The Weaver Group

The Weaver Group is a private data management software company headquartered in Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...

. The company employs approximately 10 people, with customer and development facilities located in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne is a city in the US state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. The population was 253,691 at the 2010 Census making it the 74th largest city in the United States and the second largest in Indiana...

and Philippi, West Virginia

Philippi, West Virginia

Philippi is a city in — and the county seat of — Barbour County, West Virginia, USA. The population was 2,870 at the 2000 census. In 1861, the city was the site of the Battle of Philippi, known as "The Philippi Races"...

.

The Weaver Group markets to laboratories, food processors, environmental testing companies, and the chemical and pharmaceutical industries: laboratory information management system

Laboratory Information Management System

Sometimes known as a laboratory information system or laboratory management system , a laboratory information management system is a software-based laboratory and information management system that offers a set of key features that support a modern laboratory's operations...

, inventory management, and laboratory informatics

Laboratory informatics

Laboratory Informatics is the specialized application of information technology aimed at optimizing laboratory operations. It encompasses electronic lab notebooks, sample management, data acquisition, data processing, reporting and scientific data management...

History

The business was started by Michael (Mike) Weaver as Weaver Enterprises in a spare room of his home in Roanoke, Indiana

Roanoke, Indiana

Roanoke is a town in Jackson Township, Huntington County, Indiana, United States. The population was 1,722 at the 2010 census. Roanoke is governed by a town council. Town offices include the clerk treasurer, utilities department, police department, and volunteer fire department. The town has a...

, in 2008.

Weaver graduated from Eastern Mennonite University

Eastern Mennonite University

Eastern Mennonite University is a private liberal arts university in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, affiliated with one of the historic peace churches, the Mennonite Church USA. Its main campus is on the edge of the small city of Harrisonburg, Virginia, about three miles from state-owned...

in 1996 with a B.A. degree in Biology and Chemistry. While attaining his B.A. degree, he served as a laboratory research assistant at Penn State Medical School in the area of Cardiology, specifically sympathetic nerve activity to quantitatively mark changes between male vs. female, sleep apnea, exercise and weightlessness categories. Upon graduation, Weaver was recruited by a major pharmaceutical which started a career with various stints as a lab chemist, lab info system manager, quality & regulatory lead, and entrepreneur. Weaver formed Weaver Enterprises in 2008. The fledgling firm’s first office was a home office located in Roanoke, Indiana

Roanoke, Indiana

.

During the first year, Weaver Enterprise updated the corporate identity and incorporated as The Weaver Group, Inc. It provided mainly consulting services, animation & mobile technology to consumers and clients. Companies would contract The Weaver Group and his one employee to provide expert information system configuration, selection and workflow advice for various purposes. The company also created unique, animated content for children under the alias Wow Munchkin Wow Munchkin which lead to early research into wide area network data transmission and mobile technology. Early products included mobile applications such as, a video podcast viewer, a toddler learning movie and mobile content readers for iPhone and Android. From its inception the company had been self-financed but with the enormous potential seen in the data management world for similarly driven mobile content, Weaver sought outside capital in 2010 to begin full blown research into this area. The Weaver Group was the world's first cross platform data management software as a service SaaS

Saas

SAAS is an abbreviation for* Social Accountability Accreditation Services* Software as a service * Student Awards Agency for Scotland* Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences* South Australian Ambulance Service...

for the regulated industry.

The company’s first investment pitch was well received and approved before the presentation had completed. Mike Albertson, made an initial investment in The Weaver Group in late 2010 and the company moved full force into product development. The company released its first product for Test data management on March 1, 2011. Its unique cross platform design makes it the first PC, Mac, Android, iOS, and BlackBerry friendly software for the regulated environment.

In 2010, The Weaver Group appointed several senior staff officers and headquarters were moved to Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica, California

. In April 2011 Mike Weaver wrote an article for Contract Pharma Magazine titled "The Laboratory Data Revolution".

External links

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.

The Weaver Group

History

See also

External links