Empower Cloud
First cloud-deployable, compliance-ready enterprise CDS
In today’s global marketplace, many companies are challenged with managing their global networks and suppliers, while ensuring regulatory compliance and data security. Running Empower Cloud provides global enterprises the speed and agility they need to bring all their locations online, so they can focus solely on science and not the infrastructure.
Empower Cloud leverages the internet to secure infrastructure technology, reducing the barriers of enterprise networks while capturing and expanding new revenue and driving operational efficiency. With Empower Cloud, you can differentiate from your competitors and expand your businesses to meet future opportunities more easily.
For business partner relationships, Empower Cloud utilizes a single Chromatography Data System (CDS) platform across Contract Research Organizations (CROs), Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs), and others – improving consistency, quality, and compliance while realizing the benefit of collaborations and protecting intellectual property.
Overview
- Leverage Waters-tested Empower Amazon Web Services (AWS) templates developed under the Waters Quality Management System
- Reduce variability and risk with repeatable deployments and upgrades utilizing AWS management tools across global geographies
- Simplify deployments by utilizing the AWS Marketplace in your AWS environments
- Provide better user experience and consistency for scientific and business owners across geographies, making science accessible to everyone
- Eliminate hardware and third-party operating system variability and capital expense
- Retain ownership of intellectual property (IP), quality, and content
- Increase efficiency while improving good practice (GxP) compliance and reducing the risk of regulatory friction
- Provide the highest level of flexibility and management control over IT resources
- Eliminate data centers and capital costs associated with operation, physical sites, computer hardware and storage, environmental conditionals, and electricity
- Secure the infrastructure with an “always on” solution with ongoing audit and assurance programs with industry certifications
Recommended Use: For managing global networks and suppliers while ensuring regulatory compliance and data security.
What is Empower Cloud and how does it work?
Waters Empower Cloud efficiently combines the world's market-leading CDS, Empower, with Amazon Web Services, the world’s most secure cloud services platform. This combination offers users trailblazing computing power, database storage, content delivery, and other versatile functionalities to help them scale and adjust to business requirements. Empower Cloud for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) leverages the internet to procure technology, drive operational efficiency, and provides a low-cost solution for scaling IT capacity by replacing up-front capital costs with low variable costs to replace on premise installations.
Simple to deploy
Empower Cloud is deployed from the AWS Marketplace onto the users’ own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) within their organization's AWS account. To simplify the installation of Empower Software server components, Waters has commercialized an AWS Marketplace submission that provisions an Empower Database Server and an Empower File Data Server onto two separate Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. Provisioned manually, each AWS Workspace has an Empower Software client providing dedicated computing resources giving a desktop-like user connection. LAC/e acquisition stations remain on-premises and physically attached to the instrumentation. Connectivity to on-premises infrastructure is achieved by provisioning a secured, high-speed circuit (AWS Direct Connect) from the user’s location into their organization's VPC.
Benefit from disaster recovery and business continuity
The AWS cloud provides users the agility they require to quickly change and optimize resources during a disaster recovery event. Empower Software back-end components (Database and File Share) are backed up like traditional on-premises deployments while the output of these backups is stored in an S3 storage repository for online storage as well as in Glacier as a long-term storage option. Additionally, snapshots of the storage volumes (EBS) attached to the Empower Instances (EC2) can be imaged according to a customer defined interval and also stored in an S3 storage repository. In the event a disaster occurs in a particular region, your organization will have the full ability to efficiently and effortlessly recover its Empower deployment into another AWS supported region.
Compliance in the cloud
With Empower Cloud, you can improve consistency, quality, compliance, and collaboration throughout your entire organization, reducing the risk of regulatory friction and improving GxP compliance with less manual processing, non-standard systems, and workarounds.
Hosted services, off site data centers, or on-premises data centers are simply different models of providing infrastructure. Cloud changes the landscape around infrastructure in many ways, reducing the risks associated with a traditional physical infrastructure. It helps provide simple standardization and automation of deployment with validated tools, eliminate manual processes and physical variation, and increase security and offers sophisticated monitoring tools not possible with physical infrastructure.
The key to successfully using cloud-based hosting services in a regulated environment is choosing the right cloud vendor and assessing their suitability to manage regulated data. Empower Cloud is designed to ensure that it functions correctly in a cloud infrastructure and reduce any unforeseen risks associated cloud deployment.
Minimize variation and risk with Waters Professional Services
The highly trained Waters Professional Services consultants provide the skills and expertise to make software implementation a success. Empower Cloud users have verified configurations that streamline and simplify deployment, providing faster installations while also eliminating infrastructure complexity since third-party applications or server virtualization technologies are not required.
Waters designs, evaluates and provides templates under Waters Quality Management Systems (QMS). Waters Professional Services assist customers to design, build and validate appropriate Amazon infrastructure. Automated deployment tools replicate Waters templates onto the cloud infrastructure.
