CQ x Salesforce: Why Quality Leaders Prefer an EQMS built on the Salesforce Platform
When a leading global manufacturer—that produces forgings, material handling equipment, and other components for the automotive, aerospace, and industrial sectors—needed to upgrade its legacy quality management system, it sought more than just a software replacement.
With operations spanning multiple countries and thousands of employees, it was facing significant challenges in managing quality processes across locations and manufacturing plants. The company’s quality and compliance leaders were grappling with low user adoption, inflexible workflows, and the inability to integrate their quality system with other critical business systems like ERP and CRM. It was also becoming a challenge for the IT team to maintain and upgrade the legacy solution.
After a thorough evaluation, they chose ComplianceQuest's EQMS to overcome these hurdles. A key reason for their decision was that ComplianceQuest is built on the Salesforce platform. This provided the scalability, stability, and advanced capabilities needed to streamline operations, enhance user experience, and integrate seamlessly with their existing systems. The result? A modern, flexible solution that not only supports their current operations but is also poised to grow with their business.
This industrial manufacturing company is not alone. 300+ companies across various industries including manufacturing, life sciences, MedTech, automotive, aerospace, hi-tech and CPG sectors are choosing ComplianceQuest for its next generation capabilities.
ComplianceQuest’s Competitive Advantage as a Salesforce Summit Partner
As a Salesforce Summit Partner (Salesforce’s highest partnership tier), ComplianceQuest is uniquely positioned to deliver innovative quality, safety, and compliance solutions that leverage the Salesforce Platform’s strengths. This partnership enhances CQ’s ability to rapidly adopt Salesforce’s platform innovations—from embedded analytics to advanced AI capabilities—ensuring that customers benefit from the latest in cloud technology.
The Summit Partner status also reflects CQ’s expertise and deep alignment with Salesforce’s vision, providing customers with industry-leading solutions that are both reliable and scalable.
What Quality Leaders Look for in a Modern EQMS
Today’s quality leaders are not just seeking software that checks the compliance box—they need a system that helps them proactively manage risks, improve operational efficiency, and ensure continuous improvement. Here’s what modern quality leaders are prioritizing in an EQMS:
- Seamless integration with other systems (like ERP and CRM) for end-to-end visibility.
- Ease of use with high user adoption rates, driven by an intuitive interface.
- Advanced analytics for data-driven decision-making, enabling faster insights from quality data.
- Scalability to grow alongside the business without facing infrastructure bottlenecks.
- Automation and AI to streamline manual processes and improve operational efficiency.
- Cloud-based access for real-time data availability from anywhere.
- Stability and reliability to ensure consistent performance even as the business scales.
- Customization with Low Code: The ability to quickly create new workflows and apps using drag-and-drop tools without heavy reliance on IT.
- Strong data management and data governance: The ability to ensure secure access to data based on proper governance and authentication.
Of course, all of these requirements are in addition to the core need: the ability to streamline and automate QMS processes and workflows.
Quality managers are looking for an EQMS solution that offers deep functionality across all key quality processes - audits, inspections, CAPA, Change Control, Equipment Management, Lab Investigations, Management Review Non-Conformance, Risk Management, Supplier Management, Complaint handling, etc.
In fact, they want to go beyond QMS processes and choose a Digital Quality+ Platform - one that makes it easy to integrate product quality, design quality, supplier relationship management, risk management, health & safety and sustainability processes through a unified solution. With such a platform, there’s seamless flow of data, information across team, departments and people across the lifecycle of a product/service.
How ComplianceQuest Delivers on These Needs
ComplianceQuest is purpose-built to meet these expectations. CQ brings advanced capabilities like AI, data analytics, scalability, and stability to the fore, transforming how quality teams operate, leveraging Salesforce Platform’s capabilities to the fullest.
- AI & Advanced Analytics Capabilities: The Salesforce Platform is well-suited for building advanced analytics and AI capabilities at scale. With a robust data management layer, it becomes easy to build analytics, AI, ML, NLP and other advanced capabilities on top of it. This solid data foundation is a ‘must-have’ to build AI models that can identify patterns, recommend next steps, run predictive analytics and also deploy AI agents to automate specific tasks.
Salesforce PaaS comes with Einstein Analytics and Einstein AI, which make it easier and faster to build analytics and AI capabilities at scale. It becomes easier to setup dashboards, track several KPIs and give data access to authenticated users with high levels of security and data governance. - Connected Quality Management: CQ integrates seamlessly with other business systems, providing a unified source of truth for all quality and related data. This connected approach ensures that data from audits, risk management, training, and equipment maintenance, etc. is accessible in a single system, helping to drive cross-department collaboration and continuous improvement.
