Certification Manager
Automate Periodic Review Processes
- Product Overview
- Key Benefits
What is Certification Manager?
Certification Manager ensures timely, swift execution of periodic review processes, such as user access attestations and internal control and policy reviews, by automating laborious data gathering, consolidation and tracking activities. Certification Manager gathers the data for each review from enterprise applications, databases, directories and other file sources, routes the information to the appropriate reviewers, tracks actions taken, facilitates sign-off by senior management and maintains a complete historical record for auditors. Automated escalations and status tracking ensure participation and enforce deadlines.
Certification Manager Software Capabilities
Simple, Actionable Interface
Certification Manager provides web-based access to review tasks, with the ability to drill down to view contextual details that support thoughtful decision-making. Users can perform review tasks directly from the interface rather than spending hours documenting actions in spreadsheets.
Fully Automate Sign-Off & Audit Trail
Certification Manager automatically initiates scheduled processes, collects the data, generates review tasks and routes to the appropriate reviewers. Email notifications signal reviewers to log into the application, review their tasks and take action. Managers and process coordinators are kept informed of progress and status of reviews, with automated escalation and intervention when deadlines are missed. Email notification and task routing is configured based on user-defined criteria (i.e. role naming conventions, user attributes, organizational values, etc.). All actions taken, including sign-offs, are audited and available in reports.
Flexible Process Definition
Configure a review process for virtually any type of certification process in minutes. Automate reviews of user access to business systems, internal control and policy reviews, access to mobile devices and more. Certification Manager provides a standard, auditable approach for managing all kinds of reviews along with dashboards and reports that provide visibility into the status and results of each review.
Notifications, Escalations, Reports & Dashboards
Keep review processes moving forward, with automated reminders and escalations when deadlines are missed. Reports and dashboards keep you informed of review status, trends and risks. Detailed audit reports streamline external audits by eliminating time-consuming preparation.
Reduced Risk & Fraud
Accurate and easy-to-understand information is presented with rich contextual details to ensure that each review is a meaningful process and not just a “check the box” exercise.
Reduced Audit Preparation Time
Save hundreds of hours each audit cycle by automating laborious data preparation, consolidation and sleuthing activities.
Faster Review Cycles
Eliminates the disruption that most reviewers feel when asked to participate in a periodic review process. Automatic delivery of actionable information encourages participation and eliminates time consuming e-mail exchanges and follow-up tracking.
Lower Compliance Costs
Automated processes with documented audit trails significantly reduce audit preparation time and streamline external audits.
Additional Product Resources
The value we’re seeing is in the quality of participation. Reviewers have better information and context. They’re making thoughtful decisions that we can rely on. User access reviews are no longer a meaningless “check the box” activity.