What happened to Q-Pulse
- Ideagen's Q-Pulse page now reads "Now known as Ideagen Quality Management" and "Same trusted solution, new name". Ideagen says the name changed to reflect its wider suite for regulated industries.
- Ideagen Quality Management covers document control, CAPA, audits, inspections, training and competency, supplier quality and regulatory intelligence. Its page names ISO 9001, ISO 13485, AS9100 and other standards, and customers in healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing and food.
- For aviation safety, Ideagen sells a separate product, Ideagen Aviation Safety (its customer stories still call it Coruson): safety reporting, hazard identification and risk assessment with bowtie and FRAT, SMS documentation and audit management. Its FAQ names ICAO Annex 19, EASA Part-ORO and FAA SMS.
- Ideagen gives 30 days to go live for both, offers a booked demo and a self-guided demo, and says over 500 airports, airlines, MROs and aviation authorities work with it. We found no public price list.
Sources: Ideagen, Q-Pulse now known as Ideagen Quality Management, Ideagen Quality Management, Ideagen Aviation Safety, Ideagen, aviation. Read 31 October 2026.
Side by side
| Ideagen Quality Management (ex Q-Pulse) | Folvan | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Quality management across regulated industries; aviation safety is a separate Ideagen product | Non-complex operators (AOC, SPO, NCC), ATOs and DTOs, run by a small team |
| Go-live | 30 days (vendor's figure) | Days: we import your findings register and set up the checklists for your type of organisation with you |
| Price | No public price list found; demo on request | One price per organisation, no per-user fees. Free 30-day pilot |
| Audits and compliance monitoring | Audit management with checklists; standards built into the workflows, per its page | Audit programme and checklists seeded from GM3 ORO.GEN.200(a)(6), ORA.GEN.200 and DTO.GEN.270 |
| Findings and corrective action | CAPA management with root cause analysis | Findings with the 3-month level 2 limit checked against ARO.GEN.350, root cause, actions with owners, verification and an effectiveness check |
| Occurrence reporting | In Ideagen Aviation Safety, not in the quality product | Crew report from a phone, confidential and anonymous reports, the 72-hour, 30-day and 3-month clocks, per-country authority profiles |
| E5X file | Not mentioned on the pages we read | E5X export checked against the official ECCAIRS 5.1.0.0 schema. Some authorities validate a new system's files first; we do that round with you |
| Documents | Document control | Document register with revisions, review dates and read-and-understood per revision. The documents themselves stay where they are: no file storage yet |
| Training, suppliers, risk register | Training and competency, supplier quality; risk assessment in Ideagen Aviation Safety | Not yet (see below) |
When staying makes sense
- Q-Pulse runs your whole quality system, including suppliers, training records and inspections, and it works.
- You are a Part-145 or production organisation, or part of a group that runs Ideagen across many sites. Folvan has no checklists for maintenance or production organisations.
- You already use, or plan to use, Ideagen Aviation Safety for a full SMS with hazard registers and bowtie analysis.
When Folvan fits better
- One or two people run compliance and safety alongside another job, at an operator, ATO or DTO.
- You want compliance monitoring, findings and occurrence reporting in one place, with the EASA deadlines worked out for you, instead of a general quality system you configure yourself.
- You need ECCAIRS 2 and E5X handled for your country without buying a second product.
- You want one price per organisation, no per-user fees for crew who only file reports, and to be live in days.
What Folvan does not do yet
No training records, no supplier management, no hazard log or risk register, no file storage (evidence and controlled copies are a note or a link), no Part-IS module, no offline app, no single sign-on and no links to other systems yet. For a hazard log in the meantime, use the free hazard log and risk register template. If any of these are must-haves today, say so and we will tell you honestly whether to wait or stay.
How switching works
- Export your findings, audits, occurrences and document list as CSV or Excel. Your data is yours; ask your vendor if the export is not obvious.
- We import the findings register and the document list, and set up your audit programme for your type of organisation.
- Run both side by side during the 30-day pilot. Nothing is switched off until you decide.
- Check your contract's notice period before you cancel anything.
Q-Pulse, Coruson and Ideagen are trademarks of their owner. Folvan is not affiliated with Ideagen. Facts above are from Ideagen's public pages as read on 31 October 2026; tell us at hello@folvan.com if anything has changed and we will correct it.