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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.
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Find details on how to update, upgrade or migrate your environment to work with the latest version of PLA 3.0.

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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.
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.

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.

Releases prior to version 3.0.5

If you come from a release prior to 3.0.5, you will recognize that the license management and package management features are no longer used. They have been replaced with information packages. The following figure gives an overview of the capabilities of information packages:

License and package management replaced by information packages — Figure 1. License and package management replaced by information packages


License management	Package management
In releases prior to PLA 3.0.5, you added license keys (activation and feature keys) in the License management dialog. Your license keys are now added automatically. This dialog is no longer available.	In releases prior to PLA 3.0.5, you activated your document packages in the Package management dialog. PLA 3.0 now distributes features employing add-ons and you use the Add-on management to activate the add-ons you want to use. The Package management dialog is no longer available.