software solution and a single-vendor approach to their laboratory management needs.”

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