The Salesforce Platform: 10 Key Benefits for End-Users
Here’s how the Salesforce platform enhances the experience for end-users of ComplianceQuest’s EQMS:
Seamless Integration
The Salesforce Platform makes the process of integration with other systems easier and more efficient. CQ integrates with ERP, CRM, SRM, PLM, and other key business systems, making it easier for users to access all the data they need in one place—improving visibility and decision-making.
Constant Platform Upgrades
The Salesforce Platform is constantly upgraded, keeping pace with emerging technologies. ComplianceQuest is a Salesforce Summit Partner which means users benefit from continuous platform upgrades, ensuring that they always have the latest features, security patches, and improvements without any disruption. This allows IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than routine maintenance.
Flexibility
Salesforce’s flexible architecture allows for easy customization of workflows and processes. With CQ, business users can configure their EQMS to meet specific needs, adapting quickly to changes in business operations or regulatory requirements, without relying heavily on IT.
User-Friendly Interface for Higher Adoption
Salesforce’s intuitive interface promotes higher user adoption across teams. With CQ’s Salesforce-based platform, employees can easily navigate and engage with the system, resulting in reduced training time and increased productivity. The familiar user interface improves system adoption across departments.
AI-Powered Automation
Going from one step of the quality workflow to the next can sometimes become inefficient. For instance, a non-conformance will need a CAPA process triggered, and findings from the CAPA will require some Change Management. With CQ, going from one step to the next is accelerated with the power of AI and automation. Of course, these have built by CQ at the application level, but a robust platform makes it easier in terms of setting up these automations.
Mobile Access for Real-Time Responsiveness
Salesforce’s mobile-friendly platform ensures that quality teams can access real-time data from anywhere. CQ users can stay on top of quality tasks, resolve issues, and make critical decisions on the go—enabling faster responses and greater operational agility.
Collaboration Tools
Salesforce offers powerful collaboration tools such as Chatter, which enables real-time communication and teamwork across the organization. CQ leverages these tools, helping quality and compliance teams work seamlessly together, share updates, and maintain transparency throughout processes. Of course, we also integrate with collaboration tools outside the Salesforce ecosystem. For instance, we now offer integration with Microsoft Teams for reporting non-conformance from within Teams.
Advanced Reporting and Analytics
Salesforce’s robust reporting and analytics capabilities empower ComplianceQuest users to generate real-time insights. Quality leaders can track KPIs, audit results, risk assessments, and more with ease—enabling data-driven decision-making and driving continuous improvement.
Scalability
Salesforce is built for enterprise-level scalability. CQ’s Salesforce-based platform allows businesses to easily scale their EQMS as they grow—whether that means adding new users, expanding to new regions, or integrating additional modules—without compromising performance.
Everything from identity management to compute and storage infrastructure requirements is automatically handled at the platform level. This makes it easier for IT teams to manage an EQMS built on the Salesforce Platform.
Stability, Security & Trust
Salesforce offers industry-leading stability, with 99.9% uptime and robust security protocols such as data encryption and compliance with global standards like HIPAA and SOC 2. CQ, built on Salesforce, benefits from this security, ensuring that all quality and compliance data is safe, reliable, and continuously protected.
Conclusion: Why CQ, built on Salesforce, is the Modern EQMS for You
ComplianceQuest’s EQMS, built on the Salesforce platform, provides the scalability, stability, and advanced features that modern quality leaders need. Whether you’re looking to streamline processes, integrate AI and data analytics, or simply need a more user-friendly system, CQ’s Digital Quality+ Platform is the ideal solution.
Here, we share some anecdotal quotes we received from our customers and quality leaders:
An EQMS built on Salesforce is a blessing to have. People at our company are already familiar with the interface, integration with our CRM and ERP is fairly straightforward, and most importantly it is a secure platform.
The analytics capabilities in ComplianceQuest are fantastic. It makes data-driven decision-making faster and easier. With Salesforce’s Einstein Analytics Platform available, the company is also able to innovate at a good pace, in terms of data capabilities.
With a Salesforce-based solution like ComplianceQuest, we know for a fact that the system can scale with ease, without any bottlenecks. This was an important consideration for us. Of course, with a Salesforce-based solution there is also the platform’s security and reliability that we took into account while choosing the QMS.
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