The life sciences industry is redefining what quality means in the digital era. No longer confined to siloed workflows or paper-era processes, modern quality management demands real-time insights, cross-functional alignment, and seamless integration across systems.
That’s why more organizations are choosing Generis CARA, a next-generation platform built not only to modernize quality operations, but to align them with broader regulatory, clinical, and enterprise goals. But reaching that vision takes more than selecting the right platform: it requires executing a migration strategy that ensures business continuity, compliance, and long-term value from effective data usability.
This is where fme delivers.
Why Generis CARA is Gaining Momentum
Generis CARA is rapidly becoming the platform of choice for forward-looking life sciences organizations that need more than just incremental improvements to their quality systems. What makes CARA stand out is its metadata-driven architecture, which enables intelligent workflows, dynamic configurations, and true cross-functional collaboration.
CARA brings quality, regulatory, safety, and clinical processes together in a truly single, harmonized environment, eliminating the inefficiencies of disconnected systems that require manual connectivity and redundant data. The platform’s modern UX, personalized dashboards, and responsive design enhance adoption and usability, while deployment flexibility (including public cloud, private cloud, or on-premise) supports a wide range of IT and compliance strategies.
With built-in interoperability and open APIs, CARA integrates naturally with ERP, LIMS, PLM, and other enterprise systems, helping quality become a connected, agile function across the business. Those who know me, know this is a major sticking point for me – stop duplicating your master data in your QMS when you can integrate with your ERP, please!
Proven Experience with Generis CARA Migrations
fme doesn’t just understand quality systems: we understand how to move them. We are actively supporting some of the world’s most complex and highly regulated organizations as they migrate to Generis CARA today. That firsthand experience gives us a deep understanding of the platform’s architecture, its data model, and the transformation steps required to get from legacy to next-gen, all without compromising compliance.
We combine that expertise with migration-center®, our purpose-built migration platform that enables large-scale data and document migrations with precision and traceability. From structured metadata to unstructured legacy documents, we help organizations classify, map, transform, and verify every record so what arrives in CARA is not only compliant, but clean, usable, and aligned with your business goals.
Our work isn’t theoretical. It’s happening now and delivering measurable value to companies modernizing their global landscapes with CARA.
What fme Brings to the Table
Making the move to a new QMS platform is a high-stakes endeavor. fme brings the tools, expertise, and industry knowledge to ensure that the migration isn’t just successful, it’s designed in line with your organization’s strategic goals. That means not only preserving compliance and continuity, but also structuring your data to support future innovation.
Whether you’re building a foundation for AI-driven quality insights, enabling advanced trend analysis, or preparing for greater integration across enterprise systems, we ensure your migration delivers usable, intelligent, and value-rich data that is ready to power what’s next. Here’s what you can count on fme for:
- End-to-end CARA migration services, from legacy system analysis with our Migration Readiness Evaluation and Data Quality Assessment offerings to migration execution to legacy system decommissioning and archiving
- Accelerated execution through reusable templates, automation frameworks, and proven methodologies from hands-on migrations into CARA
- Change-aware transformation, built to preserve compliance history and improve future usability
We don’t just move data, we move the right data, in the right format, with the right controls to support your next-generation quality operations.
The Right Platform. The Right Partner.
Generis CARA is changing the way quality systems work. fme ensures you get there the right way: confidently, compliantly, and with a migration strategy designed to deliver value from day one.
Let’s talk about your path to Generis CARA. Download the datasheet below to learn more about fme’s capability with the Generis CARA platform, and request a personalized discovery discussion.