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The present invention relates to systems for providing enhanced communications for the managing of projects, particularly to project communications involving multiple resource providers. The invention provides for a network accessed business system and database. The system permits parallel public, l

The present invention relates to systems for providing enhanced communications for the managing of projects, particularly to project communications involving multiple resource providers. The invention provides for a network accessed business system and database. The system permits parallel public, limited, and proprietary access to database information for the purpose of establishing and managing projects requiring multiple, and potentially competitive, resource providers. The invention specifically provides for the exchange of information required between project owners, project managers, and competitive, bidding resource providers necessary to assemble and manage both materiel and an effective project team.

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The present invention relates to systems for providing enhanced communications for the managing of projects, particularly to project communications involving multiple resource providers. The invention provides for a network accessed business system and database. The system permits parallel public, l

The present invention relates to systems for providing enhanced communications for the managing of projects, particularly to project communications involving multiple resource providers. The invention provides for a network accessed business system and database. The system permits parallel public, limited, and proprietary access to database information for the purpose of establishing and managing projects requiring multiple, and potentially competitive, resource providers. The invention specifically provides for the exchange of information required between project owners, project managers, and competitive, bidding resource providers necessary to assemble and manage both materiel and an effective project team. of proper calibration causes said taken data to be identified as improper data in both said batch record database and said final report. 3. The method of claim 1 wherein said retrieving said one or more of said measured and said observed data into said record database and said information into said program is by wireless communication. 4. A method of electronically managing measured, calculated and observed data of the type requested by pre-existing procedures and obtained through analytical instrumentation or by observation, said method comprising the steps of: providing a data manipulating device which contains an information management program; loading a single set of instructions containing said pre-existing procedures into said data manipulating device, wherein said data manipulating device creates a set of procedural instructions; providing said procedural instructions to said program, for use thereby in the generation of a batch record database and a report format; providing said procedural instructions to one or both of said analytical instrumentation and an observer, for use thereby in the taking of one or both of said measured and observed data and information from which said calculated data is generated; retrieving any taken of said measured and said observed data into said batch record database by wireless communication; retrieving any taken of said information into said program for generation thereof into said calculated data by wireless communication and then retrieving said calculated data into said batch record database; combining said one or more of said measured, calculated and observed data from said batch record database with said report format by said program, to produce a final report therefrom wherein said data and information are only recorded within said batch record and said final report; and confirming the calibration status of said analytical instrumentation by said program wherein said taking of said data without said confirmation of proper calibration causes said taken data to be identified as improper data in both said batch record database and said final report. 5. In a system for managing and reporting laboratory data of the type produced at one or more remote data-taking stations in accordance with a set of pre-existing procedures and formatted into a report, and wherein said procedures require the preservation of any data recorded at said remote data-taking stations, the improvement wherein; said data, once produced, is transmitted instantaneously from each of said one or more remote data-taking stations to a main data-storing and data-manipulating station without being recorded at said one or more remote data-taking stations, to thereby avoid said preservation requirement at said remote data-taking stations; said main data-storing and data-manipulating device is a computer having a program for combining said pre-existing procedures with said laboratory data and into a final report, said final report describing both said procedures and said laboratory data; said program further produces test instructions from said pre-existing procedures and said remote data-taking stations receive said instructions and produce said laboratory data in accordance therewith; said instructions further include the requirement for the taking of meta-data at the remote data-taking stations and said meta-data is transmitted to said computer and said final report further describes said meta-data; said meta-data further includes remote data-taking station calibration data and said instructions include the requirement for the confirmation of proper calibration of said remote data-taking stations and wherein said taking of said data without said confirmation of proper calibration is denied by said program; and said meta-data further includes remote data-taking station calibration data and said instructions further include the requirement for the confirmation of proper calibration of said remote da ta-taking stations wherein said taking of said data without said confirmation of proper calibration causes said taken data to be identified as improper data by said program. 6. In a system for managing and reporting laboratory data of the type produced at one or more remote data-taking stations in accordance with a set of pre-existing procedures and formatted into a report, and wherein said procedures require the preservation of any data recorded at said remote data-taking stations, the improvements wherein; said data, once produced, is transmitted instantaneously from each of said one or more remote data-taking stations to a main data-storing and data-manipulating station without being recorded at said one or more remote data-taking stations, to thereby avoid said preservation requirement at said remote data-taking stations; said data is transferred instantaneously from said each of said one or more remote data-taking stations to said main data-storing and data-manipulating station by wireless communication; said main data-storing and data-manipulating device is a computer having a program for combining said pre-existing procedures with said laboratory data and into a final report, said final report describing both said procedures and said laboratory data; said program produces test instructions from said pre-existing procedures and said remote data-taking stations receive said instructions and produce said laboratory data in accordance therewith; said instructions include the requirement for the taking of meta-data at the remote data-taking stations and said meta-data is transmitted to said computer and said final report further describes said meta-data; and said meta-data further includes remote data-taking station calibration data and said instructions further include the requirement for the confirmation of proper calibration of said remote data-taking stations wherein said taking of said data without said confirmation of proper calibration causes said taken data to be identified as improper data by said program. 7. A method of ensuring reliability in auditable data taken from analytical instruments during evaluation of medical, pharmaceutical and biological products and stored in a data-recording system wherein each instrument's calibration status is electronically confirmed by said system before said data taken therefrom is accepted by said system. 8. The method of claim 7 wherein all of said auditable data taken at said analytical instruments is transferred instantaneously and electronically to a central data-recording apparatus, and wherein said auditable data is recorded only in said central data-recording apparatus. 9. A method of electronically managing measured, calculated and observed data of the type requested by pre-existing procedures and obtained through analytical instrumentation or by observation, said method comprising the steps of: providing a data manipulating device which contains an information management program; loading a single set of instructions containing said pre-existing procedures into said data manipulating device, wherein said data manipulating device creates a set of procedural instructions; providing said procedural instructions to said program, for use thereby in the generation of a record database of a given lot of products and a report format; providing said procedural instructions to one or both of said analytical instrumentation and an observer, for use thereby in the taking of one or both of said measured and observed data and information from which said calculated data is generated confirming the calibration status of said analytical instrumentation by said program, and wherein said taking of said data without said confirmation of proper calibration is denied; retrieving any taken of said measured and observed data into said record database; confirming the eligibility of any individual attempting to modify any said previously retrieved data in said record database and wherein with eligibility confirmation modified data is retrieved and said previously retrieved data is returned, and without eligibility confirmation said modified data is retained; retrieving any taken of said information into said program for generation thereof into said calculated data and then retrieving said calculated data into said record database; combining said one or more of said measured, calculated and observed data from said record database with said report format by said program, to produce a final report therefrom; and wherein said data and information are only recorded within said record and said final report. y application Ser. 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