# BIOVIA Notebook Reviews **Vendor:** Dassault Systemes **Category:** [Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/electronic-lab-notebook-eln) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About BIOVIA Notebook BIOVIA Notebook is an easy-to-use, easy-to-deploy electronic lab notebook solution for IP protection and collaboration on-premises or cloud. ## BIOVIA Notebook Reviews ### 1. Excellent Flexibility That Adapts to Our Needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aafreen K. | Research Scholar, Biotechnology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2026 **What do you like best about BIOVIA Notebook?** What I like most about this software is its flexibility about search **What do you dislike about BIOVIA Notebook?** Required prior knowledge and basic understanding of this software. Freshers can't use efficiently **What problems is BIOVIA Notebook solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can easily record and store my experimental data. ### 2. CISPro integration with notebook **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveen K. | BIOVIA Technical lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2023 **What do you like best about BIOVIA Notebook?** BIOVIA notebook is very much helpful to keeping digital record of experiment and with the samples used in that. The integration with CISPro using pipeline pilot allows to connect them even to attain more optimization and automation. **What do you dislike about BIOVIA Notebook?** BIOVIA notebook is not so good for big molecules. **What problems is BIOVIA Notebook solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very helpful in recording the samples used in the lab and the experiment with it. It also helps in connecting IBL pipelines. ### 3. BIOVIA is a very innovative tech suite for Digitisation of Medical tech **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jilu Easow R. | Technical Lead - PLM, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2022 **What do you like best about BIOVIA Notebook?** Very easy learning curve, ability to run from premise and cloud and simple user interface **What do you dislike about BIOVIA Notebook?** Integeration with other softwares can improve. export of data should be easier **What problems is BIOVIA Notebook solving and how is that benefiting you?** documenting our processes, best practices and IP ### 4. Biovia Electronic Lab notebook:Safe Repository **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deeksha S. | RPA Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2022 **What do you like best about BIOVIA Notebook?** Biovia ELN stands for Electronic Lab notebook and it is one of the safest repositories for Lab data. It brings Safe, systematical and effecient Data storage. The best thing about it that it is cloud based so researchers can seamlessly collaborate in real time which improves effeciency. Being an admin of ELN, it is easy to work on and safest option for researchers to mabage their lab work **What do you dislike about BIOVIA Notebook?** When i started using ELN, it was a desktop application and that was one thing which i disliked the most but with time it was deployed on cloud and became a powerful and useful tool for lab work. **Recommendations to others considering BIOVIA Notebook:** It is a good tool for data repository. You can go ahead and start using this software **What problems is BIOVIA Notebook solving and how is that benefiting you?** As mentioned, it was a desktop application which used to be a issue when user had to install the Biovia ELN on their system. Data caching was a big probolem, because of that users were sometimes not able to open ELN on their system. ELN has evolved with time and being on cloud has removed this frequent issue. ### 5. This really helped to perform laboratories task in digital and paperless manner **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shailendra G. | Java Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2022 **What do you like best about BIOVIA Notebook?** This is quite user friendly to use and it really solves the main problem of documentation in our laborateries. **What do you dislike about BIOVIA Notebook?** As if now i found all set about ELN notebook software. **What problems is BIOVIA Notebook solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Data security because as here data is secured as per the roles. 2. High availability and scalability of data. 3. It is having project specific data and rich Excel feature that makes our data transformation and manipulation quite faster and efficiency has improved significantly ### 6. Biovia ELN is great tool to store, share, review and approve experimental data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2022 **What do you like best about BIOVIA Notebook?** Biovia helps in capturing the assay done, easy to review and approve. It had other features like integrating devices like balance to capture weight which is useful in GMP area **What do you dislike about BIOVIA Notebook?** Maintenance of the ELN is a challenging part as the integration with other devices might not work in critical times and gets hanged while using via Citrix gateway **What problems is BIOVIA Notebook solving and how is that benefiting you?