Q-Hub
£245/month
Essentials — up to 3 full and 50 basic users
- Implementation included — no setup fee
- Live in about four weeks
- 30-day trial, no card
Comparison
Q-Hub vs QPulse
Q-Pulse is now marketed as Ideagen Quality Management, and it is a capable enterprise quality platform — document control, audit, risk, training and supplier quality are all there. On capability there is little between us. The difference is what you can find out before you speak to a salesperson.
Compliance Report · Q1 2026Export PDF
Compliance 94% +3.2
Open NCRs 12 -5
On-time close 88% +6.1
Overdue 3 -2
Compliance trend
Compliance by site
The short answer
Read this and you may not need the rest of the page.
Choose Ideagen if…
You need regulatory intelligence feeds, software validation and assurance, or food safety and supply chain modules. You are a large enterprise with a procurement process that expects a bespoke quote.
Choose Q-Hub if…
You want the price on the website, implementation included rather than quoted, and to be live in about four weeks rather than a quarter.
Choose neither if…
Your compliance is mostly information security. Both of us are quality-led; an ISMS platform will fit you better.
At a glance
Every row is checkable. The Ideagen column reflects what they publish on their own quality solutions page. Source: ideagen.com/solutions/quality, read 21 September 2026.
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| Feature | Ideagen Quality Management (Q-Pulse) | Q-Hub |
|---|---|---|
| What each covers | ||
Built for EvidenceTheir quality page names document control, audit intelligence, enterprise risk management, training management and supplier quality management. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Enterprise quality and compliance | Quality, health, safety and environment for mid-market sites |
Document control EvidenceTheir page names "Document control", "Document review" and "Document collaboration". Source · checked 2026-09-21 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audit management | ✓ | ✓ |
CAPA / non-conformance EvidenceTheir page names "CAPA processes", "CAPA workflows" and "Non-conformance management". Source · checked 2026-09-21 | ✓ | ✓ |
Training management EvidenceTheir page names "Training management" and "Workplace training". Source · checked 2026-09-21 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Supplier management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Risk management | ✓ | ✓ |
ISO 9001 / 45001 / 14001 named EvidenceTheir quality solutions page names quality, health and safety and environmental management, but does not name ISO 9001, ISO 45001 or ISO 14001. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not named on their quality page | All three named |
| Commercials | ||
Published pricing EvidenceNo figures or pricing language appear anywhere on their quality solutions page. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not published | Yes — from £85/month |
Implementation EvidenceTheir quality solutions page makes no statement about implementation or setup fees. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not stated | Included with every subscription |
Based in EvidenceIdeagen is a UK-headquartered software group. Both vendors are UK-based, so neither wins this row. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | UK (Nottingham) | UK (Caldicot, Wales) |
| Where they go further | ||
Regulatory intelligence EvidenceTheir page names "Regulatory intelligence". Q-Hub does not offer a regulatory intelligence feed. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Yes — named capability | No — not offered |
Software validation and assurance EvidenceTheir page names "Software validation and assurance". Q-Hub does not claim formal computer-system validation. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Yes — named capability | No — not offered |
Food safety and supply chain EvidenceTheir page names "Food safety management" and "Food supply chain management". Q-Hub does not offer these as modules. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Yes — named modules | No — not offered as modules |
Competitor pricing as published by each vendor. Figures marked ≈ are converted from the currency they were published in at today’s rate, for comparison only.
Competitor details read from their own published materials, last checked 2026-09-21.
Where Q-Hub is the better choice
Each one checkable against their own published material.
£85 a month, published
You can see the price before you speak to anyone
- Ideagen Quality Management (Q-Pulse)
- Not published
- Q-Hub
- Yes — from £85/month
No pricing figures appear anywhere on Ideagen’s quality solutions page. Q-Hub publishes £85, £245 and £530 a month. Neither approach is wrong, but only one lets you build a business case on a Tuesday afternoon.
Implementation is included, not quoted
- Ideagen Quality Management (Q-Pulse)
- Not stated
- Q-Hub
- Included with every subscription
Their quality page makes no statement about implementation or setup fees. Q-Hub includes discovery, configuration, data migration and role-based training with every subscription, with no separate professional-services charge.
The three ISO standards, named and covered
- Ideagen Quality Management (Q-Pulse)
- Not named on their quality page
- Q-Hub
- All three named
Their quality page names quality, health and safety and environmental management, but does not name ISO 9001, ISO 45001 or ISO 14001. Q-Hub is built around all three, with one audit programme and one CAPA register across them.
ISO 9001, 45001 and 14001 in one programme
Their quality page does not name the three standards. This is what naming them means in practice — one audit schedule covering all three, so a finding closes once rather than being re-entered per standard.
ISO 9001 Internal Audit · Site A 68% JS
Audit checklist
4.2 Document control procedures reviewed Conform
5.1 Management responsibility evidenced Conform
6.1 Resource management adequate Conform
7.1 Product realisation processes verified Nonconformity
8.2 Monitoring & measurement calibrated Observation
Where Ideagen Quality Management is the better choice
Cases where we would tell you to choose them, because a comparison page that never concedes is not worth reading.
You need regulatory intelligence
- Ideagen Quality Management (Q-Pulse)
- Yes — named capability
- Q-Hub
- No — not offered
Their page names Regulatory intelligence as a capability. Q-Hub does not offer a regulatory feed; you track obligations yourself.
