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QUALITY MANAGEMENT (QMS)

Audit-Ready Every Day — Not Just the Week Before

Built for teams working toward — or maintaining — ISO 9001, ISO 13485, or an equivalent standard. Document control, CAPA, audits, and training linked to every change, all inside the one governed system, so being ready for an audit is just how the system works.

Audit-Ready Quality Management System eQMS
Continuous ISO 9001 Audit Readiness

Automated document versioning, CAPA closeouts, and training verification in a single governed vault.

Illustrative example — QMS compliance engine
THE QUALITY FRICTION SCRAMBLE

Sound familiar?

Recognise your daily quality bottlenecks before an auditor points them out:

Procedures nobody fully trusts

Standard operating procedures live across shared drives, inboxes, and a few people's desktops. When someone needs the current version, they're not always sure they've found it — so they ask around instead, or worse, use whatever copy they already have saved.

Updates don't reliably land

A procedure changes, and the update goes out by email — but there's no real way to confirm who's actually seen it, let alone retrained on it. Months later, someone's still following the old version, and nobody notices until it shows up in an audit finding.

Corrective actions stall

A non-conformance gets logged in a spreadsheet, assigned informally, and then quietly loses momentum. Nobody's actively hiding it — there's just no system forcing it to a close-out. The same root cause shows up again at the next audit.

Audit prep is a scramble

An audit is announced, and someone spends the next week pulling together documents, sign-offs, and training records from wherever they happen to be sitting. It gets done, but it's disruptive every single time — audit-readiness that only exists right before someone's checking.

THE eQMS SOLUTION

One governed system for the whole quality process

Not four separate tools bolted together — the same underlying M-Files vault your team already uses for documents, configured around how quality actually works.

Controlled Documents and Metadata Governance
1

Controlled Documents, Always Current

Every SOP has one current, approved version — with a full history behind it, not a folder full of "final_v3_reallyfinal" files. Redlining, annotation, and multi-language support are built in, and permissions mean the right people see the right documents automatically.

Document Control Registries & Inventory Version Governance
Training Linked to Document Changes and Personnel Qualifications
2

Training Linked to Every Change

When a document updates, the people who need retraining are flagged automatically — including staff who aren't regular system users, like factory-floor or field personnel. Training records, qualifications, and certifications live in the same system as the documents they're tied to, so proving competency at audit time is a lookup, not a reconstruction.

Training & Learning Personnel Competency External Personnel Inclusion
CAPA Management and Automated Quality Audits
3

CAPA and Audits That Actually Close Out

Corrective and preventive actions get tracked to completion with deadlines and ownership, not lost in a spreadsheet. Recurring quality tasks — internal audits, periodic reviews — run on automated schedules with the evidence captured as they happen, so audit prep stops being a special event.

CAPA Management Internal & External Audits Task Automation
Digital Signatures and Compliance Audit Trails
4

Sign-Off and Compliance, Built In

Legally binding digital signatures — built-in, external, or handwritten, your choice — with the audit trail to prove it, including support for FDA 21 CFR Part 11 electronic-records requirements where that applies. Watermarking, print/download controls, and copy tracking round out the record-keeping side.

Digital Signatures FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Print & Copy Controls
SUPPORTED STANDARDS & COMPLIANCE FRAMEWORKS

Built for teams working toward — or maintaining — compliance

M-Files QMS provides out-of-the-box controls and evidence capture for key international regulatory standards:

ISO 9001 Quality Management System
FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Electronic Signatures & Audit Logs
EU GMP Annex 11 Computerized Systems Compliance
HIPAA Healthcare Data Privacy
SOX-404 Financial & Internal Controls
GDPR & APPs Privacy & Data Protection
City Fertility logo VERIFIED CLIENT

“City Fertility worked with Range IT on the implementation and roll out of M-Files, a fully featured QMS, Document Control system with additional modules. Working with Range was a great experience with dedicated team members who were very supportive and knowledgeable.”

Scott Osborne Head, Risk and Compliance / Company Secretary — City Fertility
CATEGORY BENCHMARK

Organisations using M-Files for quality management have reported results like an 80% reduction in time to manage change and modification requests, and non-conformity report turnaround dropping from 1–2 days to under a second.

Source: M-Files case study, HL Technology — cited as an industry benchmark, not a Range client result.
RECOGNISED GLOBAL LEADERSHIP IN QUALITY & INFORMATION GOVERNANCE
Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice

Gartner Magic Quadrant

Leader & Visionary in Enterprise Content Services

Forrester Total Economic Impact

Forrester TEI Study

Validated 301% ROI over 3 years

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TrustRadius Top Rated

Top Rated eQMS & Document Control 2026

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Nucleus Research

Ranked Leader 10+ consecutive years

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Common Questions About M-Files QMS & eQMS

Clear answers for quality managers, compliance officers, and operations leads.

ENTERPRISE CLOUD TRUST & SECURITY

M-Files Cloud Compliance & Platform Security

M-Files Cloud operates under strict international security frameworks, continuous third-party auditing, and enterprise-grade encryption so your organisation's data remains protected and audit-ready.

ISO 27001 Certified

M-Files operates an audited Information Security Management System (ISMS), enforcing continuous operational security controls and risk governance.

SOC 2 Audited

Annually verified by independent auditors under AICPA Trust Services Criteria for security, platform availability, and data confidentiality.

ISO 27018 Certified

Certified for protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in public cloud environments.

AES-256 & TLS Encryption

Documents encrypted at rest with AES-256 (FIPS 140-2 compliant); network traffic encrypted via HTTPS, VPN, or IPSec.

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure

Hosted on Microsoft Azure's global infrastructure, with data replicated three times in your primary region and three times in a secondary region. Exact hosting setup — cloud, on-premises, or hybrid — is confirmed during scoping.

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