| Continuous Monitoring Solutions for You |
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| SymSure for IDEA is a comprehensive software framework that enables organizations to easily build continuous monitoring into all areas of their operations. Most continuous monitoring solutions are application-based and support only specific business processes such as Purchase to Pay. SymSure for IDEA can be applied to any business process, regardless of the underlying system or platform, across the entire organization. |
Overview
How SymSure for IDEA Can Meet Your Needs for Continuous Monitoring
- Provides management with an enterprise-wide view of controls and compliance.
- Offers a more sustainable compliance process - can be implemented and maintained without the use of expensive consultants.
- Reduces errors and fraud.
- Enables cost recovery and revenue assurance.
- Is independent of business systems.
Features
| Below are the features for SymSure for IDEA. To view all enhancements, press the Open All button on the right hand side. Or press the heading to see enhancements for that subject. | Open All Close All |
Once the controls to be monitored are identified, you can design tests in IDEA using IDEAScript, a powerful industry-standard programming language, or Visual Script, a new tool in IDEA Version Eight that allows script creation with no programming required. Tests can be scheduled from within IDEA using the SymSure Navigator.
Resolution of issues and the associated improvements in the control environment are critical to realizing the value of continuous monitoring. SymSure for IDEA boasts an impressive collection of simple but effective functionality to manage issues, including:
- assigning exceptions to specific users for action. Once results are assigned, users can review/close, reassign, comment, exempt and view history of activities.
- including users/groups to be alerted for information purposes only
- setting up an escalation process
- controlling whether or not the assigned user can close the issue
- performing all of the above based on conditions
SymSure™ for IDEA allows for the exemption of specific records as a way of reducing false-positives. Exemptions are reversible and can be viewed at anytime.
