AUSTIN, TX — September 19, 2025 — The term “platform” has become a buzzword in life sciences technology, but not all digital unified platforms are truly unified or equal. L7 Informatics today cut through the noise of the platform hype, clarifying the differences between unified platforms, point solutions, and integration tools, and outlining what buyers should expect from vendors in 2025 and beyond.
As highlighted in Gartner’s 2025 Market Guide for LIMS, digital unified platforms are increasingly recognized as essential for centralizing workflows, harmonizing data, and enabling AI-driven discovery at scale. Yet with nearly every vendor now marketing their system as a “platform,” fundamental differences in architecture, scalability, and data contextualization are often obscured.
One of the most overlooked challenges lies in the enterprise data model. Point solutions like LIMS, ELN, and MES each define entities and processes differently, creating silos by design. To connect them, organizations often build complex ETL pipelines to “translate” data across systems, effectively creating an enterprise data model outside the technology. This workaround is not only resource-intensive but also brittle, requiring constant maintenance as processes evolve.
According to Teodor Leahu, VP of Strategy & Development at L7 Informatics, this pattern is a red flag for buyers. “When every process change forces you to rebuild integrations, you’re not operating on a unified platform,” he explained. “You’re managing a patchwork of point solutions. True digital unified platforms are designed to evolve with the science, not make the science adapt to the system.”
The full article, Decoding the Platform Hype: A Modern Buyer’s Guide to Digital Life Sciences Platforms, is available on the L7 Informatics website: https://l7informatics.com/blog/decoding-the-platform-hype-a-modern-buyers-guide-to-digital-life-sciences-platforms/
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Informatics is redefining digital transformation in life sciences with L7|ESP,
the Enterprise Science Platform built to unify data, orchestrate and automate
workflows, and enable AI operations across R&D, CMC, manufacturing, QC,
diagnostics, and clinical environments. L7|ESP connects the dots between
disparate instruments, software, and teams by providing a single digital
scientific platform with flexible data modeling, extensive API integrations to
fit seamlessly into any ecosystem, and a full suite of built-in applications,
including LIMS, ELN, MES, Inventory, and Scheduling.
Jessica Tobey
L7 Informatics
jessica.tobey@l7informatics.com
