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June - 2016 issue

QMS for the Modern Quality Manager

By Vignesh Anantharaj

Regulatory compliances are long known to cause headaches for quality mangers. This is basically due to frequent changes in governing bodies, technological changes with an equal pace of technological adoption , combined with the strict guidelines in the life sciences proves to be the reason for anxious days for the QMS teams. It is a tough task to safeguard quality process across the enterprise with regards to high economic constraints. This leads to us thinking as to how we can tackle limitations with regards to resources and loopholes in supply chains.

Over many debates among blog circles and events, cloud and data analytics seems to be the way forward (who would’ve guessed?) for these organizations. There are a lot of QMS vendors who are today addressing these issues. Amongst whom many have understood the manifestation of the cloud in providing better visibility to process chains and also ease of usage and integration of existing legacy systems. Additionally the value brought to the table by SaaS, PaaS and modest on premise infrastructures can be clearly understood in the way they alleviate security concerns. We also hear an increasing number of case studies that highlight the same. The vendors are positioning themselves in such a way that all it takes is a leap from legacy manual processes to these plug and play QMS solutions.

With the growing trend of mobility, omni channel communications provides employees with instant communications, lower data loss scenarios and good supply chain flexibility. Gartner’s famous digital mesh comes to the fore here as we are set to witness back end systems banish working in isolation and work towards a single connected source of critical information sharing system.

The cloud combined with data analytics presents a super detailed trail of instances for the quality managers. As business makers embrace big data, 2016-2017 will be the time period wherein they master the phenomenon and work towards extracting true value out of the data in hand.

In this issue, we have put together the 20 most promising QMS companies that can help quality managers of the modern tech world have a deeper understanding of the benefits of data visibility in terms of compliance, analytics in risk management and the cloud to transform the quality of their current processes.

Do let us know what you think.

Vignesh Anantharaj
Managing Editor
vignesh@cioreviewindia.com