Who We Are
CENSA is an international industry association and consulting firm, focused on driving the state of the art for electronic records systems and collaborative informatics technologies in software end user and developer organizations.
Our Mission
“To drive creation, convergence, effective usage, and continuous improvement of automation and informatics technologies and methodologies that facilitate scientific discovery, product development and intelligent collaboration among technical and business professionals.”
CENSA is driving innovation, convergence, and integration of technologies for building Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems (CENS) and more advanced systems for Intelligent Collaborative Informatics for R&D, Manufacturing, team project data management, business process management and integration, and electronic records. Through its market development programs, CENSA hosts major initiatives in informatics and software development that bring committed end users and suppliers together to catalyze expansion of new markets.
CENSA emphasizes existing commercial technologies as its starting point for projects. These technologies include collaborative informatics, intelligent semantic agents, content and workflow management and integration, Web-based systems, standards and tools, electronic records creation, records management and archiving ... and other hardware and software systems that must be integrated with them ... such as lab instruments, mobile handheld computers, chemoinformatics, bioinformatics, and medical informatics tools, LIMS, project data management, and other static and dynamic collaborative computing systems.
CENSA Programs
CENSA hosts market and product development programs in regulated industries where patents are fundamental to product research and development. Government regulatory agencies and research laboratories also participate in various research, development, or review capacities.
CENSA was formed in response to the need for better research, legal and regulatory information, components, systems and standards for integrated team project support, people-to-people collaboration, recordkeeping, knowledge management, and intelligent semantic software-to-software and software-to-people integration using collaborating software agents. Using the technologies mentioned above as starting points, the End User Members carefully specify what's missing to facilitate usage of these technologies for complex research, product development, and business areas. The End User Members then work with suppliers to deliver the missing pieces on an accelerated basis via product development contracts. As part of the development effort, End User Members supply resources for review, testing, and pilot projects of products that meet their defined needs.
Industries participating in CENSA include, but
are not limited to:
Chemical