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Client Quotes
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Enterprise Risk Assessor
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"Our Enterprise Risk Committee has found Methodware ERA to be an effective and valuable tool for carrying out our ERM mandate. It has definitely helped us document and work through our initial risk assessment and potential treatments."
Kathy Stevenson
Senior VP Finance for Interior Savings Credit Union - Kelowna B.C.
Canada
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"We chose ERA from Methodware after conducting detailed research into the risk software market. We have been using ERA for a number of months now and are very impressed with the functionality in the software and with Methodware's outstanding customer support."
Richard Burton
VP and Corporate Controller for McCain Foods
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"Having researched the market extensively to find an operational risk solution that met our requirements we were very impressed with the ERA capabilities and how it could adapt to our needs. Since making the decision to go with Methodware the help and support in building and installing the operational risk framework from Methodware has exceeded our expectations, it couldn't have gone better."
Tony Hurl-Hodges
Director of Risk for the Derbyshire Building Society
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"Regulation is moving towards a more systematic approach to documenting risks and the Skipton believe that using the ERA operational risk software allows a modern diverse financial group to manage this process more effectively. Most importantly however, as with all selection processes for outsourced products, lies the recognition that people support will be there to back up the software".
David Whitehead
Head of Risk for the Skipton Building Society
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"Our organisation operates in a dynamic and diverse environment with risk management considered as an integral component of corporate governance. Our need for a software solution to support this business methodology led us to evaluate a wide range of products and applications.
After evaluating an extensive suite of products we found Methodware risk management solutions not only met our compliance standards, but also provided a user-friendly front end modelling tool with the power and sophistication to consolidate and measure complex enterprise wide assessments.
We use Enterprise Risk Assessor to undertake risk assessments both as a snap shot in time for specific topics and for more detailed enterprise-wide, multi tiered risk assessments. With the enterprise-wide assessments we require a single risk management repository with the ability to slice and dice the results for a variety of compliance, audiences and business planning purposes. ERA has enabled us to undertake these major assessments and provides results that satisfy varied audiences.
We identified a need to refine the programming of the software to vary the scope of our assessments for purposes specific to our organisation. Methodware provided an excellent service in efficiently refining the software for our needs in an incredibly short time frame. In so doing, they also provided high quality training and customer support, which would be the envy of many IT providers.
The software and its refined versions have saved us time and improved our reputation by providing credible and accurate results at a first cut. In our business there is no time for a second cut. We must achieve the right results immediately to determine market impacts and make critical business decisions. There is no "wait-in a-queue and work your way through the numbers" approach to Methodware's service. It is immediate, personal and professional. They are our highest ranked customer service provider. "
Risk Management Advisor
Australian Governmental Regulation & Compliance Agency
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"Mercy Health & Aged Care operates a number of healthcare facilities including public and private hospitals, aged care accommodation and community services. It is anticipated that once each site has done an initial risk assessment the information will be loaded into the risk assessor. The data will be consolidated at a corporate level and reported to the Board on an ongoing basis.
We were attracted to Methodware for a number of reasons. Firstly, a comprehensive organisational risk program is extremely difficult to manage and track in terms of the amount of information generated.
Further, we needed a system that would allow us to readily identify commonalties and enable the sites to learn from each other particularly in the area of risk treatment. Importantly the Risk Builder allowed us to design a risk structure that was relevant to us and our business.
As an example we are now able to readily link our risks to various accreditation standards required by government and industry organisations."
Kerry Shearer, Risk Manager
Mercy Health & Aged Care
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"The Ministry of Health uses Enterprise Risk Assessor to support its risk management processes, and has also provided it to the 21 District Health Boards across the country.
"We chose the system because it facilitates the consolidation of separate risk registers into one, enabling us to give different business units autonomy while retaining consistency and suggesting the types of risks they should be including.
We are very satisfied with the product and the training, help and expertise that we have received from Methodware. Enterprise Risk Assessor is fully meeting our expectations and has helped us advance our management of risks."
Steve Brazier, Chief Internal Auditor
Ministry of Health
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"We have found Enterprise Risk Assessor to be an invaluable tool to our Corporation. Not only does it allow simple, efficient reporting and analysis at the divisional level, but by utilising the consolidation functionality, the system allows summarised reporting and detailed comparative analysis to be undertaken in a more timely and concise manner."
