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Compliance

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Business Process Discovery for SOX (and other compliance regimes)

Increased attention to compliance plays an important role in the way that public and private businesses, government and even non-profits are managing their businesses. Driven to a large degree by evolving and increasingly complex regulations, companies and organizations are forced to spend a significant amount of time and money on attorneys, consultants, auditors and software to satisfy compliance requirements.

A great deal of regulatory compliance for internal controls requires nothing more than simply documenting what you do, then having it reviewed and verified. However, most software packages only take a microscopic view of the problem, failing to illuminate how compliance connects and impacts other organizational processes and procedures. The result is that you become compliant, but without any additional benefits including process improvements, cost benefits and elimination of redundancy.

Compliance Issues and the need for Business Process Discovery & Capture

Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 compliance is a very important issue for companies today. However, it is often quite a difficult matter to define what level of control is really required. SOX compliance can become unwieldy without the proper top-down approach of asking;

What control items are we looking to substantiate?
How can we achieve these controls?

Well now you can with ProcessPad!

Such controls need to be planned in conjunction with your corporate business process best practice model to keep things in one place. ProcessPad allows you to add control checkpoints to your business processes at the activity level.

ProcessPad offers an efficient and cost effective solution

ProcessPad and Six Sigma

Yes it’s true. Senior management is tired of seeing all the graphs and charts used to explain the behavior of complex systems.

It is not that senior managers don’t want to gain an in-depth understanding of how a complex system works. But it’s that they don’t have the time or energy when confronted with the same methods used the ancient Egyptians (hieroglyphics). Most organisations are still relating complex concepts with static Visio pictures. Graphs and pictograms are a great improvement over text descriptions, but a dynamic visualization in Process Pad of your process conveys vast knowledge by linking the named BPMN icon in a process with the textual explanation of it.

And additionally, that icon is also linked to the performance statistics of that process step.

Management will be able to gain as deep an understanding as they want without devoting pyramid building effort to get that understanding. You see, no matter how good your idea, you have to be able to sell the concept to those that can authorize the project.

ProcessPad for Supply Chain Operations Reference

The Supply Chain Council (SCC) has established what it calls the SCOR Project Roadmap, which is a kind of methodology . This methodology suggests an order in which specific SCOR activities could be accomplished, for which ProcessPad is a key tool.

Phases in the SCOR Methodology

Review Corporate Strategy.
This isn’t so much a project phase, as a decision to consider whether an existing supply chain can be improved. Once this decision is taken, a team is set up, trained in the SCOR methodology if necessary, and set to work.

ProcessPad delivers information intelligence

Web Service is a collection of protocols and standards used for exchanging data between applications, written in different programming languages and running on different platforms. ProcessPad is the discovery software that allows users to define how they want to use new or existing processes through the companies Workflow Engine.

The interoperability between applications is achieved by naming the protocol for exchanging data in ProcessPad and then defining activity in the process by exposing and accessing the web services. OASIS and W3C are the steering communities responsible for the architecture and standardization of web services.

ProcessPad delivers Web Services Orchestration

There is no doubt that SOA and Web Services have tremendously improved interoperability between businesses by making the necessary resource readily accessible to businesses - achieved through process discovery.

As a result, the cost of collaboration among partners is no longer prohibitive and the business configurations that a company can adopted is virtually limitless. However the expansion in business configuration possibilities has its side-effects. It increases the complexity of managing the business. To cope with the complexity and uncertainty, ProcessPad was developed to manage business processes while enabling flexibility to adapt to changes in the business environment. ProcessPad therefore provides Services Oriented Architecture with an orchestration and choreography mechanism.

Orchestration and Choreography describe the important aspects of creating high level, cross-organizational businesses processes.

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