Dakota ProActivity EHS Software

Pros: The decision trees for understanding what is applicable in Auditor. Ability to add site specific permit condition questions to the audit.

Cons: The additional information needed to help those with little to no experience respond to emails sent from a task for their attention to properly respond.

Pros: sorting out relevant regulatory requirements of KOREA Chemical industry. (not necessary for us to look at hell a lot of laws..)

Cons: Not being able to use Korean language in the tool.. But it got solved by the DAKOTA IT team after a while

Pros: All in one for EHS. Compliance, Auditing, Incident Reporting and CAPA tracking from all sources, audits, incidents, and compliance calendar. And the fact that I do not have to set up anything on a local server.

Cons: Can be slow and glitchy due to the transformation between the old architecture, organization and the new Views architecture,.

Pros: This product is very user friendly. I like the fact that I get emails on what I need to enter for the month prior to the deadline.

Cons: I have no complaints about this program.

Pros: Adapt ability. We made some huge changes to the standard program using a design team. They took time to learn our process and understand our needs. Once up and running help was a speed dial button away. They never failed me.

Cons: Unfair question to ask me. We adapted the program dramatically. There were some hurdles we had to change what we HAD been doing to work with ProActiviy. Once we were both in alignment the program ran without a hitch or hiccup. Any dislikes I had wouldn't apply to the typical user. Set up can be intense, but once done you don't have to worry. It works.

Pros: The Dakota software works well for our organization. We have over 40 North America sites that we manage multiple EHS audits with over 100 users. Users find the software relatively easy to use.

Cons: The mobile feature could use some improvement.

Pros: Tracer and MOC It allows us to track changes and regulations and requirements

Cons: I like all aspects of this software. The integration into our system was easy.

Pros: The program auditor. It makes conducting Audits easy.

Cons: I wish there were easier ways to create reminders for a compliance calendar and assign responsible persons.

Pros: As the database grows, it is easy to find past incident reports and action items. Our company also uses this for PHA recommendation tracking, and it functions well in all of the capacities we use it for. Notifications of status updates is exceptional.

Cons: Configuring Tracer alerts to be informative and concise for end users can be a bit of a steep learning curve.

Pros: Customizable. Functionality is pretty intuitive.

Cons: Main issue was how long it took to load.

Pros: As the title stated we no longer have this software. This software is known for it regulatory audits and information but we did not use it for that. We used it for incident tracking and environmental task tracking. The system worked "OK' for this and the cost for what we used it for is why we stayed with them for so long. My sales person was great.

Cons: They seemed to have designed this system for companies that are very large and it is not easily customizable for other companies not set up with separate departments. When you need to change simple things it starts to get very expensive because you cannot do the changes yourself. Also the system is not inherently obvious on a user interface so it made it difficult on the back end. Biggest issue was customization and Nickle/dimeing. Also their quality control on changes was not great. Changes would be made and there were constantly issues that we found easily that they would have to go back and fix. Should never have made it our of their QC department.

Pros: We love that we can track audits and non-conformances together within the software. We also like the calendar option to set up monthly reminders for our sites.

Cons: The Organization View can take longer to load, but our company has many sub-folders set up.

Pros: Integration was easy and once you learn the system it is good.

Cons: Wish that it were easier to add or change things that were not caught while in the trial phases and pricing.

Pros: User friendly keep me up-to-date on task regulations and print out my reports easy

Cons: To slow to load pages, when try to open auditor needs improvement

Pros: The ability to record incidents, filter results and track corrective actions

Cons: The ability to enter items in the new views and the ability to create and adjust required fields

Pros: The linkage between regulatory content (Profiler) to the audit function (Auditor) and to action item tracking (Tracer) is seamlessly integrated and functions well.

Cons: There are times when the system slows down when working through regulatory applicability.

Pros: The audit questions can be customized and are frequently updated. The help desk is excellent.

Cons: Some of the features like moving an audit from auditor to tracer are not intuitive. That said, if I use the software frequently this is not a concern. The software does tell me when a word is misspelled, but offers no correction. There's got to be a better way.

Pros: The regulatory database is by far the best feature that the ProActivity Suite offers. As an Administrator, the new View allows me to provide specific views to enable the end user the ability to see the status of tasks that have been assigned to them. We have recently added the Management of Change module and this has enable the end user to manage the process on their own and alleviated the burden to the HS Department.

Cons: ProActivity need to incorporate better BI Tools so we can better analyze the data and report to upper management. Recently their has been a problem with cookies that results in an "Out of present range" error and this needs to be corrected. The error results in the inability to save updates and is particularly disturbing to the end user. As a system administrator it also creates more work having to show the user how to correct the problem, only to see it re-occur.

Pros: It has the ability to add several types of reports and audits. It has current regulations.

Cons: The system isn't customizable enough and if we want anything more custom there's a fee. A few examples would be the email alert that leadership receives is blank for BBS. The inability to build the organization tree out in profiler without paying a custom fee. Specifically it would list site then area. The current system only allows site and doesn't have additional drop down for location. That makes it difficult to target areas and set up alerts that only impact certain leaders. The auditing program seems great but not intuitive at all. It is very difficult to set up a template for a quarterly safety inspection that all sites can copy and use. There isn't enough training offered that can be focused on a small topic. It would be nice to have 15 minute quick trainings on 1 thing.

Pros: I like the calendar feature where I can see all dakota tracer items due for the month

Cons: Creating dakota tracer tasks.....theres got to be a simpler way to create them and assign them to individuals

Pros: Strong compliance monitoring Auditing Module Based Questions for tailoring

Cons: No 'trial' period Auditing function only Basic system "ProActivity Suite" features and benefits are not easily understood Requires a lot training to setup Requires a lot of time to setup No 'trial' period