Over the past several years, the LNS Research analyst team has been enjoying front-row seats to the quality management arena. We’ve collected data from more than 1,000 different quality management leaders, and have personally spoken to a good portion of them. Our analysis is showing many different trends, but one that’s standing out is the rising awareness and adoption of enterprise quality management software (EQMS).

Twenty-one percent of companies reported currently having an EQMS solution implemented in 2014. What is more interesting, however, and seems to be accelerating during the past decade, is that 40 percent of organizations reported currently being in the planning stages of an EQMS adoption.

The benefits of taking this platform approach to quality with EQMS are vast, and we’ll get into those later. But first, let’s talk about the mounting challenges that are driving the need for a next-generation solution in the first place.

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