Introducing
Tulip Lifecycle Manager (TLM)
Full lifecycle management of Tulip content for GxP use, unifying apps, tables and other components, automating validation, and streamlining traceability – All built on Tulip and ready for use at scale.
Streamlining Lifecycle Management & Validation for Tulip Solutions
Managing the lifecycle of Tulip solutions — from ideation to retirement — can be complex, especially for companies struggling with validation processes. To simplify this, we created the Tulip Lifecycle Manager (TLM), a risk–based approach tailor made for the modern agility of Tulip and the progressive validation ideas promoted by The US FDA, EMA, and GAMP. It’s a Tulip App–suite solution, providing a centralised lifecycle manager within Tulip itself, and adds the value of standardised governance management, digital validation, risk based automated workflows, automated traceability, template validation content, and much more.
What’s more, it’s proven. TLM is in active use in over 15 countries and counting.
What is the Value?
Clear Lifecycle Management
Provides a structured approach to managing Tulip solutions from ideas to retirement.
Enterprise ready
Supports single or multi-site deployments for global organizations, provides visibility and dashboards across all Tulip solutions.
Reduces efforts
Automates workflows, documentation, and makes all information instantly available and searchable.
Simplified Validation
Reduces the complexity of validation.
Quality and Governance
Supports regulatory and business requirements through structured workflows and approvals.
What is TLM?
TLM provides a structured approach that enables users to oversee the entire lifecycle of a Tulip solution. This includes proposing use case ideas to build on Tulip, governance management tools, GxP assessment, lifecycle & validation documentation, and operational management (including change control and solution retirement).
Why Use TLM?
All Tulip customers face challenges as they scale governing and keeping track of development progress, having inventory of solutions and Tulip components, managing solution roll-outs, etc. In regulated industries strict validation requirements must also be met and often become a blocker to scaling. TLM offers a streamlined risk-based process that helps standardize and control solution lifecycles to simplify validation and compliance efforts, whilst ensuring high quality in your Tulip Apps.
Key Features of TLM
01
TLM Navigation App
- Intuitive interface to trigger the various TLM Apps and workflows.
- Access inventory list of all Tulip Solution’s with summary information and their statuses.
- Dashboards analytics of solutions and their lifecycles.
02
Solution Proposal App
- Enables users to create a Tulip solution proposal within TLM.
- Capture the initial description and scope.
- Governance workflows for review/approval to proceed.
- Resource assignments for Development, Business, and Quality stakeholders.
- Assess whether the solution is intended for GxP or Non-GxP use, and high-level assessment helping to determine the validation activities required.
03
Solution Requirement App
- Automated workflows suitable for GxP or Non-GxP solutions.
- Key validation artifacts such as business process and requirements capture, asset registration, risk assessment, design specifications, test specification/plan drafting.
- Automated scalable validation workflows based on risk and complexity to ensure the right amount of validation is performed – standardizing validation and preventing validation effort being overly high or low.
- Define technical and procedural risk controls with automated risk traceability.
- Verifying all prerequisites go-live activities are complete and go-live control.
04
Solution Migration Verification App
- Managed workflows to handle migrating solutions between Dev/Test/Prod environments.
- Define and record migration steps and verification.
05
Test Execution App
- Capture test execution records traceable to assets and executions within Tulip.
- Capture test execution evidence (screenshots).
- Defect management.
- Test completion confirmation.
06
Review & Approval app
- Enables review and approval workflows for all key activities and steps across TLM apps e.g. solution proposal, requirements, risks, testing, go-live, changes, and retirement.
07
Operation management
- Track and manage Periodic Review.
08
Change & retirement request app
- Provides a structured process to capture change or retirement proposals
- Change management workflows
- Decommissioning Tulip solutions with required documentation and archival guidance
Looking for the full TLM experience - with governance apps, risk-based testing, automated traceability, operational management, and expert support?
TLM is simplifying lifecycle management and validation for teams worldwide — and it can do the same for you.
Whether you're starting or scaling, Factorytalk is here to help. Contact us today to discuss getting the full TLM.
Want a lighter start?
Try TLM Lite – download a foundational version now from the Tulip Library.
