Shortly thereafter in 2012 with SIMPATIQCO , there was also progress made for autouploading files into such QC programs, making longitudinal reports and dashboards possible in an automatic way, a concept that is still being used in more recent QC software (Table ). In general, these early metrics focused solely on the system performance using a blend of ID-free and ID-based metrics, but depending on the QC material used, additional metrics can be derived.