MasterControl Quality Excellence Erfahrungen

It allows users to access one central site for document, training, deviations and CAPAs.

It is hard to customize the forms for global clients. The forms are not very flexible to make changes.

Document control, change control, and review workflows are among the biggest challenges facing our organization. MasterControl provides the means to apply industry best-practices, and excellent control and compliance, with intuitive, out-of-the box solutions. MasterControl Qx also integrates with MasterControl's Mx (Manufacturing Execution) system, a critical reason we chose it.

Onboarding has been challenging. This is not a flaw in MasterControl, but rather a feature: Connections, workflows, training, responsibilities, review cycles ... all have to be specified in detail. We didn't necessarily have all the information arranged in such a way as to make its entry into MasterControl 'easy'. However, once put together, the MasterControl system is far superior to its antecedent.

We have been using the Audit, Process, Documents and Training modules and find the interconnection between the modules to be the most useful functionality that we did not see with our other systems. MasterControl is easy to use and in most cases is intuitive in terms of the workflows and visibility to end users. The MasterControl Support team have been one of the best I've worked with and they will work quickly and effectively to ensure any issues are resolved and applicable feedback given.

Analytics / Reporting has been one of our main pain points and although there are many reports across the system and modules which show individual elements etc, there are not many reports which contain a full data set of information needed especially in terms of Training or Process reports. We also have some wishes for future enhancements to the software and this is where the MasterControl User Voice forum comes in most handy where users can submit ideas for enhancements as well as vote on other use voices.

It routes our documents along a workflow and it allows us to manage training in one platform

If a user hasn’t had a lot of experience with the system, they easily get lost.

Integration of all the modules - easy and usable

Nothing that I can think of, we are very happy about the product

Going through integration now. Team is very helpful.

Going through the integration now. Nothing to report on least.

Traceability of documents and control on revision change

End users struggle with search difficulties find what they want

The accessibility to launch and fill out forms for events.

How forms aren't able to customize per site. As every site is different from one another.

- Easy to configure and modify when necessary
- Very responsive customer service

- Process module is not very customizable (When customized, lose MC support if "breaks" during update)
- Jump start package created a mess for our documents module

The strength of MasterControl is that it is easy to configure. For documents and training someone new to MasterControl can take the free online training and be at a module admin level in 2-3 months. For the most part changes do not need to be validated because the configurations are so limited that the OQ/PQ can justify functions.

The weakness in MasterControl is that the configurations are so limited. There are often times when you expect the system to be able to do something only to find out that it is not fully capable of what you expected. And example would be setting up prerequisite courses. This would be a great feature for creating an entire curriculum. But a course can only have 1 prerequisite, when you might have expected to be able to assign multiple prerequisites. Since this feature/configuration is so simple the admins end up having to play a greater role in assigning training, because the system can't be configured in a complex fashion. While about 80% of the configuration make sense, the other 20% does not. Some features and configurations are just not intuitive.

Deviation and CAPA , these are compliance with ISO 9001 to manage Non-conformity. There are cover since investigation the root cause, risk assessment evaluation after the action to prevent recurrence problem. Which compliance the ISO 9001 requirement. When auditor audit that is easy to understand.

For me the feature are good but the security of access is not easy. I'm not sure that it's from IT set up or from Master control Excellent team.When my colleague are not access 1-2 month, when they access for Document review or investigation deviation, we always found cannot access. And require deactivate PW. It's not familiar to set up PW and remember when change.

Applicable throughout our company. Easy to develop forms as work-flows.

Training does not allow for open-ended review and comment. Exams are limited to multiple choice, true/false, matching, sequencing or numeric answers only.Users can be added to tasks without having roles assigned by a system administrator.

Document control has been the most impactful. We are not losing documents, manually tracking them down, and can now approve from anywhere. Our compliance has dramatically improved and also our efficiency.

There are still some gaps in features to make a quality system entirely paperless. We are not able to transition logs over because they don't entirely fit anywhere. FBS forms do not have the functionality we are looking for. We use Mx a lot as fillible forms for things such as donor screening and QC testing where more calculations and documentation are required.Configuration can be difficult depending on who the consultant is. You get a broad range and a different experience with each different person, some more pleasant experiences than others.

- Often includes impressive enhancements to the system between version updates
- Useful knowledge base that can be leveraged for troubleshooting defects or common issues
- Excellent document control
- Ability to implement Enterprise Business Units is useful for managing more than one business unit in the system

- Navigation can be challenging for end-users with both limited or expansive access and rights to the system
- Lack of GUI customization
- Occasional defects have caused quality issues
- jReports isn't completely user friendly therefore incorrect usage can slow down the system
- On-demand self-led library is not free which contains excellent resources that can be leveraged for end-user education and/or troubleshooting purposes

I don’t have to think about my EDMS. The system features assure compliance and efficiency.

Training features are frustrating in the sense that documents are inaccessible to users who have not completed a training task.

Scalability for a global organization with frequent acquisitions

License per module per user but have since switched to Qx Complete

There are so many different options you can choose to utilize to whatever best fits your company's needs. It's also great, because the different products can "communicate" with one another to pull information from one area to another. It saves our company so much time. Not to mention every time we have implemented a new product, it has been such a great experience. I know sometimes it can be stressful, but MC does such a great job at making the process as easy as possible. I truly can't say enough great things about the software of the company.

This isn't necessarily a software issue, we are hopefully upgrading to the cloud and we will have the new reporting system that we don't have now.

This software is a complete solution with more modules you can add being built all the time. It is cloud based and does more than any in house solution could be built to do for the same price. The support team is very responsive in accepting our suggestions for improvements.

Even though there is a lot of support, it can be time consuming and very labor intensive to integrate the many pieces needed to implement the entire solution. It is a bargain but still very pricey for a small company and this will eventually limit its market.

Being able to have all our documents in one place is great. Launching DCO packets is so easy. Being able to log into MasterControl from anywhere makes collaboration easy for anyone to do especially since we have been working from home.

Also having control of your documents and signature manifests from DCOs help to streamline audits.

I also have to say that MasterControl has been the easiest system to help keep all users training up to date and on time.

with all the updates and upgrades the cons I had have been improved