ETQ Reliance

ETQ Reliance is a cloud-based quality management system (QMS) originally built by ETQ, a Farmingdale, New York company that began operating on March 4, 1992. Hexagon AB acquired ETQ in 2022, and in 2025-2026 Hexagon spun ETQ off, together with Bricsys and its Asset Lifecycle Intelligence and Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial divisions, into a new independent public company, Octave. The product is now marketed as Octave Reliance, though the ETQ Reliance name remains in wide use and etq.com now redirects to Octave's site; Octave describes the change as a rebrand with the underlying software, support and roadmap unchanged.

Reliance packages more than 40 ready-to-use applications covering document control, quality events, CAPA and nonconformance management, audit management, training, supplier and supply-chain quality, change management, risk, environmental health and safety, and life-sciences-specific compliance such as complaint handling and electronic medical device reporting. A codeless application designer lets customers configure workflows without custom development, and the platform includes built-in analytics dashboards, electronic signatures and audit trails, running on AWS cloud infrastructure.

Reliance connects to ERP, PLM, MES and other enterprise systems through REST APIs and prebuilt connectors; Octave's own Life Sciences Compliance documentation names SAP and Oracle specifically as supported ERP integrations. The vendor targets regulated and quality-critical industries: life sciences and pharmaceuticals, medical devices, aerospace and defense, food and beverage, chemicals and petrochemicals, healthcare, electronics and general manufacturing, citing customers including General Motors, Lumileds, Celestica, Rheem, Owen Mumford, Illumina, Novo Nordisk and Huvepharma in its case studies.