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Ideagen ehs
Ideagen EHS, formerly ProcessMAP, is an enterprise EHS platform that places incident management, risk assessment, audit and inspection, environmental monitoring, chemical lifecycle governance and contractor compliance on a single data layer for multi-site regulated operators. Its distinguishing position is governance breadth rather than EHS depth: the same vendor sells quality management, document control and audit into the same estate, holding Verdantix Leader placements across all three categories. Ideagen Mazlan, the embedded agentic AI, drafts investigations and maps regulatory change with mandatory human approval. Acquired by Ideagen in October 2022 and extended through ten acquisitions since.
SmartQHSE
SmartQHSE is a QHSE management platform from Dubai, founded in 2024, that brings quality, health, safety and environmental processes into one tool: incidents, inspections and audits, risk assessment, permit to work, training, contractor management, CAPA, document management and environmental compliance, with offline mobile apps. Its AI copilot, ARIA, drafts risk assessments, job safety analyses, method statements and HSE plans and checks documents for compliance gaps, billed in AI credits. Prices are published: a free plan for one user, then $19 or $59 per user per month.
Ideagen ehs
SmartQHSE
Sustainability Impact
12/20
13/20
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Features & Capabilities
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16/20
Value for Money
12/20
16/20
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Ease of Use
12/20
16/20
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Trust & Maturity
18/20
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12/20
Pricing
enterprise
freemium
Year founded
2000
2024
Best for
Multi-site regulated organizations with an established EHS governance structure that need one auditable record across every site — particularly those already running, or considering, Ideagen quality and compliance products so that safety and quality governance share a single spine and a single CAPA process.
Small and mid-sized QHSE teams in construction, oil and gas, manufacturing and infrastructure — especially in the Gulf — that run ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 together and want quality and HSE in one tool, a published price and AI drafting of risk assessments and method statements.
Categories
EHSEHS Compliance
EHSEHS Compliance
Carbon Scopes
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Scope 1 (Direct emissions)Scope 2 (Indirect energy)
Key features
- One Data Layer Across Six EHS Domains — Governance Breadth, Not Feature Count Incident management, risk assessment, audit and inspection, environmental monitoring, chemical lifecycle and contractor compliance sit on one data layer, so an audit finding, the corrective action it generated and the regulatory obligation it satisfies can be one record. A question spanning eleven sites, filtered by regulatory driver, should then return a query result rather than an export and days of reconciliation. The core descends from ProcessMAP and covers OSHA recordkeeping and RIDDOR reporting alongside ISO 45001 and ISO 14001. The demonstration test: ask for a cross-site overdue CAPA report filtered by regulatory obligation, built live. If it needs a BI export, the layer is less unified than the diagram suggests.
- Ideagen Mazlan — Agentic AI With Human Sign-Off Mazlan, launched on 2 December 2025, drafts root cause investigations, prepares audit evidence, coordinates corrective actions and flags recurring issues across incidents, audits and compliance records. In incident management, Ideagen says it compares reported conditions with the customer's risk register, observation templates and incident history; Verdantix describes it classifying injuries, assessing whether an event must be reported and drafting reports with citations. Ideagen says customers set approval thresholds and critical decisions require sign-off, and its help documentation says customer data stays in the chosen region and is never used to train models. Verdantix assessed it after launch in process safety (July 2026) and EHS (September 2026). No production-adoption data is published.
- A Portfolio Assembled at Speed — Ten Acquisitions in Eighteen Months Between February 2025 and July 2026 Ideagen added Beakon (contractors), ConvergePoint (policy), SafeFood 360 and Authenticate (food safety), WorkSafe Guardian (lone workers), Reactec (wearables for vibration, noise, dust and proximity), Envirosuite (air, water, noise, odour and vibration monitoring), Casper (airport noise), SafetyStratus (chemical, radiation and biosafety) and Work Wallet (mobile-first EHS for frontline teams). Verdantix's 2026 report says this acquisitive strategy "has produced a broad, intuitive solution with advanced AI capabilities." Read as an integration question, it is several engineering lineages joined in eighteen months: ask which modules share the incident data layer today, and get the answer in the contract.
