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What's New in QUMAS DocCompliance 4.4
*Open to QUMAS Clients Only
Webinar Overview
Murtuza Vasowalla, Director, Global Solutions Consulting, will provide a detailed overview of QUMAS DocCompliance 4.4 and the business benefits you will receive by upgrading to this release. New functionality will be reviewed vis-à-vis DocCompliance 4.01
Key topics will include:
- Functionality Changes
- Business Benefits
- Options for Upgrades
Featured Speaker:
Murtuza Vasowalla, Director, Global Solutions Consulting
Length:
37 minutes
Originally Aired: Wednesday August 25, 2010
QUMAS DocCompliance Health Check Series: Ensuring the optimal performance of your DocCompliance Solution
*Open to QUMAS Clients Only
Webinar Overview
QUMAS recently conducted an internal survey to better understand how our customers are currently using our DocCompliance Solution. Examining your DocCompliance Solution periodically to improve performance and identify potential issues is crucial to keeping your business running optimally and well positioned to handle future growth.
Our survey revealed that there are a number of components which could significantly increase your Return on Investment (ROI) as well as increase efficiency and minimize risk across multiple functional areas.
QUMAS has developed a series of offerings designed to help you achieve your system's optimal health and to better align IT requirements with business requirements. Specifically, the QUMAS DocCompliance Health Check Series consists of the following three (3) components:
QUMAS DocCompliance APPLICATION Health Check - An assessment of the configuration and use of DocCompliance to ensure 'Current Best and Common Practices'. The benefits of this component include:
- Ensure optimal QUMAS usage and performance
- Review all configurations and integrations and provide recommendations
- Leverage best practices and consulting knowledge
- QUMAS Support case management
QUMAS DocCompliance SYSTEM Health Check - An assessment to benchmark the operating condition and performance of your application. The benefits of this component include:
- Identify the root cause of performance issues to immediately improve response times
- Ensure all components are performing optimally and have sufficient resources to support ongoing business activities
- Use extensive report provided at the conclusion of the audit as a blueprint for continued fine tuning of your QUMAS implementation
QUMAS DocCompliance DATABASE Health Check - An assessment that ensures your database is properly optimized. The benefits of this component include:
- Immediately realize performance and stability improvements
- Maximize the performance of your database
- Proactively identify the source of hidden problems
- Significant revenue savings by eliminating the need for database consult
During this 30-minute webinar (including Q&A session) John Ferguson, Solution Consultant, QUMAS will present the offerings listed above.
Featured Speaker:
John Ferguson, Solutions Consultant, Global Professional Services
Length:
31 minutes
Originally Aired: Thursday, April 29, 2010
Advantages of Using the QUCOMM User Forum- Learn How!
*Open to QUMAS Clients Only
Webinar Overview
QUMAS clients are invited to join the QUCOMM Committee Chair, Dr. Joerg Stueben of Boehringer Ingelheim, and members of the QUMAS team for a 30 minute webinar on the benefits of QUMAS User Community, QUCOMM, membership.
Dr. Stueben will provide details of the Committee achievements to date and will outline plans for 2010.
Marcus Reynolds from QUMAS will provide a demonstration on how best to use the online user community forum, including how to:
- create discussion threads
- respond to discussion threads
- find helpful documentation
- meet other community members
We will also provide details on how you can win a free pass to next years User Conference, QUMAS Connect 2011!
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Joerg Stueben, QUCOMM Chair, Boehringer Ingelheim
Marcus Reynolds, QUMAS
Length:
31 minutes
Originally Aired: Thursday, March 25, 2010
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QUMAS R&D Solution: Making the most of your DocCompliance Investment
*Open to QUMAS Clients Only
Webinar Overview
QUMAS is hosting a 30-minute (including Q&A session) online Webinar featuring our resident Regulatory expert Patricia Santos-Serrao, RAC on March 16, 2010 entitled "QUMAS R&D Solution: Making the most of your DocCompliance Investment". In this webinar Patricia will present an overview of the complete QUMAS R&D Solution as well as examples of how current customers have expanded their use of DocCompliance throughout functional areas, often having started in Quality and growing into additional areas such as Regulatory Affairs, Clinical, and Nonclinical. Patricia will focus on the best practice implementations of:
- QUMAS DocCompliance R&D Configuration
- Defined Document Types for Functional Areas such as Clinical, Regulatory, and Nonclinical
- Industry Best Practice Metadata / Extended Attributes for each Document Type
- Detailed taxonomy for organizing documents as well as correspondence
- ISIWriter - Integrated Authoring Templates Mapped to R&D Document Types
- 200+ eCTD granularity templates for global electronic submission requirements
- Pre-configured mapping of relevant authoring templates based on Document Type
- EXTEDO eCTDmanager - Integrated with DocCompliance
- Multi-functional application that supports publishing of CTD/eCTD submissions with Study Tagging Files (STFs) and electronic labeling files, and other format submissions
- Tightly integrated with DocCompliance to leverage metadata and lifecycle of documents as used in submissions
- QUMAS Collaborative Review - Collaborative document reviewing and authoring integrated with DocCompliance
- Reduced review/edit cycles for working documents
- Simultaneous, real-time collaboration
- One-click action on proposed changes and comments from multiple authors/reviewers
- Controlled collaboration with internal and external authors
- QUMAS Bulk Loader
- Fast and efficient import of folders and/or files into DocCompliance, while maintaining taxonomy, permissions and metadata on import
- Rules-based automatic import rules for files and folders
Featured Speaker:
Patrícia Santos-Serrão, Regulatory Advisor, QUMASLength:
31 minutes
Originally Aired: Tuesday, March 16, 2010
QUMAS ComplianceUnity Overview*
*Open to QUMAS Clients Only
Webinar Overview
In response to feedback provided by the client community, QUMAS has developed a world class business intelligence solution: QUMAS ComplianceUnity.
