Greenlight Guru vs. OpenText ALM/Quality Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Greenlight Guru
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Greenlight Guru is a quality management platform designed specifically for medical device companies. The platform is designed to help companies get safer products to market faster, simplify FDA and ISO regulatory compliance, and provide a single source of truth by connecting the management of all quality processes like CAPAs, risk, audits, document control, training, design control and more. The vendor invites device makers across the globe to…N/A
OpenText ALM/Quality Center
Score 7.7 out of 10
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OpenText™ ALM/Quality Center, formerly from Micro Focus, serves as the single pane of glass for software quality management. It helps users to govern application lifecycle management activities and implement rigorous, auditable lifecycle processes.N/A
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Small Businesses
Polarion ALM
Polarion ALM
Score 9.3 out of 10
Polarion ALM
Polarion ALM
Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Polarion ALM
Polarion ALM
Score 9.3 out of 10
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Polarion ALM
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Polarion ALM
Polarion ALM
Score 9.3 out of 10
Polarion ALM
Polarion ALM
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Greenlight GuruOpenText ALM/Quality Center
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(15 ratings)
7.2
(31 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
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(0 ratings)
3.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
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(0 ratings)
7.4
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
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1.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Greenlight GuruOpenText ALM/Quality Center
Likelihood to Recommend
Greenlight Guru
Greenlight Guru is well-suited for medical device companies. They have exceptional resources that are especially helpful for smaller, start-up type companies, including customizable SOPs, Forms, and Work Instructions, as well as countless other educational resources on focused topics like Risk Management or Auditing. Greenlight Guru is NOT currently able to be integrated into any ERP systems and therefore may be difficult for the Operations and Quality aspects of the organization if, for example, manufacturing is being performed in-house, and the ERP system is used to document all quality events. (In this case, it would be redundant to also document them in Greenlight Guru - although could potentially be useful to document investigation details.) Greenlight Guru also only allows documents to be uploaded one at a time, so for companies that want to convert their existing DHF or other QMS files into Greenlight Guru for completeness, this process could be incredibly time consuming.
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OpenText
For an organisation that has completely adopted SAFe structure including naming terminology, it is less appropriate and apart from that. It can suit any organisation out there, and it can solve all your problems one way or another by customising it. It is a robust and highly scalable solution to support all the business needs. It improves a lot of productivity and visibility.
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Pros
Greenlight Guru
  • Greenlight Guru is designed specifically for medical device companies. In that, the platform helps meet FDA and ISO regulatory requirements.
  • Greenlight makes document review and approval easy - navigating the system is intuitive.
  • The Greenlight Guru team appreciates unfiltered customer feedback. They do take the voice of the customer seriously and will work to implement feature requests.
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OpenText
  • If you have a mix of automation & manual test suites, HPALM is the best tool to manage that. It definitely integrates very well with HP automation tools like HP Unified Functional Testing and HP LoadRunner. Automated Suites can be executed, reports can be maintained automatically. It also classifies which test suites are manual & which are automated & managers can see the progress happening in moving from manual to automated suites. In HPA ALM all the functional test suites, performance test suites, security suites can be defined, managed & tracked in one place.
  • It is a wonderful tool for test management. Whether you want to create test cases, or import it, from execution to snapshot capturing, it supports all activities very well. The linking of defects to test runs is excellent. Any changes in mandatory fields or status of the defect triggers an e-mail and sent automatically to the user that the defect is assigned to.
  • It also supports devops implementation by interacting with development tool sets such as Jenkins & GIT. It also bring in team collaboration by supporting collaboration tools like Slack and Hubot.
  • This tool can integrate to any environment, any source control management tool bringing in changes and creates that trace-ability and links between source control changes to requirements to tests across the sdlc life-cycle.
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Cons
Greenlight Guru
  • Periodic review of documents is an industry standard that is missing
  • Would love a training matrix similar to the design matrix that links with procedures/work instructions
  • Ability to modify or add parameters in the analytics function for better trending metrics
  • Ability to modify or add to predetermined "lists" in CAPA, Audits, Nonconformance workspaces
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OpenText
  • The requirements module is not as user friendly as other applications, such as Blue Bird. Managing requirements is usually done in another tool. However, having the requirements in ALM is important to ensure traceability to tests and defects.
  • Reporting across multiple ALM repositories is not supported within the tool. Only graphs are included within ALM functionality. Due to size considerations, one or two projects is not a good solution. Alternatively, we have started leveraging the template functionality within ALM and are integrating with a third party reporting tool to work around this issue.
  • NET (not Octane) requires a package for deployment to machines without administrative rights. Every time there is a change, a new package must be created, which increases the time to deploy. It also forces us to wait until multiple patches have been provided before updating production.
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Likelihood to Renew
Greenlight Guru
I really like how Greenlight is structure and how organized it is.
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OpenText
I like the ease to use and its reliable.
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Usability
Greenlight Guru
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OpenText
Because it lets me track the test cases with detailed scenarios and is clearly separated in folders. Also the defect filter helps me filter only the ones that have been assigned to a particular area of interest. The availability of reports lets me see the essentials fields which I might be missing the data on and helps me to work on these instead of having to go through everything.
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Support Rating
Greenlight Guru
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OpenText
It is a great tool, however, it got this rating because there is a lot of learning that takes a lot longer than other tools. There are no mobile versions of ALM even with just a project summary view. I believe ALM is well capable of integration with other analytics tools that can help business solutions prediction based on current and past project data. This is Data held in ALM but with no other use apart from human reading and project progress. ALM looks like a steady platform that I believe can handle more dynamic functionality. You could add an internal communication platform that is not a third party. Limit that communication tool to specific project members.
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Alternatives Considered
Greenlight Guru
Greenlight Guru definitely has the better/more easily understood UI. I've tried several other training systems and haven't bumped into any of the issues I've faced before, like my training being completed by another person or glitches within the system. Greenlight Guru is a program that doesn't take too long to learn to use and get used to using.
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OpenText
We have other tools in our organization like Atlassian JIRA and Microsoft Team Foundation Server, which are very capable tools but very narrow in their approach and feature set and does not come even close to the some of the core capabilities of HP ALM. HP ALM is the "System of Record" in our organization. It gives visibility for an artifact throughout the delivery chain, which cut downs unnecessary bottlenecks and noise during releases.
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Return on Investment
Greenlight Guru
  • Greenlight Guru has freed up time and manpower to focus on improving the quality of our products rather than spending our energy on paperwork.
  • Greenlight Guru has enabled a more effective organization system for all records that are required to be kept.
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OpenText
  • ALM/QC has allowed for quick, traceable turnaround on relatively simple tasks
  • ALM/QC allows us to achieve our business objective of always being able to refer to a documented ticket for work being done.
  • ALM/QC navigation is not the easiest, so this aspect of the product has caused great frustration among new users.
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Screenshot of Design Control Spotlight: 
Documenting and managing Design Control traceability has never been easier. Perform Digital Design Reviews through flexible workflows to demonstrate compliance.Screenshot of Document Management Spotlight: 
Speed up reviews and approval workflows by keeping your records and procedures organized, up-to-date, and always accessible to the right people with role-based security.Screenshot of Risk Management Spotlight: 
Integrate Risk Management into all of your quality processes in a system that directly aligns with ISO 14971:2016.Screenshot of Post-Market Quality Events Spotlight:
Streamline your Post-Market Quality Activities to maintain full closed-loop traceability within your QMS.