Trusted partner in healthcare service management.

Developed with leading healthcare organizations, Octopus is grounded in the realities and constraints of day-to-day operations. Coordinate teams, standardize workflows, and improve visibility. Less friction. More control.

Octopus ITSM CMMS — healthcare software for CISSS and CIUSSS
Over 80% of Quebec healthcare facilities and 19 of 22 CISSS/CIUSSS organizations rely on our solutions.
100+
Healthcare organizations in Quebec
8 000
Active users in the network
140
Departments
2 000 000
Annual requests
Common Challenges

Unique challenges of the healthcare network

Complex constraints that demand more control and more visibility. We know them well — we've been working with the network for over twenty years.

No visibility from site to site

Across 10, 20, or 30 facilities, every site manages requests its own way — no standardization, no cross-site view. IT service steers blind, without the reliable data needed to shift from reactive mode to proactive.

Requests that fall between departments

Dozens of internal teams, no shared portal, no standardized process. Duplicates pile up, and critical incidents never reach the right team at the right moment.

Inability to guarantee compliance and traceability

Information lives scattered across Excel, paper, and email threads. Producing an audit report for MSSS becomes a project in itself — and Loi 25 compliance stays out of reach.

Web Portal

A single point of entry for all your healthcare facilities

Octopus centralizes internal service management in one unified solution, tailored to each facility. Your teams keep a network-wide view with the local context intact. Fewer silos, faster decisions, and stronger continuity of care.

Unified multi-site dashboard

Track the status of every request in real time, across every location. One view for your entire IT team.

Routage automatisé des tickets Octopus

Consolidated cross-site reporting

Compare workload, response times, and performance between facilities in a few clicks. No more manually assembled Excel reports before every leadership meeting.

Automatic routing by location

Every request goes straight to the right team based on the site or department. No manual triage.

Priorisation intelligente des demandes Octopus

Custom user portal for each facility

Every site keeps its own processes while staying part of centralized management. Local experience, network-wide visibility.

Shared history across teams

Documentation follows the request — so any team can pick it up instantly, with no lost context and no rework.

Escalade automatique des tickets Octopus
Complete traceability

Every action logged. Every audit made simple.

Get full traceability across your IT Services, assets and biomedical equipment — from the first request to resolution. No more audits pieced together at the last minute. Every data point lives in one place.

Tamper-proof timestamped activity log

Every action taken on a request is logged with a timestamp, the user who made the change, and the specific modification. Fully audit-ready.

Formulaires dynamiques préconfigurés Octopus

Documented equipment lifecycles

Purchase, preventive maintenance, incident, decommissioning — the full journey of an asset is documented and available in real time.

Exportable audit reports

Generate reports aligned with MSSS or partner requirements in minutes. PDF or Excel, whichever the audit calls for.

Catalogue de services intuitif Octopus

CMDB for IT and biomedical assets

Every piece of equipment gets a complete record: history, interventions, owner, location. Traceability extends all the way to the hardware.

Role-based access and permissions

Who did what, with what level of access. Rights are documented and reviewable for every security audit.

Base de connaissances intégrée Octopus
Smart prioritization

Clear priorities, applied automatically

Prioritization rules apply automatically based on urgency, impact, and facility. Every request is categorized on submission, routed to the right team, and escalated when needed. A clear, fair queue — adapted to the reality of each site.

Priority levels defined in advance

Prioritization rules are configured to your criteria — urgency, impact, request type — without the clinician needing to know any of them.

Formulaires dynamiques préconfigurés Octopus

By request type and by site

Set different response times based on criticality or facility. The system flags you before a deadline slips.

A fair, transparent queue

Requests are sorted by real urgency, not by who knows who. Technicians work from a clear, structured queue.

Catalogue de services intuitif Octopus

Automatic categorization at submission

The request type is detected the moment the ticket is created. The right priority level is assigned with zero manual input.

Automatic escalation if unresolved

Any request left unhandled past its SLA is escalated automatically to the right owner.

Base de connaissances intégrée Octopus

Meet your new built-in AI intelligent Assistant

Got a question? A request? A change to make? Just ask using plain language. Your Octopus AI Assistant figures it out and takes appropriate action. It's a fundamental shift in how you manage services.

Configuration, by conversation

Want to add a field, tweak a workflow, adjust a rule? Your AI Assistant does it for you — in real time, no code, no delay.

Proactively identify opportunities

Your AI Assistant scans for gaps, inefficient processes, and missing automations — then recommends concrete improvements before you think to ask for them.

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Urgency High
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Category Workstation
Subcategory Hardware
Service Work Environment
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People
Requester VD Vincent Desjardins
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Why these suggestions?

Analyze your data

Ask about your tickets, work orders, SLAs, trends, equipment and assets the way you'd ask a knowledgeable colleague.

Automated communications

Need to write a user announcement, a release note, or a new procedure? Your AI Assistant writes it for you — in the right tone, ready to deploy.

Solutions for every sector

Every sector operates by its own rules and constraints

ITSM

Octopus ITSM

End the daily scramble. Triage tickets, automate routing, and manage your IT services with centralized, reliable data. Built on ITIL best practices, easily configurable and scales with your team.

Octopus ITSM — IT service management solution
ESM

Octopus ESM

Service management isn't just for IT. Bring the same discipline to every team that supports the business. One orchestration layer. One experience.

Octopus ESM — enterprise service management solution
CMMS

Octopus CMMS

Stop reacting. Start planning. Centralize your assets, schedule preventive maintenance, and track work orders in real time.

Octopus CMMS — maintenance and asset management solution

Customer Stories

Deployed at scale across the Quebec healthcare network. Octopus works the way multi-site facilities work — grounded in the day-to-day realities.

During the merger of 3 CSSS and numerous centres, our IT team faced the challenge of maintaining data quality, a long but important task. The tools provided by Octopus, in addition to their team's availability, were key factors in selecting Octopus and the project's overall success.
Martine Lessard
IT Analyst
CISSS de la Montérégie-Ouest
CISSS de la Montérégie

Security and compliance at the heart of your operations

Developed to meet the strict requirements of public and private institutions. Octopus respects your strict security and compliance standards. Data is hosted in Canada. Every audit is made simple by full, timestamped traceability.
ITIL · SOC 2 Type 2 · Law 25 · Hosted in Canada

Octopus — Quebec hosting and Law 25 compliance

Healthcare Services: from complexity to complete clarity

Unify internal service management across your facilities to strengthen continuity of care and support faster, better decisions.