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M-Files serves a variety of industries and business needs for mid-market to Enterprise global B2B companies.
Pharmaceutical, medical device, med tech, biotech, and cell and gene therapy companies all use MasterControl. We have options for every organization from small start-ups to global businesses.
My overall experience with M-Files is outstanding and I like more with their easy integration with other systems and flexibility in deployment.
Data Management System with Really Bad User Interface.
This application helps in all these functions and much more by its high quality features that are superb easy to handle as well.
It's not a user friendly program, there is no drag and drop option (currently) and it almost impossible to work with this software in a way that we work with windows.
Easy user intuitive interface that allows for dynamic and complex workflow processes. The ease of the install and how fast we were up and using it was amazing.
Typical for some IT-solutions: "almost anything can be done with M-Files. Takes away focus of what problem exactly is solved with M-files.
It will be the best money you spend and will save you the cost is saved searching in weeks.
Drop your files into the M-files and edit/download from where you are.
The service offered by MasterControl has been excellent and system setup was easy thanks to a very good support. Customer Service team, as they responds quickly and offer good solutions.
Training features are frustrating in the sense that documents are inaccessible to users who have not completed a training task.
I have been a MasterControl admin for over 8 years. From the start, it was apparent that MasterControl is super customer focused and wants their customer to succeed in implementation and beyond.
There are company-wide jokes about "Master Control Hell. At least it lets us bond in our commiseration.
Many standard but configurable solutions based on best practices. Great tools for pharmaceutical validation of their solution.
Requires very skilled and trained employees to execute the daily business processes. Lack of design / GUI customization.
Functionality in MasterControl is great and there are major enhancements on the horizon that will benefit our organization.
We have experienced issues and unfortunately some that have been repeated causing the business to loss confidence in the platform and the control / verification of updates.
Joe M.: My name's Joe. I'm a principal engineer. I'd give M-Files a 5 out of 5. And for more reviews like this, click down below. Before M-Files we used a PDM system. With switching to M-files, we considered some other software. We looked at using SOLIDWORKS and their PDM system as well as just using Windows. We selected M-Files because we really liked the way you could input metadata and use that to organize all of your files and search in a very powerful way for very detailed things within a document. We came from a more complicated system before using M-Files, so switching over to it was really nice and a blessing. It made it really easy to transition to M-Files. If you're thinking about getting into M-Files, I would really take a look at all the powerful tools that come along with inputting the metadata for each document into M-Files. It really opens up a lot of capability, especially when trying to find a very old document that you don't remember a whole lot about.
Deanna V.: I'm Deanna. I'm a quality system program manager. With the implementation of the MasterControl Quality Excellence tool, I would give it a five out of five. For more reviews like this, please click below. We were a new company that opened up, and we actually had no tools; we only had a paper tool. Prior to us opening up, I actually worked at the same site for a large organization that used another quality tool called TrackWise; however, the TrackWise tool wasn't integrated with other tools such as document control, which was Agile, and training, which was a [inaudible 00:00:37] administration system training. When we went to look for implementation, we wanted one tool where it was all connected, instead of being separate tools. When we went to look for implementation of selecting a software, we looked at multiple companies, and we were really looking for something that was fairly easy to implement and that was integrated between document controls, change controls, training, and other QMS tools we would be implementing. This tool seemed to be the most in line with the regulatory requirements we needed to comply with, and it seemed to be fairly simple in the implementation. During the implementation planning phase, we had to do a lot of cleanup of our own data, so most of our time was spent organizing our master data, and then being able to populate it into the spreadsheets for the upload, so the actual upload was fairly quick. We spent about 12 months cleaning up our data, and we spent about eight weeks from the point of being able to upload our data to completing the entire validation and go live, and we did this between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and it worked out fantastic. One of the recommendations I would have is to make sure your terminology is aligned between what MasterControl gives us for terminology and what you use in your business. For example, the use of deviations; that means something different to different organizations, so take the time to really make sure you understand those concepts and those words they're using so that, when you go to structure your data, it aligns with how they are planning on using that module and using that data. That will save you a great amount of difficulties you may experience after implementation, and we had a few of those because of the terminology issues. Always able to work through them, but we could have been more effective in implementation if we would have made sure we understand the terminology.
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