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Change control

A second pair of eyes lives in email

A change to live reference data needs a second person to agree, and today that agreement is an email thread.

Regulated and compliance-driven organizations

These are illustrative scenarios showing how the products are used, not customer case studies.

The same sequence, twice

The same sequence today, and with SynaptaGrid.

Today

  1. Change made directly
  2. Approval sought by email
  3. Evidence across inboxes
  4. Timing depends on people

With SynaptaGrid

  1. Change submitted as a request
  2. Approver required to publish
  3. Timed for a quiet hour
  4. History keeps the prior value

The situation

The control is real and the evidence is not. Reconstructing who asked, who approved, and what the value was before means searching email and a shared drive — and the change itself went in whenever the person making it happened to be at their desk.

How it is approached

A record change can wait for an approver before it takes effect, or wait for a chosen time, or both. Requests move through pending and then published, rejected or canceled, and draft and published states are kept separately per record, so work in progress is never what the API serves. The record’s own history keeps what the value was before.

What changes

The second pair of eyes becomes part of making the change rather than a message about it. A change timed for a quiet hour no longer needs somebody awake to apply it.