Change Manager

Change management is often seen as a laborious and time-consuming task, especially when organisation's business and IT management teams are located at distant locations – where decisions don’t always get filtered down easily into the projects. However, if not addressed the right way, this process can often have disastrous consequences on a project – and at best, can lead to significant re-work and waste of resources – inevitably impacting the project budget.

Although Change management doesn't always have an obvious owner within the project, all business sponsors and IT programme managers need to be assured that change is being managed efficiently across the lifecycle and that there is a full and detailed audit trail of all changes.

Validata's Change Manager module, an integral part of the Validata SAS product, is one of the industry's most comprehensive solutions - especially when utilised across the whole project lifecycle. The solution has been designed to ensure that whether it's a software change or a business process change, you are in complete control and can easily manage the process – from inception of the change through to its delivery.

Validata SAS’s Change Manager module comprises of several key features as detailed below:

• Integrates both Business and IT aspects of the change management process within the project making sure that the transition from source to delivery is documented and auditable
• It tracks multiple versions of files and change management objects and their associated documents and stores them in a central repository with complete audit trail of all object transitions and dependencies
• The adaptive workflow and authorization capabilities allow users to control exactly the way changes are driven through their organization environment, control the sign-off process, manage multiple sign-offs, and create an approval hierarchy so that individuals don't become a single point of failure
• It allows users to define all the objects to be migrated, regardless of whether they’re database or file-based, and then provides a complete audit trail of all object migrations and dependencies
• The notification capabilities enable clear and consistent communication and distribution of changes across the selected group - in both IT or Business teams