Sam McCaffrey,
SA Water
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ERA Lite
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"Internal Audit of SAirGroup has recently implemented Methodware's ERA Lite tool to facilitate its risk management pilot project. Based on an internationally accepted framework, ERA Lite has provided us with a well structured approach. It's high quality MS Word reports and ease of use has provided great value for money. We are looking to use ERA Lite for a more risk oriented audit approach."
Paul Sprecher, Group Audit
SAirGroup
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"The Belgian Railways use Methodware's ERA Lite for their risk management. The software is of great help during the brainstorming sessions in the different Business Units. It allows us to write made-to-measure reports. Furthermore, the results of the analysis are conveniently arranged in bubble graphs."
Freddy De Vilder, Internal Audit NMBS/SNCB
Belgium
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Cobit Audit Advisor
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BENEFICIOS DEL USO DEL COBIT ADVISOR
"Aprovechamiento de los lineamientos generales, con el fin de guiar en forma estandarizada la planeación de la Auditoria. Optimización del tiempo utilizado para la elaboración y generación del informe de resultados de cada evaluación. Reducción del tiempo utilizado en la elaboración de los papeles de trabajo soporte de la evaluación.
Centralización de la información, facilitando y optimizando los seguimientos a los informes. Facilidad para modificar los reportes estándar de la herramienta, teniendo en cuenta los parámetros planteados al interior de Auditoria para la presentación de informes."
Auditoria Interna
COLSUBSIDIO (COLOMBIA - Sur América)
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"El Cobit Advisor ha permitido orientar nuestros estudios de auditoría hacia los temas de mayor riesgo en Tecnología de Información. La herramienta facilita obtener un detalle de los aspectos críticos que se deben evaluar para los diferentes procesos de TI, lo cual facilita el proceso de planeación de los trabajos. La facilidad para generar modelos permite contar con programas de trabajo estandarizados y reutilizables que redundan en una disminución en los tiempos de planeación y ejecución. La herramienta también es utilizada para definir, ejecutar y documentar estudios especiales de auditoría que por su naturaleza requieren de objetivos de control y guías de auditoría propias de la Auditoría."
Alex Ortega Ortega, Manager Audit Technology Department
Banco Popular de Costa Rica
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"Predictive Systems is a leading consulting firm focused on building, optimising, and securing high-performance infrastructure to increase operational efficiency, mitigate risk, and empower the new business initiatives of Fortune 1000 firms.
In the UK, Predictive uses the Cobit Advisor from Methodware in the delivery of its Business Exposure Assessment Service. This service is aimed at clients who need to know the financial exposure that their business faces as a result of potential IT Security Incidents. It also provides an assessment of the effectiveness of the controls that the organisation has in place to protect against such incidents. The value of the service to our clients is that it highlights the areas where controls need to be strengthened, and through the quantified exposure figure also delivers the cost justification for doing so. The Cobit Advisor greatly enhances the efficiency with which the assessment part of the work can be done, by minimising the time required to collect and analyse the data, and facilitating the production of high quality reports. This enables Predictive to offer a very cost-effective service, with rapid results for our clients."
Kerry Litten, Senior Consultant
Predictive Systems
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"We are utilizing COBIT Advisor in a unique way - as a Comprehensive IT Controls Self Assessment Program. In order to do this we removed all the default Cobit steps, developed our own self-assessment steps and installed them into COBIT Advisor. The resulting templates were then distributed to our global locations for completion. By merging the results of these assessments we have been able to identify common issues and develop action plans for correcting these issues. This has been a real success!"
Audit Manager
World-leading Food Processing Company
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Planning Advisor
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"Planning Advisor software provides me with a tool to automate audit planning and allows the audit plan to be continuously updated for emerging issues within the organisation. It is a move away from the once a year plan and into an up to date reference on the audit priorities."
Maree Patane
Executive Manager Audit, TAB Queensland.
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Pro Audit Advisor
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"We implemented PRo Audit Advisor and found it to be a very practical tool to structure, organise and document our audit projects. Its flexibility allowed us to adapt it to our needs."
