Idaho Technology: R.A.P.I.D. With , CSI

USA (SANEPR.com) July 25, 2008 -- Our goal is the elimination of disease.
There is plenty of work left to do.”
This is the lofty ambition of Idaho Technology
Inc. (ITI), a privately held
company that develops the world’s
fastest and highest-quality machines for
pathogen identification and DNA analysis.
Carl Wittwer, Ph.D., M.D., designed
a rapid thermal-cycling instrument for
performing DNA amplification reactions,
which was 10 times faster than available
technology. He gathered friends from
graduate school days to form ITI in
1990, a company that has been profitable
ever since.
Today ITI’s offerings include the
R.A.P.I.D.®, R.A.P.I.D. LT, and RAZOR®
Systems and the LightScanner®, HR-1™
and RapidCycler® Instruments along
with an expanding line of freeze-dried
reagents and DNA/RNA purification and
test kits. IT BioChem, a division of ITI,
offers a complete list of probes, primers
and melting dyes for the LightCycler®,
LightScanner, HR-1 and other real-time
PCR instruments. ITI devices are used
by the U.S. military, Department of
Defense and Department of Homeland
Security to detect or study diseasecausing
organisms.
Idaho Technology: R.A.P.I.D.
Improvements with CSI
CHALLENGE:
Exponential growth overpowered
existing systems; company needed
seamless integration between disparate
financial, CRM, HR, reporting
and time clock solutions
SOLUTION:
Sage MAS 500, Sage SalesLogix,
Sage Abra HRMS, Microsoft FRx and
Easy Track Time Clock™, with
integration from CSI
RESULTS:
Seamless solution can handle much
greater volume of orders, and
provides management with visibility
into every aspect of the enterprise
Timely Technology
Anthrax, ricin, avain flu, salmonella,
E.coli and other deadly headliners are
some of the pathogens addressed by ITI
technology. Given recent incidents, it
comes as no surprise that ITI grew
extremely rapidly, from 50 employees
just eight years ago to 200 today.
Manual data transfers from the timeclock
system to payroll and accounting
soon became unwieldy, and hampered
ITI’s ability to comply with government
contract requirements. Similarly, ITI’s
five external sales professionals needed
a better way to create quotes and
access information from the accounting
system.
Diverse Technologies and
Vendors
“We had been very happy with Sage
MAS 200 for years. So we decided to
upgrade to Sage MAS 500, and add
Sage SalesLogix as our customer
relations management tool. We also
selected Sage Abra HRMS to manage
our human resources department,
Microsoft® FRx® for reporting, and Easy
Track Time Clock® for our timekeeping
management system. This created a
rather unusual mix of technologies,”
explains Boyd Evans, Controller.
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