Overview
Visual GRC offers the following system features to maximize the user experience, integrate the Enterprise governance risk and compliance framework, and manage vast amounts of information:
• A dynamic web-based graphical intuitive user environmentenhances the user’s ability to maximize operability of the application and efficiently manage large amounts of information. Visual Governance employs the latest web technology to effectively present the information through a Web 2.0 rich user interface.
• Customizable and flexible role-based system security – Visual Governance has been design to fit the needs of small to large Enterprise organizations. In order to maintain adequate system security and protect the confidentiality of your data, a role-based security structure has been implemented. The security structure provides pre-defined user roles to maintain application security and data confidentiality. This allows management to access, view and properly utilize compliance information without having excessive rights to other critical functions such as editing testing result data.
• Flexible Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance structure – Visual Governance provides a consistent framework and structure to design and manage all your Governance activities. Whether you are a services provider Firm or a large Enterprise, ensuring consistency of your Governance documentation, methodology, and approach is critical. Visual Governance has been developed using real-world proven methodologies and best practice standards. Sarbanes- Oxley Section 404 compliance templates integrate COSO and Cobit frameworks that have been successfully implemented in real Organizations to achieve compliance. To learn more, read our Visual Governance Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Framework White Paper.
• Customizable application rules – Visual Governance provides balance between the framework structure and its established methodology with certain degree of personalization that can be configured in the system. While proper practices require that documents are drafted, reviewed and subsequently approved to ensure completeness and authorization, you can customize the Visual Governance system rules to automatically approve documents once they have been reviewed. This level of system customization allows Visual Governance to reflect your Enterprise existing processes and standards. You can chose from multiple customization parameters such as default system language, currency, time formats to more complex rules such as automated document workflow management, task notification, and issue management alerting.
• Web-based service architecture – Visual Governance has been designed using a multi-tier scalable web-based architecture to support large Enterprise installations or allow smaller Organizations to easily leverage our Application Service Provider solution to begin reaping the benefits of this extraordinary governance, risk and compliance integrated system without having to increase on-site technical support staff or additional system platforms. Visual Governance maximizes the user experience, system functionality and adds intuitive operation through the use of Web 2.0 components such as dynamic drag and drop and fisheye.
• Electronic document eco-friendly system – Anyone who has conducted a full Enterprise audit knows the amounts of paperwork that is produced, and more importantly, how much is plain waste! Visual Governance allows you to execute a full electronic audit by giving you the flexibility to import all your electronic workpapers in numerous formats, providing electronic signature capability to maintain documents in electronic formats with appropriate approvals, and even create on-line reports that can be reviewed and saved electronically to minimize the impact to the environment.
• Data import tools – Automating your Governance Risk Compliance effort does not mean you are starting from scratch. Visual Governance allows you to import data from spreadsheets, databases, text files and other formats to leverage existing work, and avoid duplication of efforts.