- Quality, Health, Safety and Environment in One Tool SmartQHSE manages the four QHSE disciplines in one platform instead of leaving quality to a separate system. Its listings cover quality control, corrective and preventive action, document and audit management for quality; incidents, inspections, risk assessment, permit to work, training, contractor management, occupational health, OSHA recordkeeping and emergency response planning for health and safety; and environmental compliance, waste, hazardous materials and sustainability management for the environment. Root cause analysis, workflows, the audit trail and dashboards are shared, so a quality non-conformance and a safety near miss with the same cause can be traced to one corrective action.
- ARIA — AI Drafting Billed in Credits ARIA drafts risk assessments, job safety analyses, method statements, HSE plans and toolbox talks, analyses uploaded HSE documents for compliance gaps, supports root cause analysis, generates corrective actions, scores hazards in inspections and audits and analyses site photos. It is metered in credits: an AI risk assessment uses 12, an HSE plan 30 and a toolbox talk 6, with extra credits at $0.35. Starter includes 150 credits a month and Plus 600. The vendor presents ARIA's answers as grounded in a regulatory knowledge base with citations; no accuracy testing has been published.
- Published Pricing, Offline Mobile Apps and Ten Integrations SmartQHSE publishes its prices: a free plan for one user and one project, Starter at $19 per user per month for up to 30 users and Plus at $59 for up to 150, with a 14-day trial that needs no credit card. Web, Android and iOS apps work offline in the field. Ten integrations are listed — Procore, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Workspace, Zapier, BambooHR, Workday HCM, Microsoft Power BI, Okta and Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP — plus an API. Support includes email, chat, phone and a 24/7 live representative.
Pros
- Verdantix Leader in EHS in 2025 and 2026. The 2026 report places Ideagen among 12 Leaders out of 23 providers, with the highest scores of any vendor for document management (2.7/3.0) and quality management (2.6/3.0), according to Ideagen.
- One record across six EHS domains. Incident, risk, audit, environmental, chemical and contractor data sit on one layer, so cross-site questions return a query rather than a reconciliation project.
- One governance spine for safety and quality. Ideagen also sells quality management, document control and audit, and is a Verdantix Leader in quality management (2025) and process safety (2026), so a CAPA that touches both has one owner.
- Quality and HSE in one tool. Quality control, CAPA and document management sit next to incidents, inspections, permits and environmental compliance, so ISO triple-certified teams do not run quality in a separate system.
- Published, low entry prices. A free plan for one user, Starter at $19 and Plus at $59 per user per month, and a 14-day trial without a credit card make the platform easy to test before any procurement process.
- AI where QHSE teams spend their time. ARIA drafts risk assessments, job safety analyses, method statements and HSE plans; the one public review reports a half-day task cut to about 20 minutes.
Cons
- Integration risk from fast acquisition. Ten acquisitions in eighteen months mean several engineering lineages; ask in writing which modules share the data layer today and which are on a roadmap.
- Opaque pricing. There is no published price or tier and no free version. Ideagen offers demos and a self-guided tour; Capterra lists a free trial, which you should confirm.
- The mobile gap is still open. Reviewers have raised limits on closing investigations in the field, and Work Wallet, bought in July 2026 to address mobile, still runs under its own brand.
- Young, with little evidence. SmartQHSE was founded in 2024, has one public review on Capterra, none on G2, and no analyst coverage we could find; ask for references in your sector and region.
- AI claims are untested in public. The vendor markets ARIA's cited answers as free of hallucinations, but no accuracy testing is published; check citations and have a competent person approve every AI draft.
- No enterprise plan listed. Plus stops at 150 users; larger organizations need to ask how pricing, service levels and support change.
