Dashpivot - By Sitemate vs ECM XD

-Great replacement to filling manual forms. Helps digitise the entire process and save loads of time - Can be easily customised to your needs - Very simple and effective user interface - Great team behind Dashpivot. Always available to solve your needs. - Can easily analyse information in the filled forms. Though the analytics can be further improved

ECM -XD is great when you are linking documents of different types and from different sources into a single centralized location. There is no limit to the amount of information that can be retained for a specific complaint, investigation, etc. so situations where documents obtained at different times and from different personnel need to be linked to a single file are ideal. ECM -XD is less ideal for situations in which individual file information is simple with low density, or requiring a high level of customization. The user interface is likely more intuitive for novice users through other software options

• Soooooooo easy to set up and use! So user friendly a monkey could do it.
• Customer support is phenomenal. Phone, email, online chat. Easy to follow instructional videos. No call centre in Thailand.
• I love that you can use pre-filled data. Type up lists once and NEVER have to hand type them again! Just click!
• Tagging! Being able to categorise photos to particular categories for enhanced search functions. Brilliant!
• Fully flexible customisation. All the templates we have created we have had full creative capabilities with. I haven't found anything yet that I wanted to do that couldn't be done. I was even able to add three pages of terms and conditions to a purchase order template.

• Great cloud integration of information. Saves a lot of space on network drives and eliminates need for local storage of critical documents.
• Very good comprehensive repository of information. Documents of different format and file extensions are allowed for upload and easy to access.
• Regulatory and auditory compliance. This platform facilitates documentation of customer feedback, and thus ensures GMP, ISO, and FDA compliance.

• To send the induction template to every sub contractor to fill out and send back to us before entering site. Once we have the basic information we then can do the induction and sign off after completing the induction. Each induction could generate a number and it could form a list of names to a number on a register.
• Site safety audit. If we could carry over a problem to create a list that has to get signed off ones done. That would be very handy.
• Every one of our files generated is to be able to be re detected back on our own business server.

• Customization could be made easier. Often times we instead have blank unused information fields for individual complaint files.
• Record display layout could be optimized. While very comprehensive, it could be difficult to find specific information.
• Mobile compatibility. I haven't seen any support for mobile compatibility. ECM -XD is typically only accessed on laptop and desktop machines in our organization.

I could NEVER go back to life before Dashpivot.

It is so simple. I put off getting an online system for sooooo long because I dreaded the thought of getting a new system, having to set it all up and having to teach everyone how to use it. I also envisaged me being the port of call every time it stopped working or people didn't know what they were doing. I now wish I had done it a long time ago. The set up was so basic. I had 45 minutes of training over the phone in front of my PC and I was set to go! By the end of the day, I had already gone from "I'm just going to start off with Site Diaries and implement everything else gradually" to "this is bloody amazing, everything is now on Dashpivot and everyone is using it!" We converted our entire site and internal systems over to Dahpivot by Site Mate in the space of a day! True story.

At the beginning of my use of the phone application, it did not support the Arabic language I contacted customer service and my request was taken seriously, and within a short period of time, a phone application was updatet to support the Arabic language

Customer support for ECM -XD has been very responsive and quick to resolve issues and answer inquiries. Help contact links aren't very visible within the platform, and mobile or tablet support doesn't look to be documented. Overall, support is great from a functional perspective but could be easier to find and use with improvements in layout and interface design.

Implementation was super easy and dare I say fun! I thoroughly enjoyed the implementation process. We all got excited coming up with suggestions and ideas for what we could implement next.

Some onsite audit tools are hard to use, they do not transfer well to a mobile platform. Dashpivot is easy to read and use on any mobile device. Additionally other platforms make the document build cumbersome, DashPivot is simple and easy to develop or copy new tools.

• Dashpivot helps keep track of the resources and finances being used in a project making it easy for us to make well-informed decisions.
• It usually would take a day to get the report to the Project Engineer, but with the Dashpivot the reports are almost instant with a good internet connection.

• Large annual cost savings ($500K+) in hardware and storage space of complaint-related documentation by moving to cloud platform.
• Significant time savings in information retrieval and audit preparation by centralizing information for multiple users to single repository.
• Easier GMP, ISO, and FDA regulation compliance through comprehensive linkage of documentation and customer feedback timeline.