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Commercial Use
FCS Express has been selected by several clinical
instutions for use in
their day-to-day flow cytometry operations. FCS Express is used to analyze
between 15 and 150 cases per day.
The list below highlights some of our
customers.
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"The Hematopathology
laboratory of the Shands Hospital at the University of Florida analyzes
numerous bone marrow, blood and lymphoid tissue samples for the
diagnosis of leukemia, lymphoma and related neoplastic
conditions every day. We have been using BD's CellQuest and
CellQuest
Pro software for our data acquisition and analysis for many
years. While adequate for acquisition, this software has
several limitations regarding data analysis that recently prompted us
to look for alternative programs for our clinical analytical
work. With the introduction of FCS Express 3, De Novo
Software has provided an analysis tool that is completely optimized for
clinical laboratories like ours. Within a short period of
time, we created a drastically improved analysis protocol in FCS
Express and it seems that every day we discover new features, such as
tokens, alerts, panels, etc. that easily allow us to improve the
quality of the analysis. Above all, I am extremely impressed
with the excellence of the support staff that is always available to
answer questions and courteously and positively responds to
suggestions. In my opinion, FCS Express is one of the best
programs available today for clinical flow cytometry laboratories."
Raul Braylan
Medical Director, Flow Cytometry Laboratory of the Shands Teaching
Hospital at the University of Florida
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"In 2004 I was hired to set up and manage
Clarient’s clinical laboratory facilities, based on my 25 years
of experience running several major clinical reference laboratories.
Based on their excellent reputation, and several demonstrations of
their capabilities, we choose to use FCS Express Version 3. There were
three major reasons for this: it was very easy to learn and use, it has
the most extensive feature set I have ever seen to support a clinical
reference laboratory, and De Novo Software was willing to add custom
export functionality to integrate directly with the rest of our
computer systems. During the last two years I have only become more
convinced that we have made the best choice. The software has scaled
from analyzing only a few cases to support our daily work load with
more than 50 immunophenotyping cases a day. Any custom work that De
Novo Software has performed for us has been on budget and they have
delivered under the time lines expected without any delays. Our analysis
time is dramatically shorter than it would be with any data analysis
tool provided by a flow cytometer manufacturer and the ability of FCS
Express to integrate with additional software and systems is
phenomenal. I truly believe that FCS Express is the tool of choice for
the clinical reference laboratory."
Horacio Vall CLS, QCMY(ASCP)
Vice President Diagnostic Services
Clarient Inc.
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"A major decision in our
choice of software packages was dictated by how well we thought it
would integrate with our report writing software (MS Word.) It is my impression that FCS Express does a better
job with interfacing with other widely used software programs than the
two other programs that we evaluated. It is hard to put
into words, but FCS Express also seemed to have the look and feel of
what I thought a "clinical" software program should be. Currently
we spend excessive time in clerical
tasks of transferring numerical values into our reports. In
comparison with the other programs we reviewed, FCS Express seems to
better suited to handle these repetitious tasks that are a big part of
our clinical work and help separate this application from the
needs of a "research" user. In short, the "automation"
features of FCS Express seem stronger which are important to our
clinical laboratory. Currently there is a labor tight
market for qualified personnel in our area and we find it hard to
attract technicians. Moreover it often takes years to fully train
a technician. By using FCS Express anticipate shortening the
training cycle by allowing our technicians more time to focus on the
more demanding tasks in flow cytometry and less on clerical busy
work. We are currently using DiVa, which is a great data
acquisition program, but it does have serious limitations when used for
routine data analysis and report generation thus leading to our
decision to purchase FCS Express."
Nick Gonchoroff
Associate Professor
Suny-Upstate Medical University
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"As a clinical flow cytometry data analysis service provider,
the most critical tool that we require is high quality data analysis
software. Several experts around the world suggested FCS Express, and
after evaluating the software, I can understand why. The software is
very easy to learn, has extensive analysis capabilities and creates
high quality and attractive reports. De Novo Software's customer
service is exceptional, and they rapidly answered any questions that I
had and helped me resolve any issues that I had. I easily created an
elaborate layout in FCS Express that is completely optimized for my own
personal analysis style. I highly recommend FCS Express for anyone
doing clinical flow cytometry data analysis. "
Mariella Monreal
President
Interpflow
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FCS Express has many many features optimized for the clinical
laboratory. Click here for a brief
overview of FCS Express.
FCS Express boasts many features such as:
When choosing FCS Express, you do not simply get a great data analysis
tool, you also get the expertise of De Novo Software behind it. De Novo
Software has already set up several laboratories handling hundreds of
cases per day. A De Novo Software representative will come to your
laboratory and:
- Obtain an overview of your current systems
- Highlight how the different features of FCS Express can
help in your clinical facility. In some cases, analysis time was
decreased by a factor of two.
- Assist in designing and building new analysis templates in
FCS Express
- Train technicians and pathologists to use FCS Express
- Work with your IT staff to integrate FCS Express into your
overall computing environment. De Novo Software is highly experienced
in integrating with a diverse set of LIS and HIS systems and we can
accomodate any technological needs that you may have.
In addition, many other features such as security
and logging
are available, depending on your requirements. When you purchase FCS
Express, you are not simply getting a data analysis package, you are
purchasing a complete
data analysis solution!
How do I get more information?
Every organization is different and De Novo Software can provide a
custom solution for you. A price quotation will be based upon
many
factors. Some of these factors are:
- number of cases analyzed per week
- number of proposed installation sites
- number of people who will use FCS Express
- amount of help desired to design and build new protocols
- exact feature set required
- amount of integration with existing computing systems
Please contact us to
speak with a representative and obtain a custom quotation.
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