Research organizations, both in academia and industry, are facing critical challenges as stakeholders are placing upon them demanding expectations to accelerate science and drive innovation.

Have you ever had the feeling that your R&D teams could go much further and way faster if they hadn’t been entangled in cumbersome processes and fragmented legacy applications in their daily work? 

- How to make a reservation for the right instrument to carry out their experiments? 
- What technologies and/or related services are the best fit for a given project? 
- Are there similar projects going on or already completed that may provide insights? 
- How to get easy access to accurate knowledge and/or support from technical specialists when dealing with complex equipment?
- How to optimize the utilization and the management of shared technology platforms?
- How to easily design and monitor an experiment ? How to ensure the traceability of all experiments of a project?
- How to visualize on a single calendar view the availability of all your resources to conduct an experiment?
- How to monitor inventory levels in real time?
- How could you see in a couple of clicks the progress of your various projects?
- How to foster collaboration and dissemination of information among your research community?
- How to locate all your resources on a map and display their current status in real time?

What if all those familiar pains could be relieved by leveraging the power of the Now Platform in the labs? 

Have a look at **newLab** , a user-friendly collaborative and scalable application designed by Keralia Tech on the Now Platform to transform work in R&D organizations.   

**newLab**  modernizes user experience, automates workflows,  provides instant access to powerful analytics and  enables contextual collaboration between researchers, engineers, technicians, asset managers and lab managers. 

**newLab**  makes your R&D teams more efficient, more focused and more involved! 

- Service Catalog / Service Portal
- Instrument Scheduler & Reservation
- Request Analysis
- Inventory Management 
- Downtime & Maintenance Management 
- Usage & Billing Management 
- Experiment Design & Monitoring 
- Collaborative Social network 
- Knowledge Management 
- User Administration & Access Control 
- Reporting 
- Notification 
- Floor Plan 
- Portal Calendar