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Details on system administration tasks such as setup and maintenance of databases and add-ons, user accounts, access rights, and migration and update procedures.
Update, upgrade, and migrate
Find details on how to update, upgrade or migrate your environment to work with the latest version of PLA 3.0.
Migrate
Migrate your 2.x assay data to PLA 3.0.
PLA 3.0 Migration and Archiving Toolkit
Use the PLA 3.0 Migration and Archiving Toolkit if you are running a PLA 2.0 or PLA 2.1 installation and want to migrate your databases to a PLA 3.0 environment.
Work with the Toolkit
Find details on the steps required to migrate your assay data from PLA versions 2.0 or PLA 2.1 to a PLA 3.0 environment.
Set up the archive
The first step when migrating assays with the PLA 3.0 Migration and Archiving Toolkit is to set up an archive of your PLA 2.x assays in your PLA 3.0 environment.
Set up the synchronization folder
The synchronization folder stores the data that is extracted from the PLA 2.x database. Set up this folder in your Windows file system. The folder can be located on a local drive or a network share.

Get started
Explore PLA 3.0, its key features and ongoing enhancements, and learn how to log in and register.
User interface
PLA 3.0 supports you in your daily work by providing a set of graphical and textual user interface elements. Learn about the different elements and how to use them efficiently.
Key concepts
Details on documents and templates, the data editors and the Content editor of PLA 3.0. Learn about the position factors and data aggregation features.
Data analysis
Data analysis add-ons offer a wide range of capabilities, ranging from analytical methods over comprehensive analysis to statistical process control. PLA 3.0 also provides a set of add-ons that support and supplement data analysis add-ons.
Data import
Use data acquisition and data import add-ons to import external response values and observation data into PLA 3.0 for further processing and evaluation.
Installation
Details on the deployment, installation, initial and advanced setup of PLA 3.0.
Licensing
Details on the licensing solution of PLA 3.0, the available licensing options, and the activation and management of licenses.
Administration
Details on system administration tasks such as setup and maintenance of databases and add-ons, user accounts, access rights, and migration and update procedures.
- Databases
  Current regulations, such as 21 CFR 11.10 in the pharmaceutical industry, require you to ensure that only authorized individuals can access your systems, perform operations, and sign records. The database-driven approach of PLA 3.0 enables you to take major steps toward meeting these requirements.
- Extensibility with add-ons
  PLA 3.0 consists of a framework and add-ons. The PLA 3.0 framework handles data as electronic documents. It provides the features you need to achieve regulatory compliance such as access control, data integrity, security, validation, and traceability.
- Rights and permissions
  PLA 3.0 provides the features you need to control access to your data in a sophisticated and compliant manner. It combines role-based user rights with resource-based permissions, which enables you to exercise fine-grained control over who can perform particular tasks in a given context and which tasks are allowed with particular data.
- Update, upgrade, and migrate
  Find details on how to update, upgrade or migrate your environment to work with the latest version of PLA 3.0.
  - Update
    Update your environment to PLA 3.0.7 to benefit from the latest innovations and improvements.
  - Upgrade
    Upgrade from PLA 2.1 or PLA 2.0 to the latest PLA 3.0 version and migrate your assay data.
  - Migrate
    Migrate your 2.x assay data to PLA 3.0.
    - PLA 3.0 Migration and Archiving Toolkit
      Use the PLA 3.0 Migration and Archiving Toolkit if you are running a PLA 2.0 or PLA 2.1 installation and want to migrate your databases to a PLA 3.0 environment.
      - Concepts
        The PLA 3.0 Migration and Archiving Toolkit utilizes a set of concepts that support you in transferring your data from a PLA 2.x source environment to a PLA 3.0 target environment.
      - Add-ons
        The PLA 3.0 Migration and Archiving Toolkit consists of several add-ons that cover different aspects of the archiving and migration process.
      - Document types
        The add-ons of the PLA 3.0 Migration and Archiving Toolkit provide a set of document types to archive and synchronize your assay data.
      - Work with the Toolkit
        Find details on the steps required to migrate your assay data from PLA versions 2.0 or PLA 2.1 to a PLA 3.0 environment.
        Set up the archive
        The first step when migrating assays with the PLA 3.0 Migration and Archiving Toolkit is to set up an archive of your PLA 2.x assays in your PLA 3.0 environment.
        Set up the synchronization folder
        The synchronization folder stores the data that is extracted from the PLA 2.x database. Set up this folder in your Windows file system. The folder can be located on a local drive or a network share.
        Start the PLA 2.x Archiving Assistant
        Start the PLA 2.x Archiving Assistant from your Windows Explorer.
        Extract assays from PLA 2.x
        Extract your assays from the PLA 2.x source database and store them in the synchronization folder.
        Import assays into PLA 3.0
        Import the extracted assays from the synchronization folder into your PLA 3.0 target database.
        Resynchronize an archive
        Resynchronize an existing PLA 3.0 archive with the PLA 2.x source database.
        Migrate your assay data
        Set up the migration logic to convert your PLA 2.x assays into PLA 3.0 Quantitative response assays. You can convert a single document or all documents within a project.
        Compare results
        Set up the comparison logic to compare the calculation results of the migrated PLA 3.0 Quantitative response assays with the results in the PLA 2.x Assay archive documents.
      - Installation
        Find details on the installation of the PLA 3.0 Migration and Archiving Toolkit.
      - Reference information
        Find reference information on the document types of the PLA 3.0 Migration and Archiving Toolkit add-on.
Regulatory compliance
PLA 3.0 supports you in achieving compliance with regulations such as ISPE GAMP^® 5 and 21 CFR Part 11. It also provides options to validate PLA 3.0 in your environment.
PDF downloads
Download PDF guides of current and previous framework and add-on versions.
Sample lab
Meet the team at Stegmann Labs, where PLA 3.0 plays an essential role in every step of bioassay management.
Glossary
Find definitions of terms.

Set up the synchronization folder

The synchronization folder stores the data that is extracted from the PLA 2.x database. Set up this folder in your Windows file system. The folder can be located on a local drive or a network share.

The synchronization folder stores all exported assays along with all report types, PSF files, and the audit trail export. Expect it to require twice the size of your original database. Once the archiving process from PLA 2.x to PLA 3.0 has been completed and synchronization is no longer required, you can delete the synchronization folder and all its subfolders.

Important: Initially, the folder has to be empty. Its content is created and updated by the PLA 2.x Archiving Assistant. Do not move the folder after the initial setup, as it is referenced in both the PLA 2.x and the PLA 3.0 environment. If you have to relocate the folder, remove the old folder and create a new one.

Procedure

To set up the synchronization folder:

Open a file explorer and navigate to the directory where you want to place the folder.
Create the synchronization folder and name it accordingly.
Example: Create a 'TransferFolder' on the C: drive.