I was recently asked by a customer how to improve the requirements collection process. The answer lies in a systematic approach – and the ability to uncover unstated requirements.
Most new language features are not for everyday uses but cover very specific problems and situations. But some of the new features found in version 8 through 14 can be very helpful in our everyday work. In this post we'd like to share some of the new features that we found helpful in our work.
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Why do recipe changes in your production still take months? While the market demands agility, rigid EBR systems slow down innovation. Discover how to break free from the "golden cage"—from paper chaos through digital bottlenecks to true production agility in hours instead of quarters.
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How can agile methods be reconciled with the strict GMP requirements of the pharmaceutical industry? A practical report.
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Audit trail reviews are more than a compliance exercise – they are crucial for data integrity and compliance in pharmaceutical production. However, many companies face challenges in practice: confusing raw data, missing filters, and time-consuming manual reviews.
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anic and Quark join forces to redefine document automation in regulated industries. Discover how this partnership combines innovation and efficiency.
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Agile upscaling in the pharmaceutical industry: How anicomply revolutionizes digital documentation and supports GxP-compliant processes flexibly and efficiently.
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Computer System Validation (CSV) plays a central role in regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical technology. The focus is on patient safety, product quality, and data integrity, as well as operational efficiency and regulatory compliance.
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anic leverages AI tools to enhance software development and production processes, ensuring high quality and reliability while driving innovation and customer satisfaction.
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The pharmaceutical industry is facing major challenges: Strict regulations (validation, ER/ES, audit trail, data integrity, data consistency, etc.) must be met, while at the same time customers expect innovation, fast delivery times and a broad product range – all while maintaining consistently high, defined quality. What if the first step to solving your challenges could be found in this article?
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anicomply shows what modern workflow technology can look like when complexity is no longer part of the equation. This article takes you behind the scenes: why creating workflows suddenly feels effortless, how approvals become more flexible, how quality stays reliably secured, and why you’ll find documents faster than ever before. A compact glimpse that sparks curiosity about what could soon be possible in your daily work.
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Artificial Intelligence is currently transforming many industries, and it is also gaining importance in laboratories to make LIMS applications even more powerful.
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“Shift-Left” now! Why is this so important today? What will happen if you don’t focus on “Shift-Left”? What are the benefits and how can you achieve it?
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GitOps transforms infrastructure management by defining the entire desired state in a Git repository and letting the environment update itself automatically. This creates transparency, security, and a self‑healing system that corrects drift on its own. At the same time, GitOps introduces new challenges around configuration and sensitive data. Why the approach is still worth it—and how modern tools make it work in practice—unfolds in the full article.
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Software development has changed significantly over the years. In the past, the waterfall model was the predominant methodology, where development occurred in sequential phases: requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. Each phase had to be completed before the next could begin.
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The total turnover of the global chemical market in 2020 was around 3.5 trillion euros. This makes the chemical industry one of the largest industries in the world.
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The COVID-19 pandemic threw supply chains around the world out of rhythm and exposed sensitive weaknesses in the reliability of traditional procurement processes. The current conflict in Ukraine will also lead to long-lasting supply problems of key raw materials (among other tragic, far-reaching consequences).
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With the use of CI (continuous integration) and CD (continuous deployment), a software project is considered quite modern. However, when the project grows, you quickly realize that not all CI's are the same. How complex does troubleshooting become when the pipeline inexplicably fails? Can I simply generate the same increment locally? And how maintainable is my pipeline when it comes to integrating new components and extending the pipeline? This can quickly consume a lot of development time and slow down the actual product development.
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Software development in 2021 – what does that mean for anic GmbH? Looking at our customers, we see that the markets, the technologies used, and the business relationships are all becoming inexorably more dynamic. The keywords 'globalization' and 'digitalization' are at the heart of this develop...
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IDMP (Identification of Medicinal Products) is one of the big topics in the pharmaceutical industry at the moment. Manual maintenance and preparation of the data is often too expensive or is not manageable.
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The chemical industry was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and the simultaneous drop in oil prices. Some companies had to reduce their production to 40%-60% due to labor shortages and disruptions in raw material supply chains. Sales problems in other industries and travel restrictions also reduced demand for chemical products.
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anic has now rolled out version 4 of its successful ordering and management software for chemicals to our customer. A unique feature of our customised software is the ability to search for chemical structures within a supplier catalogue comprising more than two million structures and articles.
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Billions move, power games unfold – yet one crucial role remains empty. This article reveals why common sense is missing in major organizations and how a single position could prevent disastrous decisions.
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What happens when companies outsource their knowledge and lose the expertise that once set them apart? This article reveals why true expertise is becoming a key competitive advantage again – and how boutique consulting helps restore it.
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