Paul Leiner, Finance Corporate Audit (FCA)
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Germany
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"La necesidad de generar reportes de auditoría en menores plazos, los mayores requerimientos de control y la diversidad de riesgos a evaluar, nos impulsaron a incorporar herramientas informáticas que soportaran efectivamente nuestra gestión. Con ese objetivo y como parte de un proyecto para la utilización de las mejores prácticas internacionales en este campo, hemos seleccionado e incorporado PRo Audit Advisor para organizar y documentar nuestros trabajos de auditoría."
Alcides C. Ceballos, Gerente de Auditoría Interna
ARCOR SAIC
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Translation of the above Spanish quote:
Arcor S.A.I.C. is an Argentinian company that manufactures and sells delicacies (chocolates, candies, biscuits, etc.) all over the world. It is one of the largest companies in the world in their industry with 30 manufacturing plants located in Argentina and other Latin American countries.
"The need to generate audit reports in short timeframes, the increasing control requirements and the diversity of risks to evaluate, have impelled us to incorporate software tools to effectively support the management of our activity. With that objective and as a part of a project to use and apply the best international practices in this field, we have selected and implemented PRo Audit Advisor for organising and documenting our audit projects."
Alcides C. Ceballos, Internal Audit Manager
ARCOR SAIC
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"Decidimos trabajar con el "PRo Audit" en la Auditoría del Banco de la República, luego de un exhaustivo análisis de sus características y funcionalidad. Actualmente, la Auditoría se ha visto beneficiada principalmente porque permite desarrollar análisis más ágiles de los procesos, riesgos y controles a auditar con mejores resultados dada la forma como se presenta la información. Las tablas, reportes y gráficos brindan al profesional una manera segura de consultar la información de acuerdo con su necesidad. Esta herramienta fue implementada en marzo de 2000 y rápidamente aceptada dentro de la Auditoría por su amigabilidad y fácil manejo. Adicionalmente, el consumo de papel se ha visto reducido y ha permitido recolectar mayor evidencia de los análisis realizados. Sabemos que esta herramienta ofrece mayores beneficios que esperamos aprovechar con el tiempo."
AUDITORIA GENERAL DEL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA.
(Colombia - Sur América)
Translation of the above Spanish quote:
"We decided to use PRo Audit in the Audit of the Bank of the Republic, after an exhaustive analysis of its characteristics and functionality. At the moment, the Audit has seen its benefits mainly because it provides us with more agile analyses of the processes, risks and controls which provides better end results. The tables, reports and graphs make it easy to consult the information as necessary. This tool was implemented in March of 2000 and was quickly accepted due to its ease of use and user-friendliness. Additionally, paper consumption has been reduced and the software has made it possible to conduct analyses in more depth. We know that this tool offers greater benefits and we hope to take advantage of these in time."
AUDITORIA GENERAL DEL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA.
(Colombia - Sur América)
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General Comments
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"I will sell MW (Methodware) to anybody as it is soooooo easy. MW products give you focus on your audit, risk assessment and audit flow processes. MW products meet all Vodacom's requirements and saves us time when printing findings into our final report."
Wilna Meiring, Manager Internal Audit (South Africa)
Vodacom
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"For a Dutch client the distance to New Zealand might be a concern, but I am always surprised and pleased by the way Methodware can respond as quick as they do. New Zealand is not so far away after all."
KPMG EDP Auditors
Netherlands.
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"Methodware has given me the ability to reduce the manual audit work papers that are maintained and automate and improve client and management reporting. The support from Methodware has been excellent and they are always willing to investigate my suggestions for improvement to the products. Methodware software has provided cost-effective solutions which I have been able to customise to my unique business needs for a small Internal Audit operation."
Glenn Winter, Internal Audit Manager
Health Services Australia
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"Whenever our organisation is faced with an operational review or risk area that requires an efficient and flexible documentation, monitoring and reporting tool, we always check whether Methodware has a solution for us. We have found that implementing a Methodware standard or customised tool, saves us time and cost that would otherwise be spent building the tools ourselves. We have found them so easy and cost efficient to work with, that they have already built two specific tools for us and are customising a third."
Brian Robb, Risk and Quality Assurance Manager
Land Information New Zealand
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