Profile: Lab-Ally specializes in offering Collaborative Electronic Research Framework™ (CERF) electronic lab notebook for biology and multidisciplinary life sciences. The CERF is a unique electronic lab notebook (ELN) solution designed specifically for scientists and R&D organizations. Our CERF-Notebook™ provides a simple yet powerful interface for recording the research, and accessing shared resources. Projects, documents, data, and notebooks are managed centrally on the secure CERF server, but can be created & utilized at any place where the user has an internet connection. It lets users organize their thoughts, ideas, and data into the real research story much as a paper notebook does, but with the benefits of sharing, searching, digital signatures & templates. CERF is an extensible & scalable solution that meets needs & improves research performance in many organizations such as pharmaceutical companies & departments, government labs, biotechnology & service companies, academic departments and laboratories. Our cross-platform CERF product is the turnkey solution for the university lab, department, or core facility. It provides record-keeping as well as shared information management and project organization in an adaptable, low-maintenance system designed for diverse users & workgroups. It offers scientists an organized user-centric Labtop™ environment to do their daily work, which may include creating, viewing, analyzing, and annotating research records. It offers records managers sign records in printable and human-readable, long-term storage formats, that capture the data & document the complete evidence trail. It protects novel intellectual property (IP) that is readily configured for regulatory policies and can help managers identify IP & business opportunities faster. It enables organizations to create and follow secure business policies for sharing research information & reports.