QUMAS ComplianceUnity delivers an integrated view of your enterprise's compliance health, providing oversight across all functions, as well as the capacity to drill down to detailed incident information. A variety of approaches are available for viewing information, by regulation, by functional area, by role, by risk level, and so on. Access to all information is in real-time, is consistent, and is accurate. All reporting and scorecarding in ComplianceUnity ultimately leads to quality control and assurance, providing not only oversight, but actionable information where issues are identified.
During this 45 minute webinar, QUMAS Senior Solutions Consultant, Kelly Lenz Carr provides an overview of the solution and highlight some of the many dashboards within ComplianceUnity which include:
- Compliance Trends: Document Release History, Workflow Release History, R&U Completion History, Average Workflow Duration By Type
- Document Review: Documents Due for Review, Documents Overdue for Review
- Workflow: Delayed Workflow Panels By Type, Workflow Status Summary, Delayed Workflow Panels By Group
- Read & Understood: Pending R&U By Document, Pending R&U By User, Pending R&U By Group
Featured Speaker:
Kelly Lenz Carr, Senior Solutions Consultant, QUMASLength:
41 minutes
Originally Aired: Thursday December 17, 2009
QUMAS Global Professional Services for Increasing the Flexibility of Your Organizational Resources*
*Open to QUMAS Clients Only
Webinar Overview
Whether you are implementing QUMAS Software for the first time, on-boarding a new division or integrating with another technical solution, experiencing a heavier work-load than normal, or are light-handed due to staff shortage, the ability to access temporary resources during these times is critical to the overall success of your business objectives.
While QUMAS Professional Services is most recognized for our implementation expertise, we can also provide the same expert resources to our clients during other times of need. QUMAS Global Professional Services commits to providing comprehensive quality staffing services to our clients focusing on:
- Reducing compliance risk
- Extending the return on your investment
- Saving resource time
- Providing staffing flexibility to allow you to focus on core business needs
This presentation illustrates our comprehensive approach to implementing solutions and how QUMAS has aligned our servicing model to accommodate all phases of a customer engagement. Fundamentally, QUMAS supports a 'Just-in-time' model for providing solutions to resource gaps. QUMAS provides an opportunity to fill such service gaps with experienced people as required. In this presentation, Sean Winslow, VP of Global Professional Services, provides a high-level overview of these staffing opportunities and describes three of our most popular staffing options. He also provides some real-world examples and testimonies, followed by next steps on how you can engage GPS for your staffing needs.
Featured Speakers:
Sean C. Winslow, VP Global Professional ServicesLength:
30 minutes
Originally Aired: August 20th, 2009
MyQUMAS: The New User Interface for DocCompliance, ProcessCompliance & Dashboard Reporting*
*Open to QUMAS Clients Only
Webinar Overview
In this session, Cyril Walsh, Senior Solutions Consultant at QUMAS, demonstrates the key features of MyQUMAS, a web-based compliance framework that provides a single point of access from which users can monitor their areas of responsibility and perform specific tasks across Compliance initiatives. MyQUMAS enables users to access functionality in QUMAS DocCompliance and QUMAS ProcessCompliance through a user-friendly interface that provides all compliance content and tasks in one view.
