Automate policy management to keep information up-to-date

USE CASE

Automating the review and approval process to manage the lifecycle of your policies and procedures can ensure that critical documents stay fresh and up-to-date. This helps reduce the chance of accidents, compliance violations, and other problems.

You can use a workflow to set expiration dates to notify you when it is time to review and update your documents to ensure that your policies and procedures are up-to-date, consistent, and secure.

What are the ways teams benefit?

Maintain consistency across your organization so that employees work from up-to-date versions of documents, reducing the risk of misunderstandings or outdated practices.

Protect sensitive information from unauthorized access or data breaches with security measures such as access restrictions and encryption available with document management.

Continuously improve company policies and procedures by conducting regular document reviews for relevance and practicality, tracking changes, and providing access to previous versions for internal and external audits.

Document lifecycles

Document management is not just a matter of convenience; it's a critical element of effective governance, risk management, and compliance. It ensures that employees have access to the correct information at the right time in a secure and organized manner, ultimately contributing to the success and longevity of a company.

With Comala Document Management, you can define document lifecycles that reflect the stages of your service and process designs.

You can define specific workflow milestones and permissions for each stage, ensuring only authorized users can access and modify the documents.

For example, you might have a proposal stage, a project plan stage, a development stage, and a testing stage. If publishing a policy or practice guide, you can prevent these from becoming stale by setting a time period for an “out-of-date” review.

To get started

install Comala Document Management by getting started on the Atlassian Marketplace or through “find new apps” in your Confluence instance
apply a workflow across all documents in a space or use workflows on a page-by-page basis
configure your workflow in the space settings Comala Document Management dashboard
edit and customize your workflow using the workflow builder visual editor for advanced authoring to create a more flexible and responsive workflow for your document process needs

Choose from the “out of the box” workflows, or create your own!

Content expiry workflow

Managing content expiration using workflow parameters

Content expiration can be set for any workflow state, not just your published content.

In the Content Expiry workflow, the Approved state expiry uses a workflow parameter to manage the expiry due date period.

We have a helpful way of managing this value & providing control over the expiration due date in a space by setting the value for workflow parameters included in a workflow.

Customer case studies

Many of our customers use Comala Document Management as part of their review and approval document management process. These include some customers who use our app and Comala Publishing to help attain FDA Title 21 CFR Part 11 in the life sciences industry.

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