1. Enterprise GRC Solutions
Why choose Pentana?
Discover why Pentana software solutions are trusted by over 450
international clients and have been for over 20 years.

2. Comprehensive
global audit and risk
management software Pentana
Efficiency is Key!
Pentana Software provides
efficiencies to users that are
vital for audit and assurance
departments to improve the
quality of their audits and
enable them to become more
productive.

3. Pentana integrated audit and risk management software was first released
in 2002 and is now one of the leading software solutions to deliver
Governance, Risk and Compliance solutions. Pentana software has been
further enhanced since the acquisition in 2013 by Ideagen plc, integrating
policy and quality management systems with audit and risk management.
Scheduling:
Pentana provides the capability to generate proposed audit schedules using a
2-dimensional structure of organization and processes, based on risk factors
and historic information simultaneously. This facilitates better and more
efficient audit planning based on multiple levels of criteria within the same
display.
Planning:
Pentana provides basic staff planning and actual time reporting, staff can be
easily assigned to audits, driving efficient management of precious resources
and better planning based on clear and unequivocal information
.
Methodologies:
Standard libraries of audit methodology, risks, controls, tests and findings
speed up performance of audits. By defining and utilizing the industry
standard audit steps, risks and controls in the library, auditors are able to easily
apply these to future audits of the same type ensuring high standards and
consistency of audits across the enterprise, massively reducing the need to re-input
the standard data.

4. Team Work:
Instant access is available to individual work items that require attention from the
home screen, this is provided without the auditor needing to launch the individual
audits, thus ensuring that the auditor’s time is spent on the most critical work. This
instant access capability builds collaborative working between audit team members in
different locations, improving efficiencies and sharing expertise and knowledge.
Additional efficiencies can be achieved through automatic cross referencing and
hyperlinks to related work, taking a user directly to all related items between
any two records across the universe.
Reporting:
The powerful ability to create MS Office audit reports automatically, based
on findings in the database ensures accuracy of the data being reported
upon, reduces auditor time in building specific reports, saves further time by
automating the input of repeat content required in all “standard” reports that
an organisation requires.
Pentana can be used globally to update a single central database of GRC
information for ease of management reporting.
Action/Issue tracking:
Pentana is designed so that the updating of actions and their status is
outsourced to the auditees, with automated follow-up reminders and
reporting on the progress of actions built in to the environment.
Occasional users
For auditees and business risk and control owners, Pentana gives flexible
access, including:
›› email and spreadsheet based workflow, for example to update action status
without the need to sign in to an additional system
›› concurrent licensing to provide limited functionality and a simplified
interface in the main application
›› integration with dashboard tools to provide management reporting,
independent of the application.
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5. Pentana can be used
globally to update a
single central database
of GRC information for
ease of management
reporting.
SOX & Risk:
Pentana makes risk, SOX and compliance departments more effective by:
›› giving global risk and control owners a simple interface to update their own
assessments
›› using standard risk and control libraries to assist in identification of potential risks and
expected controls
›› providing a structured workflow to carry out risk and control reviews
›› documenting loss events and incidents that may trigger a reassessment of risk levels
›› displaying simple analyses of inherent and residual risk exposures and control
effectiveness providing continuous improvement through centralized control
improvement actions
Analytics:
Automated interfaces to common data analytics tools. Saving time by being able to
run all analytic tasks for an audit at one time. Save massive amounts of time in the
execution and relaying of analytic results to audit work papers. Minimize opportunities
for error in translation or incomplete substantiation of audit testing, thus saving
valuable auditor staff time.
Usability:
Pentana provides a modern desktop interface with full graphic capabilities that is the
same for both on-line and off-line working.
The system includes full rich text and multi-language capabilities, as well as complying
with stringent security standards.
Smart Client technology is applied to cache data locally, so avoiding the performance
and usability issues of Browser based applications, even over slow internet connections.
IT Deployment:
It is easy for IT departments to deploy to large teams through a single web site link,
which automatically updates all users for new versions of the software when they next
launch the application.
Configuration for client specific business rules and data fields without alteration to the
underlying software is readily available.

6. Enterprise GRC Solutions
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Enquiries:
info@ideagenplc.com
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+44 (0) 1629 699100
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+44 (0) 1629 699400
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+1 (877) 876 3430
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