Approva Simplifies Governance, Risk & Compliance for Information Workers with Office Business Application
Business users to gain on-demand access to controls within the familiar environment of the 2007 Microsoft Office system
May 09, 2007 - Santa Clara, CA
Approva® Corporation (http://www.approva.net), the leader in continuous controls monitoring and audit automation software, unveiled new Office Business Application (OBA) capabilities which simplify compliance by integrating Approva’s governance, risk & compliance solutions with the 2007 Microsoft Office system. As a result of the integration, which is being showcased in the Microsoft pavilion at the Software 2007 conference in Santa Clara California, business users will gain on-demand access to controls within the familiar environment of Microsoft Office.
“Regulatory obligations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, are increasing demand for automated controls monitoring solutions, which can help reduce the cost and disruption that compliance often brings to large organizations,” said Robert Bernard, general manager of the Worldwide ISV Group at Microsoft Corp. “Extending Approva BizRights as an OBA enables information workers to build compliance-related tasks into their day-to-day business processes by utilizing the applications they already use on a daily basis.”
With this integration, Microsoft customers will be able to utilize their existing investments in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 to more transparently access, share and store information related to controls and compliance to support controls monitoring and analysis, remediation activities and streamline audits.
“Approva is committed to embracing the benefits of OBAs to simplify our customers’ governance, risk & compliance programs so that they can turn compliance from a cost to an asset,” said Rick Cobb, chief operating officer at Approva. “Our most recent release significantly expanded customers’ ability to monitor controls for SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards & PeopleSoft. Our work with Microsoft significantly expands our user base with the best standards in usability and performance in their Governance, Risk and Compliance initiative.”
About Approva
Approva® Corporation is the industry-leading provider of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software and is the continuous controls monitoring standard for half of the Big-4 audit firms. We enable business, finance, IT and audit professionals to automate and strengthen business and IT controls across SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and other legacy applications. Global companies such as Bayer, DirecTV, Discovery Communications, First Advantage, Honeywell, P&G, Pratt & Whitney, Siemens and T-Mobile rely on Approva to reduce compliance risk, increase operational efficiency and flag exceptions to their business controls. Approva has certified integrations with Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, IBM and SAP to provide a holistic GRC solution. For more information, visit http://www.approva.net.