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Webinar «Building a Lab System: From Experimental Data to a Maintainable Platform»

It’s been a while since we last met with our academic community, so we’re especially happy to have a great reason to reconnect. This time, it’s a story we truly wanted to share.

On February 25 we hosted a webinar «Building a Lab System: From Experimental Data to a Maintainable Platform». It was inspiring and useful.

It was about how real research software is born - not as a student prototype, but as a system that laboratories rely on every day.

Research lab software rarely starts as “real” software. It grows around experiments, spreadsheets and scripts, built by students or researchers to solve immediate tasks. Over time, these tools turn into mission-critical systems, but maintaining and evolving them becomes increasingly difficult.

Our Academic Program Lead Viktoriia Klementeva hosted a live interview with our special guest - Pasquale Granato, Researcher at the ISAAC Institute, SUPSI (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland).

He shared how his photovoltaic lab built a single, maintainable system with Jmix - covering experimental data management, test planning and long-term time-series storage.

We had a conversation not only about technology, but about the journey: from scattered scripts and spreadsheets to a unified research platform.

This webinar especially useful for:

  • Professors & PIs running research labs.
  • Research staff and lab managers.
  • Students maintaining lab infrastructure.
  • R&D teams with too much code and not enough developers.

Watch the record of the webinar below

Jmix is an open-source platform for building enterprise applications in Java

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