STARLIMS Corporation (Starlims) is a subsidiary of

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that provides web-based

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History

The company was founded by Itschak Friedman and Dinu Toiba in Israel in 1986, and developed and sold LIMS software. The company was renamed to Starlims. By 2005, the company's software was installed at the US

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and in systems of state health authorities in 12 US states. The company held its IPO in the US in 2007. Friedman served as CEO until the company was acquired by Abbott Laboratories in 2009 for $123 million; at that time the company had 160 employees and most of its operations and sales were in the US, the UK, and

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. By the time of the sale, Starlims was offered as a

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. Abbott intended to fold Starlims' products offerings into its other

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businesses in an effort to improve its clinical diagnostics business. In 2014, Abbott changed the subsidiary's name from Starlims to Abbott Informatics. In July 2021 Abbott sold Starlims to

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Tableau Software
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