last highlighted date: 2024-02-19
Highlights
- Nonexistent!
- The software is accessible: The company has received enough licenses from the vendor so that every employee can access the software any time. (This goes both ways: Some vendors charge outrageous prices for additional user licenses. Some companies are unwilling to pay more money and try to re-use licenses.)
- The software is opinionated: It comes preconfigured with common-sense defaults which are easy to understand and ensure compliance. It doesn’t require days of configuration efforts, or even worse, a contractor who charges high hourly rates for setting it up for you.
- Confluence is the most common one I encounter. It’s not like people put a lot of thought into it before diving into the Atlassian ecosystem of Confluence + Jira and ending up with a huge, complex, slow-loading mess.
- Note: as it is in atlassian ecosystem, it is best option in repurposed QMS
- document signing (e.g. Komala)
- risk management (e.g. SoftComply)
- Configuration can be very difficult. Nobody tells you whether your custom configuration is ISO 13485 - compliant until you’re being audited
- Their software is probably not bad, but their business practice is still inherently shady: Their pricing model is really opaque (“contact sales”), it’s said to be incredibly expensive (at least five figures of USD per year), you don’t get access to all features (“tailored to your company”), they don’t provide you with a free trial (they don’t even provide their own sales people with a free trial), you can’t export your data easily, I mean.. damn. Not sure if this is really enticing for startups, or any rational company at all.
- Note: greenlight guru