First integration took weeks. The hundredth took days. The five-hundredth takes hours. Every instrument connected, every format converted, every metadata field enriched compounds the infrastructure for every integration that follows.
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Production-grade products trusted by six of the top ten pharmaceutical companies. Data Preservation, Data Hub, Applications Hub, Technique Apps, and a growing Integration Catalog — the compound infrastructure that makes everything above possible.
The governed data store at the center of every ZONTAL deployment. Long-term storage with lifecycle management, electronic signatures, and provenance tracking at every transition.
Convert and normalize instrument data beyond vendor limits. Delivers structured content into Data Preservation with ETL-free access — powering every downstream principle.
Modular technique application framework. API support, custom visualizations, and regulated-environment deployment. Build once, deploy across the entire organization.
150+ vendors, 400+ instrument models, 8 core analytical techniques with 80+ variants. Searchable, growing continually as new integrations compound on existing ones.
AI-assisted integration delivery. Repeatable design, build, test, and deploy pipeline that turns new instrument connections from bespoke projects into predictable production releases.
Operational monitoring at scale. Health meters, ingest trending, failure root-cause analysis — real-time visibility across your entire instrument fleet.
Each application connects specific instrument families to the ZONTAL platform — purpose-built converters, metadata models, and visualizations for every analytical technique.
HPLC, UPLC™, GC, IC
LC-MS, GC-MS, ICP-MS
1D, 2D, multinuclear
Multi-parameter cell analysis
Absorbance, fluorescence, luminescence
Dynamic Vapor Sorption
DSC, TGA, DMA
X-Ray Diffraction
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The existing integration infrastructure enables new capabilities that were impossible before — AI-assisted converter generation, factory economics that improve with every build, and fleet-wide operational visibility.
AI-assisted converter generation and adapter authoring. Upload raw vendor output, AI drafts the conversion mapping, an engineer reviews, and the validated converter deploys. Every build makes the next one faster.
Operational monitoring at enterprise scale. Health meters, ingest trending, and failure root-cause analysis across your entire instrument fleet — from a single pane of glass.
Every integration built compounds on the existing infrastructure. Shared parsers, validated patterns, and reusable components mean each subsequent converter takes less effort than the last.
Full build from scratch — new converter, new metadata model, new visualization
Reuses core parser — only variant-specific fields and edge cases remain
Pattern library handles most mapping — engineer focuses on validation
AI-assisted draft, minor review — marginal effort approaches zero
Every instrument adapter includes a built-in simulation mode. The same adapter that runs against production hardware can replay OPC UA and SiLA 2 protocol behavior on an engineering workstation. The entire design → build → verify cycle runs without reserving lab time. Hardware commissioning becomes a focused final step — not a multi-week prerequisite.
How simulation mode works →See the full converter lifecycle: format submission, automated conversion, test validation, and governed approval.
Manages instrument connections across multiple LIMS, ELN, and dozens of vendor formats. Every new instrument model means a new bespoke integration project that takes weeks and requires vendor-specific knowledge nobody else on the team has.
Responsible for ensuring 40+ instruments across two manufacturing sites produce governed, audit-ready data. Format inconsistencies between vendor software versions create reconciliation work before every batch release.
Builds and maintains instrument-to-system data pipelines, but each new protocol or OPC UA endpoint requires custom scripting — no reusable components, no simulation mode, and hardware commissioning blocks the entire validation timeline.
Every instrument connected, every data format converted, every metadata field enriched flows into the scientific context graph. The more instruments you connect, the richer the lineage, the more powerful the intelligence above.
Every integration you build today trains the AI you deploy tomorrow. AI models require governed, validated scientific data — not raw instrument files. Integrate is where AI readiness begins.
Raw instrument data extracted, converted, and enriched with metadata beyond vendor limits
Context graph linking portfolio, materials, analytical, and infrastructure data
Integrate establishes the CONNECTED stage — the foundation that makes every subsequent stage possible. Your instruments are connected, your data flows, your integration infrastructure compounds.
Instruments integrated, data flowing, metadata enriched
Scientific context graph linking all data domains
Accelerated investigations and tech transfer
Portfolio intelligence, AI decisions, supervised automation
Integration industrialization is the foundation that makes context, intelligence, and AI-enabled decisions possible. Without governed data flow, the principles above produce noise, not insight.
Governed factories that compound with every build
The connected scientific context graph
Accelerated investigations and tech transfer
Agentic workflows & configurable automation
“I still cannot believe we’re still having printed copies of analytical methods to do method transfer across labs — or even partners and CROs.”
See how the compound integration model connects your instruments, converts your data, and builds infrastructure that gets faster with every integration.
