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.

Add-ons such as the Biological Assays Package for the pharmaceutical industry or the Dose-Response Analysis Package, extend the functionality of the PLA 3.0 framework to include the analytical methods your users require and enable them to visualize, document, and report results. They also support a range of additional tasks from data acquisition to data aggregation and process monitoring using control charts.

If some of your users need to work with a new analytical method, for example, or need to acquire data from a new instrument, you first install the add-ons required for the task. Once you have installed new add-ons to extend the functionality of PLA 3.0 or to update existing functionality, you activate these add-ons for the particular PLA 3.0 databases whose users need the new functionality.

The users of a PLA 3.0 database can only work with the add-ons and add-on versions that are currently activated for this particular database. This approach guarantees that all users of the database work with the same add-ons and with the same add-on versions.