As an auditor and consultant working with companies to develop management system, and to audit systems, we’ve seen the same condition time and time again: companies have separate software solutions to manage quality and compliance issues for each of their company's various operational functions: calibration management, document management, lab management and so forth. Generally, each of these are point solutions designed to address issues unique to that functional environment, with little or no capability to share critical data with other environments. Lacking integration, these information silos become a hindrance to achieving the goal of overseeing quality and compliance issues for the entire enterprise...