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Business / IT Compliance
“Helping businesses automate their SoX compliance efforts with their own customized GRC tool”
We optimize your business and IT compliance processes by giving you the solution Impprova as part of our service. Impprova is a modular suite of tools designed to improve internal controls, mitigate financial risk, streamline SoX processes, reduce audit costs, and add business value by automating compliance efforts. Many current GRC tools are one size fits all packages that lack the flexibility to handle multiple platforms, are convoluted with unnecessary features making the tool over complicated, and do not address all the functionality your business requires. Our modules were developed by ex-Big 4 auditors with best practices in mind. Our philosophy is that GRC is a process, not a tool, and Impprova's modules were designed to be customizable around your business needs to enable an easier streamlined compliance process.
IMPPROVA Modules and Features:
Segregation of Duties (SOD)- Easily handles Cross-application SoD reviews (SAP vs. Hyperion)
- Allows easy tracking of approved SoD conflicts with mitigating controls
- Provides detailed information on how to resolve unwanted conflicts
- Integrates compensating controls from existing SoX Repository
- Works with all ERP, ‘off the shelf’ and, any proprietary systems
- Online certification system for user security permissions and roles
- Capable of dual review by hierarchical supervisor and/or functional role owner
- User role rejections can generate an IT ticket in any corporate resolution system
- Can be used to approve any type of access such as credit card limits, AFE amounts, Cost Center allocations, etc.
- Correlates users accounts from various systems by mapping ids to appropriate users
- Acts as a one-stop security access repository that can be used by auditors and other groups within the organization
- Non-intrusive to master data
- Document critical financial processes and controls
- Can be accessed by all process owners and delegates
- Email notifications to process owners for verification and updates
- Utilizes version control
- Financials upload tool to assist with corporate risk assessment
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Business Benefits
- Mitigate Business Risk – Increase the chance of preventing fraud, errors, and ultimately financial misstatements
- Prevent and Detect Conflicts - Assess potential security access request before they are provisioned to user or role
- Continuous SoD Monitoring - Report on conflicts near real-time, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually
- Audit efficiencies – One tool for documentation, testing, and issue tracking, thus allowing for value add auditing
- Business Improvements - Spend less time resolving issues and more time improving operations
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Impprova written in? Each module is written in ASP.Net with a SQL Server backend.
How does it install in your environment? Impprova is web based and will run on your intranet. It is optional if you want to access it via a mobile solution (e.g., Blackberry, iPhone, etc.) or internet.
What business systems work with Impprova? We designed Impprova to be application independent. We can connect to any system that has structured underlying data hosting the security model. We have "hooked" into major ERPs (e.g., SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, etc.), multiple consolidation tools, most major oil & gas marketing systems, all types of databases including Oracle, SQL Server, UniData, OpenLDAP, Sybase, Flat File, etc.
Will my auditors rely on it? With ex-Big 4 backgrounds, we are aware that no tool or process can be initially relied upon. We do understand though how to gain that comfort, and because it is our goal to streamline your processes and reduce costs, it is an inherent part of service to implement a solution that will be relied upon.
What if I want just one or two modules? No problem! Utilize only the modules your company requires. Our priority is streamlining your business processes and Impprova is only a means to do this. We even integrate with manual processes, competing, and/or proprietary SoX/SoD tools.
Read more questions and answers on our Impprova FAQ page.
Find out how these benefits impact specific departments. View a matrix showing how Finance, IT Security, and Audit is improved.
