The Digital Lab

If only the media landscape is taken into account, Europe would already be fully digitalised. A real industry 4.0 Wunderland. But if you then look into the reality in the form of a randomly selected company, laboratory or other enterprise, the digitalization is quickly over. It is printed out what the printer is capable of, documents are still filled today as diligently as 30 years ago and the networking of different devices, applications or sectors is at best implemented rudimentarily.

Even in 2020, every laboratory will initially still be one thing: a real individual case! In contrast to many other industries, laboratories cannot use standardized software solutions for efficient data management - too specialized are the amounts of information that need to be generated, managed and interpreted in laboratories on a daily basis.

Everybody is talking about Big Data and digitalisation in 2019. Because we are collecting data at an unprecedented level. While in 1992 we produced around 100 GB of data per day, by 2018 it was already 50,000 GB - per second (source: http://www.vcloudnews.com/every-day-big-data-statistics-2-5-quintillion-bytes-of-data-created-daily/).