** I support in assisting users starting from creating an user account, opening a notebook followed by experiment creation to sign and close. The best part in Biovia is archival of experiment and re opening for additional data to it ### 7. electronic lab notebook provide secure ELN **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** apostol a. | Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2022 **What do you like best about BIOVIA Notebook?** Secure ELNs are important we as provider of home the electronic lab notebook elabjournal Aaj challenged customer everyday show that we provide a secure ELN solution besides supporting essential security features such as enforcing password policies **What do you dislike about BIOVIA Notebook?** Biovia notebook storage space increase your free account storage you could use important face issue upload slow problem any solution for this no video support content and unclear **What problems is BIOVIA Notebook solving and how is that benefiting you?** Biovia notebook very easy to use this plan is witnessing the music unlimited nationality video content best provide useful add ons and integration fixable shortcuts for protocol generation collaborate option good for inventory management service ### 8. Biovia rev **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2022 **What do you like best about BIOVIA Notebook?** Easy workflow from the creation of the template, and then populating data into the various tabs/columns/rows. **What do you dislike about BIOVIA Notebook?** Very very slow. More than often the ELN gets stuck, and takes very long time to retun and sometimes it never returns. One has to kill the application before it can be relaunched. **Recommendations to others considering BIOVIA Notebook:** It's expensive. It is a good/easy to use environment. Yet it is very very slow. **What problems is BIOVIA Notebook solving and how is that benefiting you?** Contemporaneous/real-time recording of data. And data analysis. Recording time stamp data. ### 9. Good eLN with few handy shortcuts for experimental writing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Jaisingh D. | Associate Research Scientist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2022 **What do you like best about BIOVIA Notebook?** It has pre-written features which could help for fast eLN experimental writing. **What do you dislike about BIOVIA Notebook?** Little lag in user interface which makes it slow. **What problems is BIOVIA Notebook solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had been writing this previously for our daily experiments and the benefits were the easy conclusion segment which includes physical as well as chemical description of the compound. ### 10. Convenient and saves automatically **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2022 **What do you like best about BIOVIA Notebook?** Has automatic template; labeled tabs to keep track of your experiments without being disorganised **What do you dislike about BIOVIA Notebook?** sometimes lags and takes long time for file uploads **Recommendations to others considering BIOVIA Notebook:** - **What problems is BIOVIA Notebook solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to share and keep track of ongoing experiments with collaborators ### 11. Biovia ELN was very user friendly and made keeping track of lab work easy. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2022 **What do you like best about BIOVIA Notebook?** I enjoyed the copy feature which made it easy to create a new ELN for a similar project. This sped up the workflow by not requiring me to input the same information multiple times **What do you dislike about BIOVIA Notebook?** The excel formatting sometimes got changed when transferring from excel into the ELN **What problems is BIOVIA Notebook solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using the Biovia ELN made work much more streamlined as compared to using traditional paper notebooks ### 12. BIOVIA Notebook **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2022 **What do you like best about BIOVIA Notebook?** Architecher of the platform and different navigations **What do you dislike about BIOVIA Notebook?** Hanging or latency problem and the drawing part **What problems is BIOVIA Notebook solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is used for documentation and writing experiments performed in the laboratory. Real-time documentation and available to use for all users ## BIOVIA Notebook Discussions - [What is BIOVIA Notebook used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-biovia-notebook-used-for) - [View BIOVIA Notebook pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/biovia-notebook/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-09+15%3A33%3A32+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=49ac7f0e-cca1-44b8-9d83-1d52c5005327&secure%5Btoken%5D=0faebb5bccef0ae7b67a272c917e0a7f568fdce3d776ecb8c2713b7c8ae9f0e6&format=llm_user) ## BIOVIA Notebook Features **Process** - Data Storage - Inventory Management - Protocol Templates - Intellectual Protection and Compliance - Comprehensive Search Functionality - Data Access Authorization ## Top BIOVIA Notebook Alternatives - [Benchling](https://www.g2.com/products/benchling/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (62 reviews) - [LabWare LIMS](https://www.g2.com/products/labware-lims/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (102 reviews) - [SciNote](https://www.g2.com/products/scinote/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (303 reviews)