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Department solutionsMapleRecord for R&D
Accelerate innovation cycles, protect intellectual property, streamline regulatory submissions, and support research compliance with intelligent document management built for R&D teams.
- Lab records
- IP protection
- Regulatory submissions
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The challenge
R&D challenges
Research and development teams manage experimental data, protect intellectual property, maintain lab notebooks, coordinate regulatory submissions, and meet compliance obligations across multi-year research initiatives.
Slow research documentation
Organizing lab notebooks, experimental data, protocols, and findings across many projects and research teams takes time.
IP & data fragmentation
Patents, trade secrets, research data, and other intellectual property sit across departments, labs, and legacy systems without version control or proper security.
Regulatory & compliance risks
Maintaining FDA, EPA, or international regulatory compliance, managing clinical trial documentation, and preparing audit-ready submissions is difficult.
How it works
How a research request flows, end to end
A research activity or request is initiated
Runs in MR Requests
Research documentation requests, experiment approvals, and design changes are captured and tracked with defined timelines.
Relevant research records are accessed securely
Runs in MR Records
Research files, design documents, test results, and reports are retrieved from a centralized, governed repository with full version history.
Reviews and approvals are automated
Runs in MR Workflows
Workflow automation routes documents through reviewers, leads, compliance, and management teams based on predefined rules.
Research outcomes are finalized with traceability
Runs in MR Records
Records are secured, versioned, and retained with full audit trails to support validation, audits, and future reference.
Modules in this flow
Business impact
Potential impact for R&D teams
60%
Faster innovation cycles
Reduction in time from research to regulatory submission.
75%
Research efficiency gains
Decrease in time spent searching for experimental data.
100%
IP and audit traceability
Complete audit trails for patent and regulatory records.
85%
Regulatory submission speed
Improvement in assembling submission packages.
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Use cases
R&D use cases
Lab notebook records
Digitize and organize lab notebooks, experimental protocols, raw data, and observations as governed records, with timestamps and secure access controls.
Intellectual property management
Centralize patent applications, invention disclosures, trade secrets, and IP documentation with secure version control and confidentiality protection.
Regulatory submissions
Streamline FDA, EPA, EMA, and international regulatory submissions with organized documentation packages and compliance tracking.
Clinical trial documentation
Manage clinical study protocols, informed consent forms, case report forms, and trial master files with GCP compliance support.
Research collaboration
Share research data, protocols, and findings securely with internal teams, external partners, and academic collaborators.
Quality & validation records
Maintain validation protocols, test methods, quality control records, and technical documentation with complete audit trails.
Security & compliance
Built for research excellence
MapleRecord is designed for research teams managing sensitive experimental data, intellectual property, and regulatory submissions.
- IP protection with encryption and access controls
- Complete audit trails for regulatory inspections and patent defense
- Integration with LIMS, ELN, and research management systems
- Scales across complex and distributed R&D environments
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