LIMS are used in industrial settings to enable digital management of data and support digital workflows in sample-centric organized laboratories. ELNs are predominantly used, in industry and in academia, to document experimental procedures and thus enable transition from manual documentation to electronic documentation. LIMS and ELN can be obtained as commercial as well as Open Source solutions to achieve a high level of digitalisation in experimental laboratories with little effort for the scientists; with the latter option often being the feasible, cost-effective solution for academic laboratories to enable digitisation within the research environment. Wellknown commercial systems for LIMS and ELN are offered, for example, by ThermoFisher 1 , Benchling 2 , Agilent 3 , Labfolder 4 , eLabJournal (partially commercial) , and SciNote (partially commercial) . Examples of free and Open Source ELNs, which partly also contain LIMS functionality, are eLabFTW , Chemotion, 8,9 and openBIS .