Does the assessment include production changes?
No. See the scope boundary above for the assessment and any later production work.
Existing system
Stabilize the LIMS the lab still depends on.
CTM begins with an authorized, read-only current-state assessment and a ranked plan rather than an unplanned production change.
Stabilize, upgrade, or replace?
The right path depends on evidence. A system may need clearer ownership, verified backups, dependency documentation, a narrow repair, an upgrade plan, or a migration assessment. CTM separates immediate operational risk from longer-term platform preference so that urgency does not become permission to guess.
What the assessment produces
- An inventory of legitimate owners, access paths, hosting, storage, and dependencies visible to the review.
- A map of critical workflows, reports, labels, exports, and integrations that must not be disrupted.
- Open questions around backup, restore, monitoring, vendor support, and recoverability.
- A ranked set of stabilization, repair, upgrade, migration, and support options with prerequisites.
Scope boundary
The initial assessment is authorized and read-only. It does not authorize restarts, upgrades, restore tests, database edits, credential changes, or workflow modifications. Later production work requires a separate scope, named authority, backup and rollback evidence, acceptance checks, and a maintenance decision. This is not emergency incident response; uncertain access or authority must be resolved before work begins.
Practical fit
This service can fit an inherited or aging laboratory system with unclear ownership, support, recoverability, or change risk. If the lab has not yet decided whether to preserve or leave the current platform, begin with the LIMS stabilize, upgrade, or replace assessment.
Questions labs ask
Does CTM promise that an old system can be repaired?
No. The assessment gathers evidence and ranks options; feasibility depends on the actual system, dependencies, and available authority.
Should a lab test a restore before the review?
Not solely for this review. Locate existing evidence and procedures, but do not run an unapproved restore against production.
What records are useful for discovery?
Architecture notes, owner and vendor contacts, backup documentation, dependency lists, incident history, and examples of critical outputs are useful when shared safely.
When this helps
The lab depends on an inherited LIMS but cannot confidently explain its support, dependencies, or change risk.
Deliverables and handoff
The inventory, critical-workflow map, recoverability questions, and ranked options above provide a decision-ready handoff.
What shapes cost and timing
Documentation gaps, dependency age, legitimate access availability, vendor support, and the number of workflows and interfaces at risk. Later remediation is scoped separately.
Fees and schedule are proposed after fit and scope are confirmed; they are not fixed by this page.
Next step
Use the stabilization checklist to locate existing documentation and describe the operational risk; do not perform new production tests for intake.
Use the existing systems-need link on this page. Do not include credentials, regulated records, production exports, or client-sensitive material in initial intake.