Likelihood to Recommend RSA Archer is fantastic at cataloguing, personalizing assessments, raw reporting, and capacity to add custom fields. It is a little clunky around adding contextual information to notifications, peeking into data before attempting to load pages, quick navigation or determining linked (or sub-linked) relationships. These are all concerns that can either be worked around with an appropriate data scheme or with careful administration of the sub-routines.
Read full review One example of where the quality management system, document module excels for us is the loading, distributing, and acknowledging documentation. We are easily able to load SOPs, guides, and policies for staff to read and then sign to state that they are aware of the contents of the documentation. This is crucial for our laboratory as we need to know if staff are aware of the Health and Safety practices and policies within the laboratory.
Read full review Pros Integration capabilities to multiple enterprise systems Control standards and Procedures to address multiple regulatory/authoritative sources, standards and frameworks enabling test once satisfy many requiremnts Rapid application development and User friendly tool with configuration capability to customize easily without user requiring programming or coding skills Read full review Support - the product has great phone and email-based support from a team of knowledgeable people Customisablity - the product lets you build custom workflows, has a high level of granularity on permissions, etc. Robust and reliable software- the software is dependable once set up Read full review Cons They release time to time updates, which causes issues in the GUI. However, one has to be careful while installing the update. There is no open and free academy to learn more about the tool. One cannot stay to a particular product version, they have to move to the next version to keep up with the changes. Read full review The training module is basic. If your training program is more complicated than simple onboarding training, then the Q-Pulse training module will be a bit of a challenge. It's not impossible to use, but there are better programs out there. I understand though, that this is an area that is being improved on soon. David Moore Manager, Maintenance Training and Electronic Business Systems
Read full review Likelihood to Renew Q-Pulse QMS is totally integrated into our organization now. It does the job nicely and to change it would cause unnecessary disruption to our operation.
David Moore Manager, Maintenance Training and Electronic Business Systems
Read full review Usability Good tool to get the information communicated, approval workflow, and easy to add new findings/questionnaires. Seems to be compatible with different browsers and little downtime. Only request for improvement is to add an export feature with fewer clicks. Maybe batch export.
Read full review The Q-Pulse QMS client works great in our organization within the head office as the server is hosted on-premises. Remote locations connect in through Citrix, which reduces the usability. However, Q-Pulse QMS is currently transitioning to a web-based model, which will remove this problem. Once the system is fully web based, then this will no longer be an issue.
David Moore Manager, Maintenance Training and Electronic Business Systems
Read full review Support Rating Our RSA Archer team is dedicated to finding solutions for our organization. They haven't mentioned any issues with receiving support with deployment or bug fixes, and generally the platform is very dependable. They are always very excited about delivering a version upgrade and presenting any new features that provide more dashboards or chart types.
Read full review The support team for Q-Pulse QMS is fantastic. Ideagen has invested a lot in this area, opening offices all around the world. Q-Pulse QMS product managers are also very responsive to requests and improvement suggestions. Ideagen also hosts annual conferences, which bring their customers together where ideas can be shared and we can meet the people developing the program.
David Moore Manager, Maintenance Training and Electronic Business Systems
Read full review Alternatives Considered It has been roughly 5 years since I have seen Securevue, so a lot can change, but to me it felt like several products were purchased and an attempt was made to piece them all together into a single solution (and I believe that may have been true). It also required agents on endpoints which did not fit the model I believed customers were looking for.
MetricStream appeared to be difficult to install as it took their own engineers some time to get it installed in my lab environment. I did not think their web interface was as intuitive as RSA Archer. Customization to the platform was possible to some degree, but required a lot more work and technical skills than required by Archer. I did like the landing page for
MetricStream which called out the important action items for the current user, but Archer v6.X now has this feature.
Read full review A lot of users find it difficult in using software such as MTeams and MS
SharePoint when compared to using Ideagen Quality Management (Q-Pulse). Ideagen Quality Management (Q-Pulse) allows you to keep a better audit trail in my opinion. It allows me to know who has read and acknowledged the document, who has approved the document and who has even distributed it.
Read full review Return on Investment We were able to achieve approx 63% gain in operational efficiency. Reduce the number of findings and exceptions during an Internal audit to almost zero. Get compliance to all client contracts tracked through the tool thus increasing the confidence of clients in our systems and processes. Read full review Hard to quantify in numbers., but Q-Pulse QMS has provided a large increase in regulatory compliance. Regulatory and customer audits routinely return positive results and compliments to Q-Pulse QMS. David Moore Manager, Maintenance Training and Electronic Business Systems
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