The 40-minute webinar focuses on the key benefits of MyQUMAS, including:
- Single sign-in allows seamless interaction with MyQUMAS as the 'front door' to other QUMAS solutions and existing company applications. Search results can be viewed in lists or grid views, as required by the user
- Direct linking to the Administration modules in DocCompliance and ProcessCompliance provides ease of access for Administrators
- A simple, intuitive user interface and the ability to create unlimited views based on roles and permissions, simplifies and reduces the costs of regulatory compliance management
- Only the functionality users require is accessible to them, reducing training and maintenance requirements
- Central information point providing unified access to tasks and alerts
- At-a-glance views of policies, SOPs events, deadlines, and organizational compliance status
- One click printing provides instant printing, just click and collect, saving time and effort
- Read and Understood functionality is built into the document view
- Dashboarding for both Executives & Coordinators
- Real-time and Ad-hoc Reporting
Featured Speakers:
Cyril Walsh, Solutions Consultant, QUMASLength:
40 minutes
Originally Aired: July 22nd, 2009
*Enhancing the Performance of Your QUMAS DocCompliance System
*Open to QUMAS Clients Only
Webinar Overview
Learn how to enhance the performance of your QUMAS DocCompliance system and how to realize greater performance and system optimization at no extra cost to your organization.
This webinar with QUMAS Technical Services Manager, Noel O'Brien, addresses the most common challenges including:
- Optimum Performance
- DocCompliance Best Practices
- Common Support Cases
Featured Speakers:
Noel O'Brien, Manager Technical ServicesLength:
50 minutes
Originally aired June 17th, 2009
*Extending QUMAS DocCompliance Across Your Organizations Through Integrations
*Open to QUMAS Clients Only
Learn how to leverage your existing QUMAS software investment and increase your ROI by extending DocCompliance across the organization through integrations including Microsoft SharePoint 2007, LMS and ERP Systems.
QUMAS has a flexible and proven integration approach that enables you to reuse the core feature set of DocCompliance creating a solid foundation for a broad category of solution integrations. As well as increasing your ROI, integrations provide many benefits ensuring compatibility across your organizational systems thereby protecting your solution investments.
Current integrations include but are not limited to:
- LMS Environments, control the roll-out of training content to your corporate LMS
- ERP Systems, allow users working with SAP and other major ERP systems to access compliance content in a seamless way
- Portal Environments, expose compliance content and tasks in a portal environment of your choice, for example SharePoint 2007, Corporate Intranet, Joomla and WIKIs
Featured Speaker:
Aidan Quilligan, Head of Technical Product ManagementLength:
31 minutes
Originally aired June 11th, 2009
QUMAS Health Check Series Overview - Client Webinar*
Webinar Overview
Do you know if your QUMAS solution is operating efficiently and if you are leveraging your system to its full capabilities?
In this session, Sean Winslow, VP Professional Services, gives an overview of the Health Check Series that QUMAS has developed, to help you achieve your systems optimal health and to ensure that you have aligned IT with your business requirements.
The QUMAS DocCompliance Health Check Series consists of 3 elements:
- QUMAS DocCompliance Application Health Check
- QUMAS DocCompliance Systems Health Check
- QUMAS DocCompliance Database Health Check
Featured Speaker:
Sean Winslow, VP of Professional ServicesOriginally Aired: October 16, 2008
*This webinar is open to QUMAS clients only. Register Now To Download!
Maximizing QUMAS DocCompliance 4.x
Webinar Overview
Are you thinking about upgrading from QUMAS DocCompliance version 3.3 to 4.x, or are you a current 4.x user who is interested in getting more from the system?
This presentation will showcase the new functionality in the latest version of DocCompliance. The focus will be on the end-user experience, with special attention to:
- Usability: Bulk Updates, Copy Document, Mark Read and Understood, Pick List Dependencies, Simplified Printing and Search (Content & Metadata Combined)
- Streamlined/Enhanced Workflow: Activate, Auto Promote, Meaning of Signature (Approval & Disapproval), Removal of Associations
- Lifecycle Enhancements: Direct Lifecycle States, Signatures
DocCompliance 4.x contains several enhancements that are designed specifically for users in Regulatory Affairs and Clinical Ops, as well as Quality and Manufacturing, so both current users as well as employees from departments considering using DocCompliance are encouraged to attend.
Featured Speaker: Warren Perry, Compliance Advisor, QUMAS
Originally Aired as Part of the QUMAS Client Webinar Series: May 29, 2008
QUMAS ProcessCompliance, A Guide to Change Control
Webinar Overview
In this session, Cyril Walsh, Solutions Consultant at QUMAS, discusses the key considerations for Change Control. Cyril takes a deep dive into the forms that are required, the roles that are involved and the workflow that harnesses business rules to determine the route taken to completion and sign off.
