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Greenlight Guru

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18 Reviews and Ratings

What is Greenlight Guru?

Greenlight Guru is a quality management platform designed specifically for medical device companies.

The platform is designed to help companies get safer products to market faster, simplify FDA and ISO regulatory compliance, and provide a single source of truth by connecting the management of all quality processes like CAPAs, risk, audits, document control, training, design control and more.

The vendor invites device makers across the globe to replace outdated paper-based and general-purpose legacy quality systems with Greenlight Guru to push beyond baseline compliance and achieve True Quality. A personalized demo is available at http://www.greenlight.guru

Categories & Use Cases

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Screenshot of Design Control Spotlight: 
Documenting and managing Design Control traceability has never been easier. Perform Digital Design Reviews through flexible workflows to demonstrate compliance.
Screenshot of Document Management Spotlight: 
Speed up reviews and approval workflows by keeping your records and procedures organized, up-to-date, and always accessible to the right people with role-based security.
Screenshot of Risk Management Spotlight: 
Integrate Risk Management into all of your quality processes in a system that directly aligns with ISO 14971:2016.
Screenshot of Post-Market Quality Events Spotlight:
Streamline your Post-Market Quality Activities to maintain full closed-loop traceability within your QMS.

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Screenshot of Design Control Spotlight: Documenting and managing Design Control traceability has never been easier. Perform Digital Design Reviews through flexible workflows to demonstrate compliance.

Great eQMS for Medical Device Startups

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Greenlight Guru for all of our Quality Management System needs, including design controls, document control, and risk management. Greenlight Guru allows us to develop our medical device products in a way that is compliant with requirements from the FDA and other regulatory bodies and is easily auditable for both internal and external audits.

Pros

  • Design traceability
  • Training management
  • Risk management

Cons

  • Occasional non-critical bugs (work isn't saved, documents load slowly, etc.)
  • Some processes take too many clicks.
  • Would love to see in-app support of more file types.

Most Important Features

  • Design traceability matrix
  • Document control
  • Change orders

Return on Investment

  • Saved a significant amount of consultant time.
  • Removed regulatory and audit risks.
  • Required cash and time investment.

Alternatives Considered

Qualio and MasterControl Quality Excellence

Other Software Used

Todoist: To-Do List & Task Manager, Asana, Xero

I like Greenlight Guru but they need to work on some features

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We needed an eQMS system.

Pros

  • Change orders.
  • Analytics.
  • Flow charts for complaints.
  • Flow charts for NCR.

Cons

  • Documents could are hard to searched.
  • It does not let you embed documents phases.
  • Other departments can see superseded documents it should only allow the RA/QA department to see them.

Most Important Features

  • Document control.
  • Organization.
  • Projects.

Return on Investment

  • It's very educative.
  • It makes it easier for audits.
  • FDA compliance.

Awesome company with an awesome product!

Pros

  • User friendly
  • The best customer service in the industry
  • Constant product updates

Cons

  • Some features we'd like do not get implemented, but they are not major
  • We'd like to see a few more integrations, especially with ERP systems

Most Important Features

  • Quick and efficient customer service
  • Constantly expanding platform

Return on Investment

  • Huge amounts of time saved
  • Lower potential for mistakes in a paper-based system

Other Software Used

Odoo, QuickBooks Online

Greenlight Guru - Ready, Set, GO!

Pros

  • Greenlight Guru is designed specifically for medical device companies. In that, the platform helps meet FDA and ISO regulatory requirements.
  • Greenlight makes document review and approval easy - navigating the system is intuitive.
  • The Greenlight Guru team appreciates unfiltered customer feedback. They do take the voice of the customer seriously and will work to implement feature requests.

Cons

  • Document editing must be accomplished by downloading and re-uploading.
  • While the software is generally intuitive, users do have to really use the software to become proficient and to take advantage of its capabilities.

Most Important Features

  • Document review, approval, and storage.

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact in that it was helpful during our ISO 13485 certification.

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)

Are you a medical device startup? Look no further, Greenlight Guru is the solution for you!

Pros

  • Excellent, knowledgeable (industry and software) support
  • Continue to evolve as a company - add new features consistently
  • Listens to customer feedback

Cons

  • In line document editing (but I am told this is coming!)
  • Ability to integrate with other systems (they are working on this I believe!)
  • Lack of user license variety - only Full or Lite.

Most Important Features

  • Document Management
  • Traceability built in
  • DHF creation

Return on Investment

  • Investors love our level of quality thanks to the impact of Greenlight Guru on our organization!
  • No questions asked, great ROI! We continue to be amazed at how easy it is to use and how we do not need to hire a full time Greenlight Guru Administrator.
  • Our software developers love the User Interface, and they are not easy to please!

Alternatives Considered

MasterControl Spark, Qualio, Arena PLM and QMS, AgileField and Veeva Vault