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Audit trails and change control in a regulated Intelex environment

Four things an auditor asks a regulated Intelex environment to produce, mapped against what the platform delivers. Change history and access proof come from the platform, while configuration approval and retention do not.Four things an auditor asks a regulated Intelex environment to produce, mapped against what the platform delivers. Change history and access proof come from the platform, while configuration approval and retention do not.

"This corrective action was closed on 14 March. Who changed the due date, and when?" Whether you can answer an auditor asking that in a regulated environment was decided months earlier, by a purchasing decision and a checkbox, and neither was framed as a compliance decision when it was made.

The Intelex audit trail is a purchased feature and is not on by default. Its granularity is per object, not per field: you audit the whole object or nothing. If nobody bought it, or nobody enabled it on that object before the change happened, the change history does not exist and cannot be recovered later.

What does the Intelex audit trail record?

Once purchased and enabled on an object, each entry captures:

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