This 45-minute presentation focuses on what a good change control system should include:
- Forms for tracking the change control, capturing the details of the impacted areas, the decision flow, and departments/sites involved
- Tracking the change through the phases: Initiation, Impact Assessment, Evaluation, Execution, Implementation and Closure
- Updated policies, procedures and SOPs based on the outcome of the change control
- Point-in-time reporting for management or for change owners who are responsible for the change, and dashboards for executives
Featured Speaker: Cyril Walsh
Originally Aired as part of the QUMAS Client Webinar Series: May 20, 2008
QUMAS ProcessCompliance, A Guide to Audit Management
Webinar Overview
In this session, Cyril Walsh, Solutions Consultant at QUMAS, discusses the key considerations for Audit Management. Cyril takes a deep dive into the forms that are required, the roles that are involved and the workflow that harnesses business rules to determine the route taken to completion and sign off.
This 45-minute presentation focuses on what a good audit management system should include:
- Forms for tracking the audit, capturing whether it is internal or external, audit findings, including non-conformances, observations, and recommendations
- Focus on Non-Conformance identification and resolution
- Updated policies, procedures and SOPs based on the outcome of the nonconformance
- Creation of audit report, follow-up actions, and generation of the 'Certificate of audit'
- Point-in-time reporting for management or for auditors who are responsible for the audit, and dashboards for executives
Featured Speaker: Cyril Walsh
Originally Aired as part of the QUMAS Client Webinar Series: May 15, 2008
QUMAS DocCompliance and Collaborative Authoring
Webinar Overview
As companies become more virtual and global, the need for fluid partnerships and sharing of information while maintaining control over intellectual property becomes a challenge in every industry, particularly in Life Sciences. For example, companies rely on Contract Manufacturer Organizations (CMO) to produce their products and Clinical Research Organizations (CRO) to conduct their clinical trials. With these partnerships comes the need for collaboration and sharing of documents and information: using email and 'Track Changes' doesn't come close to providing the level of functionality and control that is required.
In this 45 minute presentation QUMAS Global Regulatory Affairs Manager, Patricia Santos Serrao RAC, will discuss and demonstrate QUMAS solutions for the following topics:
- Simplifying workflows to streamline processes from creation to approval.
- Realtime web-based collaboration with internal and external resources
- Overcoming the challenges and current limitations of linear method of checkin / checkout for editing of documents
- Extending external partnerships without compromising security
Featured Speaker: Patricia Santos Serrao
Originally Aired as part of the QUMAS Client Webinar Series: May 8, 2008
QUMAS DocCompliance and QUMAS Bulk Loader
Webinar Overview
One challenge that is faced by all life sciences companies is the management of bulk content. With the shift to migrating from paper paradigms to electronic, as well as the frequent engagements with external resources such as CROs and CMOs, the need for managing the importing and exporting of content to and from a controlled repository in a streamlined fashion becomes critical.
In this 45 minute presentation Patricia Santos Serrao RAC will discuss and demonstrate solutions for the following topics:
- Bulk Loading tools for manually importing bulk content
- Rules based approach to import automation; allowing your technology to do the work for you.
- Getting the most benefit out of your scanning solutions in managing controlled documents; producing agency compliant scanned output
Featured Speaker: Patricia Santos Serrao
Originally Aired as part of the QUMAS Client Webinar Series: May 6, 2008
QUMAS DocCompliance eCTD and Authoring Templates
Webinar Overview
The January 1, 2008 deadline for eCTD has come and gone, challenging more and more companies with making the changes that come when transitioning from paper or legacy format submissions to eCTD. The primary challenges revolve around managing not only the document lifecycle of individual submission documents but managing the submission lifecycle itself. The eCTD format is designed to enhance the full lifecycle of a submission, not just the individual application.
In this 45 minute presentation, Patricia Santos Serrao RAC, Manager of Global Regulatory Solutions at QUMAS, will discuss and demonstrate QUMAS solutions for the following topics:
- Implementing solutions for the authoring of eCTD compliant granular documents for all functional areas contributing to an eCTD
- Different approaches to implementing solutions for electronic records management as well as requirements for electronic signatures
- Tips and advice on configuring taxonomy, document types and streamlining the creation, authoring, reviewing and approving of documents
- Time saving tips on building your submissions to minimize workload as submission deadlines approach
Featured Speaker: Patricia Santos Serrao
Originally Aired as Part of the QUMAS Client Webinar Series: April 30, 2008
QUMAS 'Upgrade Now' Client Webinar*
Webinar Overview
This client webinar provides a detailed overview of the QUMAS 'Upgrade Now' program.
Upgrade Now allows QUMAS clients to leverage usability, performance, and support enhancements that are only available in QUMAS DocCompliance 4.01. This packaged offering is designed to make the transition as easy as possible. The focus of this 40 minute presentation is on the various elements of the program, the resulting client benefits and customer experiences to-date.*This webinar replay is available to QUMAS clients and partners only.
Featured Speaker: Sean Winslow, Director, Global Professional Services, QUMAS
Originally Aired: Thursday, December 13, 2007