MasterControl Quality Excellence vs. Arena PLM and QMS

MasterControl Quality Excellence

Arena PLM and QMS

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
MasterControl Quality Excellence	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	The MasterControl Quality Excellence suite bundles a number of products supporting work quality and compliance including training and exams, incidents and corrective actions (CA), documents and change, and other modules.	$25,000 per year
Arena PLM and QMS	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	Arena by PTC is a cloud-based PLM and QMS platform. Arena helps product companies that rely on distributed teams and global supply chains to develop products, ensure regulatory compliance, and respond to customer demands.	N/A

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MasterControl Quality Excellence

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Pricing Offerings
MasterControl Quality Excellence	Arena PLM and QMS
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Arena's cloud-based PLM and QMS solutions include role-based subscriptions to meet diverse team needs. Their fixed-fee QuickStart™ implementations supports rapid deployment.

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Key User Insights
	MasterControl Quality Excellence	Arena PLM and QMS
Considered Both Products	MasterControl Verified User Chose MasterControl Quality Excellence Compared to Arena PLM and QMS, MasterControl Quality Excellence offers deeper functionality specifically tailored for compliance-heavy industries like life sciences, where regulatory requirements such as FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and ISO standards are critical. While Arena provides a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MasterControl Quality Excellence We are still evaluating and the outcome will be based on a list of user requirements documented for various need across our organization. Incentivized Helpful?	Arena by PTC Verified User Chose Arena PLM and QMS Arena PLM and QMS is significantly better than Mastercontrol in terms of usability. It is far more user friendly and less confusing. Arena PLM and QMS and Agile are about the same for me in terms of general user friendliness. Incentivized Helpful? Lujean Burak Director of Quality in Quality Assurance at MOBILion Systems (Biotechnology, 51-200 employees) Chose Arena PLM and QMS We selected Arena because one of our suppliers uses it. I would say you are equal. Incentivized Helpful? Chad Miller Senior Quality Assurance Engineer in Quality Assurance at Soma Logic (Medical Device, 201-500 employees) Chose Arena PLM and QMS Arena is significantly less clunky that its competitors. Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	MasterControl Quality Excellence	Arena PLM and QMS
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (93 ratings)	9.2 (214 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (4 ratings)	9.0 (5 ratings)
Usability	7.5 (88 ratings)	7.1 (16 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	1.0 (2 ratings)	9.1 (16 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.3 (2 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	8.7 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

MasterControl Quality Excellence vs. Arena PLM and QMS

MasterControl Quality Excellence

Arena PLM and QMS

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