You need validated software
- Ideagen Quality Management (Q-Pulse)
- Yes — named capability
- Q-Hub
- No — not offered
Their page names Software validation and assurance. Q-Hub does not claim formal computer-system validation, and would rather say so here than in week three of an implementation.
You are in food
- Ideagen Quality Management (Q-Pulse)
- Yes — named modules
- Q-Hub
- No — not offered as modules
Their page names Food safety management and Food supply chain management as modules. Q-Hub does not offer either.
What you would actually pay
Set your team size and see the Q-Hub price. Ideagen Quality Management (Q-Pulse) does not publish figures, so nothing on their side is estimated — their column quotes their own pricing page.
Ideagen Quality Management (Q-Pulse)
Not published
Published pricing is not available, so the figure depends on a quote.
- Implementation: Not stated
Q-Hub figures are our published prices. Ideagen Quality Management (Q-Pulse) does not publish prices, so nothing is estimated on their side — their column quotes their own pricing page, read 2026-09-21.
Feature deep-dive
Ideagen Quality Management, still known to most people as Q-Pulse, is an enterprise quality and compliance platform and a UK one — Nottingham to our Caldicot. It is the incumbent in a lot of quality departments for good reason.
It goes further than Q-Hub on regulatory intelligence, software validation and assurance, and food safety and supply chain. All three are named capabilities that we do not offer at all. For a regulated manufacturer who needs them, that settles it.
What their quality page does not name is ISO 9001, 45001 and 14001. Q-Hub names all three, publishes its price, and includes implementation in the subscription rather than scoping it separately. It is built for mid-market sites rather than enterprise rollouts, which is a narrower job done with less overhead.
- ISO 9001, 45001 and 14001 all named and supported
- Published pricing from £85/month
- Implementation included with every subscription
- Built for mid-market sites, not enterprise rollouts
NCR Corrective Action · workflowLive
Auto-escalation · overdue > 24h → Head of QHSE
Switching from Ideagen Quality Management
What a move actually involves.
What comes across
Documents, training records, audit history, CAPA records and supplier data, with structures and permissions mapped rather than flattened.
Run both for a while
Two to four weeks in parallel is normal before the old system is switched off.
Configured to your processes
Q-Hub is configured to match your existing document numbering, workflows and approval routes rather than the other way round.
What we cannot promise
We have not migrated an Ideagen tenant end to end. Bring your export format to the call and we will tell you what we know and what we would need to test.
Trusted by compliance teams worldwide
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“Qhub provides a visible, intuitive way to manage data and workflows, revolutionising our approach to operations”
Fowlers of Bristol (Engineers) Ltd
Operations director
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“Qhub helps us to... proactively use our QMS... and increase efficiency”
Anglia Cathodic Protection Services
Business manager
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“Really made a difference with providing compliance during audits – both regulatory, customer, and internal.”
Auxitrol Weston
Quality manager
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“QHub has supported us in achieving a higher compliance rate.”
BMC Analysis
Technical Manager/ Quality Manage
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“We can't believe how fast we were able to get it up and running.”
Cawood Group
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“Managing NCRs are now so much easier”
Enviromesh
Quality manager
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“Where was this 2 years ago... we're blown away”
Jaltek
Compliance manager for Jaltek
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“Qhub has improved our safety management system no end, making it very efficient”
Rocal Endurance Doors
Compliance manager
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“We use it for as much as possible.”
Scottish Leather Group
Compliance manager
Integrations
Connects with the tools you already use
Q-Hub connects to your existing tools via REST API, webhooks and SSO, with bespoke connectors on request. More integrations coming soon.
Microsoft 365
SharePoint
Teams
Slack
Google Workspace
Power BI
Jira
SAP
Salesforce
Enterprise Security
Your data is safe with us
Each certification and commitment, with the detail behind it.
ISO 27001 Independently audited information security management, certified to ISO/IEC 27001.
Cyber Essentials UK Government-backed certification against the most common cyber attacks.
GDPR Compliant Full compliance with UK & EU data protection law.
99.9% Uptime SLA Guaranteed platform availability, backed by our SLA.
UK Data Centres All customer data hosted in ISO 27001-certified UK data centres.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
On the core quality system — document control, audits, CAPA, training, risk, suppliers — the two are directly comparable, and their page names all of it. Ideagen adds regulatory intelligence, validation services and food modules that we do not have. What Q-Hub adds is a published price and a four-week implementation.
Ideagen has moved the product under its own name. Their quality solutions page uses "Ideagen Quality Management" throughout; "Q-Pulse" now appears only inside a customer quote. Same product lineage, new name.
They do not publish figures, so we cannot tell you and will not guess. Q-Hub publishes £85, £245 and £530 a month with implementation included.
Yes, alongside ISO 9001, in one system. Ideagen’s quality page names health and safety and environmental management but does not name the standards themselves.
Four weeks is standard, including data migration and role-based training. Larger or more complex rollouts run six to eight.
Yes. Ideagen is headquartered in Nottingham, Q-Hub in Caldicot, Wales. Neither of us wins that row, and the comparison table says so.
Yes — the three standards share a harmonised ten-clause structure, which is why BSI, the UK national standards body, runs them as a single integrated management system: “an integrated management system for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001”. Q-Hub runs all three as one audit programme, so a finding closes once against whichever standard it belongs to instead of being re-entered somewhere else. Ideagen’s quality page does not name the three standards, though that is a statement about their website rather than their capability — worth asking them directly.
Mid-market QHSE, without the enterprise overhead
All three ISO standards named, the price published, implementation included. See it against your own processes in 30 minutes.
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