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IT Personnel looking to understand the technical footprint of the Ideagen Quality Management system.

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This article outlines the key information for Ideagen Quality Management licencing, including:

1. Ideagen Quality Management Editions
2. Ideagen Quality Management Licencing
3. SQL Licencing
4. Further Reading

1. Ideagen Quality Management Editions

1.1. Business Edition

Ideagen Quality Management Business Edition has been specifically designed to cater for compliance projects operating at a single physical location or at a defined number of separate locations.

Utilising an embedded SQL Server database, Business Edition is ideal for compliance projects with a total user community not exceeding 25 concurrent users.

Business edition comes with a single Ideagen Quality Management database but additional databases can be purchased separately to expand your usage.

1.2. Enterprise Edition

Ideagen Quality Management Enterprise Edition has been specifically designed for corporate compliance projects operating at a large number of locations, either nationally or internationally. 

Enterprise Edition is a fully scalable solution that is ideal for compliance projects with a significant user community across the entire organisation.

As standard, enterprise edition comes with 4 databases and additional databases can be purchased separately to expand your usage. 

Enterprise edition also includes:

• Session Timeout
• User Lockout
• Audit Log

1.3. Business Vs. Enterprise

The below table outlines the key differences between the editions of Ideagen Quality Management.

1.4. QMS Edition

Ideagen Quality Management QMS edition includes all of the standard modules as outlined in the Ideagen Quality Management 7 Functional Overview.

1.5. IMS Edition

Ideagen Quality Management IMS edition has been designed to allow a greater level of customisation around Incident reporting and also includes increased risk capabilities.

IMS includes the Incident and Occurrence modules, plus the Incident Analysis module.

Note: For more information on the modules and their purpose please visit Ideagen Quality Management 7 Functional Overview

2. Ideagen Quality Management Licencing

Ideagen Quality Management is based on a concurrent licensing model, meaning that a licence is taken whenever a user connects to the system.

Ideagen Quality Management is available with two separate licence options which are designed to be used in conjunction with each other: Primary licences cater for regular system users and Secondary licences cater for occasional users of the system.

For Ideagen Quality Management system administrators, this provides the flexibility to create individual user accounts with the licence option that is best suited to each user.

Primary Licences

Primary licences are full Ideagen Quality Management user licences and can have access to all areas of the system that have been assigned to them by the Ideagen Quality Management system administrator.

Primary licences offer full access to Ideagen Quality Management, as per security access rights assigned.

Secondary Licences

Secondary licences are Ideagen Quality Management user licences that offer limited access to the system across a restricted range of compliance activities.

Secondary licences provide access to functions that are secondary to the day-to-day operation of Ideagen Quality Management.

For more details on what a secondary licence can do please visit Secondary User Licences Explained

Ideagen Quality Management Licence File

Ideagen Quality Management is provided with a licence file which is installed on your application server. This includes:

• The number of concurrent primary users who can log in.
• The number of concurrent secondary users who can log in.
• Details of the features enabled:
  • • Session Timeout
    • Audit Log
    • User Lockout
    • Electronic Signatures
    • Incident and Occurrence modules
    • Web Reporting Portal

Looking for details on how to install your licence? Visit How to Install & Activate your Ideagen Quality Management Licence to get started and Ideagen Quality Management Licence Comparison for more details.

3. SQL Licencing

SQL Server is licensed through Microsoft Volume Licensing programs using two different licence models:

• Core-Based licensing
• Server+CAL licensing

For further information on SQL Licencing please visit the Microsoft SQL Licencing Guide.

Core-Based Model

The Core Based model is often used to support a large number of users. It allows you to licence your SQL server based on computing power. With this model any number of users can connect to the server. The number of licences required depend on the number of physical cores and the type of processor on the server. If you are running your server in a virtual environment then it is possible to licence a single virtual machine.

Server+CAL Model

The Server+CAL licence model is purchased for the server and each device/user that needs to connect to the SQL server. A licence allows you to run as many instances of the server as you like. This model is often used when the number of user/devices that require to connect to the server is known and the licensing cost is lower than the core based model.

4. Further Reading

• Technical Overview
• Functional Overview
• System Architecture
• Configuration Capabilities
• Hardware & Software Requirements
• Client Deployment Options
• Implementation Methodology
• Mobile app
• Data Dictionary