Caliber Infosolutions
Abetting Pharma Laboratories Achieve Compliance

Sathya Sekhar Surabhi, a veteran in analytical instrumentation, and pharma testing, recognized the hardship of quality assurance and quality control managers in achieving high regulatory compliance of GAMP and GLP with lesser manpower within limited time. To mitigate this challenge, Surabhi, president and CEO of Caliber Infosolutions, leveraged his experience of over three decades in the sector to help pharmaceutical organizations comply with stringent Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) regulations and standards in an extreme cost containment environment. “Our goal is to assist pharma customers adhere to various regulatory guidelines and thereby helping them to deliver best-quality products quickly,” extols Surabhi.

Caliber’s flagship product CaliberLIMS is a configurable, scalable, high-performance, and N-tier laboratory information management system which acts as an effective tool for enterprise quality management for regulated industries. The solution enables enterprises to connect with their partners, collaborators, and customers in real time and facilitates paperless automation of the entire lab information workflow. This results in decreased hazards of storing laboratory data, and also prevents the possibility of losing paper documents and records. CaliberLIMS is based on ‘host it anywhere' architecture that enables hosting on LAN, WAN, Internet or cloud platforms, which makes it future-proof. This web technology based design helps the users to execute their tasks easily, and manage their labs efficiently.

CaliberLIMS enhances laboratory productivity by reducing the time and burden of the analyst. Also supervision of analyst’s efficiency and lab actions becomes more effective and effortless with its easy-to-use architecture. Further, the implementation of CaliberLIMS reduces the risk of regulatory non-compliance. Its configurable home page dashboards give quick review of the workload, sample distribution and status, and also management information, which accelerates the data analysis process. The solution can be deployed in three variants—CaliberLIMS, aimed to enhance quality in clinical testing and trials, Caliber Pet-LIMS, designed for laboratories in the oil and petrochemical industry. While the third variant Caliber Stability is designed to stability studies on pharmaceutical drugs.

Our goal is to help pharma customers meet their regulatory needs in the laboratories and thereby helping them to deliver best-quality products quickly

Specific to small and med-sized enterprise (SME’s) requirements, Caliber has developed CaliberLIMS eXpand, which inherits a strong foundation from the robust CaliberLIMS standard version. This quality management framework manages the complete laboratory process lifecycle from sample management, inventory and competency management, quality, reports and document management, integration to other laboratory systems, facilitating communication with other corporate systems.

Due to the enhanced scalability and availability, CaliberLIMS is widely adopted by many pharma and biotech companies worldwide such as, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, Unichem Laboratories and Dabur Oncology from UK, US Vitamins, Wyeth, Matrix, Ajanta Pharma, NATCO based in U.S. “Our customer support and quick turnaround for the enhancements have been highly appreciated by industry leaders,” says Surabhi.

For the coming years, Caliber plans to productize CaliberLIMS as a standard laboratory information management solution for multiple sectors, such as petrochemical, food, agriculture, and water treatment. Also the company is conceptualizing new change management and deviation management software and document management system for the regulated pharmaceutical industry. In addition, as a part of their global footprint, the company envisions to grow its presence in the developed markets of U.S. and Europe, with a foremost focus on the fast growing markets in developing countries.