CSA / CSV

Revolutionize Your Validation With CSA

Why CSA? Why Now?

For decades, traditional Computer System Validation (CSV) has focused more on generating documentation than delivering quality. The FDA’s Computer Software Assurance (CSA) guidance changes that.

40+

Clients shifted from
CSV to CSA

500+

Systems “assured”
using CSA

20K

Pages of
documentation reduced

10K+

System defects
found

80%

Average reduction rate in test script errors

YOUR CSA JOURNEY STARTS WITH CG

The CSA journey provides a clear and disciplined path from awareness to meaningful application, strengthening understanding and aligning teams with modern quality and technology practices. By progressing through these steps, organizations build the capability to apply CSA with consistency and establish a structured foundation for scaling it across critical systems.

FDA Industry CSA (FICSA) Team

AWS HC & LIFE SCIENCES
Senthil Gurumoorthi

BECTON DICKINSON
Roy Devine
Frank Meledandri Sr.

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC
Damien McPhillips
Ray Murphy

EDWARDS LIFE SCIENCES
Andy Lee

FDA
Daniel Walters

Fresenius Medical Care
Marc Koetter

GILEAD
Ken Shitatmoto

GSK
Louie Rayal
Stephen Cook

GETINGE
Francisco Vicenty

INSULET
Lou Poirier

JOHNSON AND JOHNSON
Reggie George

MDIC
Joseph Sapeiente

MEDTRONIC
Anake Kiatdilokrath
Joanne Goldberg

MICROSOFT
Frankie Bill

FICSA ADVISORY
Paul Sumner

PHILLIPS
Pat Baird

ROCHE
Thorsten Ruehl

SIEMENDS DIGITAL INDUSTRIES
Robin Blankenbaker

TAIHO ONCOLOGY INC.
Margie Hindley

PAST TEAM MEMBERS

Laura Clayton
Bill Hargrave
Joe Hens
Scott Moeller
Ron Schardong

John Murray (FDA)
Penny Sangkhavichith
Dana Guarnaccia
Michael Branch
Des Chesterfield

Stacey Allen
Sean Benedik
Bill D'Innocenzo
Curt Curtis
Jason Spiegler

Mike Wilt
Tina Koepke
April Francis
Jason Aurich
Prakash Patwardhan

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BENEFITS TO THE CSA FINAL GUIDANCE

Reducing the documentation burden, and prioritizing paitent safety and product quality

Smarter, Risk-Based Assurance

More efficient use of resources while still protecting quality and compliance.

Enabling Innovation and Agility

Faster adoption of new technologies like automation, AI/ML tools, and cloud platforms without being slowed down by outdated validation expectations.

Reducing Compliance Burden

Significant time and cost savings while maintaining FDA compliance.

Strengthen Quality and Patient Safety

Better alignment of regulatory expectations with product safety and performance outcomes

Supporting Digital Transformation

Provides regulatory clarity that encourages manufacturers to modernize operations and adopt digital technologies with confidence.

VALIDATION EXPERTISE ACROSS SYSTEMS

Whether you’re validating legacy software, modern SaaS platforms, or AI-powered applications, we’ve done it.

WE SUPPORT VENDOR SOFTWARE:

Quality and Lifecycle Management

We support systems that ensure compliance and governance across the product lifecycle, including QMS (Veeva, Trackwise), ALM (Polarion), PLM (Siemens, Dassault), and LMS (Cornerstone, ComplianceWire).

Manufacturing and Enterprise Systems

We validate core platforms for production and operations, including ERP (SAP, Oracle), MES (Siemens, Critical), labeling (Bartender, Nicelabel), serialization (Tracelink, Covectra), CRM (Salesforce), and automation (Siemens, Rockwell).

Laboratory Systems

We bring expertise in LIMS (Labware, Starlims), lab interfaces, and analytics (Power BI, R Studio, SAS). Our teams also validate Excel and other desktop or web-based tools in regulated environments.

Digital and Low Code

We validate low-code and digital platforms such as Mendix, Microsoft, and Appian to ensure compliance, scalability, and flexibility for modern applications and custom solutions.

START YOUR CSA JOURNEY TODAY

CONNECT WITH A CSA EXPERT TO LEARN CSA AND BEYOND

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