Successful Auditors have Vision!
Introducing Pentana Vision
Pentana Vision is the future of audit management systems. Developed from the ground up using the latest Microsoft technologies, Pentana Vision is not just another upgrade; it’s the next generation of audit and risk management software from Pentana and is set to prove that successful auditors have Vision.
Pentana Vision provides the technical platform for our long-term successor to the Pentana Audit Work System (‘PAWS’) and our wider product range. Our mission with the Pentana Vision project is to embrace everything that is good in PAWS, while addressing key customer feedback in order to arrive at an unparalleled user experience.
Pentana Vision offers a modern and simple user interface and yet it is extraordinarily powerful. Its ‘smart client’ approach delivers the rich functional experience of a Windows application and yet the simplicity of a browser application.
It takes time to succeed a product as powerful and flexible as PAWS, which had evolved through tens of man-years of continuous investment. At present, Pentana Vision delivers a subset of the PAWS functionality, with remaining features due to be added progressively over time.
Features available in Pentana Vision include:
Is Pentana Vision the right choice for you?
Pentana Vision is a capable product in its own right, but it’s only just the beginning. More features will be implemented progressively over the next 12 to 18 months, with upcoming releases planned to address the full scope of our PAWS Software.
Potential audit and risk management software users now have a choice with Pentana. They can implement PAWS immediately and upgrade to Pentana Vision at a later date as set out in the next section, or they can instead implement Pentana Vision today. There are a number of factors to take into account in this decision and we will try to give advice on the best way forward in each case. Factors to take into account are:
- Technology issues that might be resolved using the new Pentana Vision platform, such as a geographically distributed team
- The importance placed on having complete audit management functionality immediately as opposed to a build up of features over the next year
- The need for any of the new Pentana Vision features such as audits spanning entities and processes, or use in multi-client environments
- Attitude to risk in relation to a newer technology and product
- An assessment of the ease of transition to the new Pentana Vision interface from PAWS
With limited current Pentana Vision functionality, many potential clients with a tight timescale will choose to implement PAWS first. As we add further functional areas over the next year, more new clients will elect to go straight to Pentana Vision.
As the functional areas covered by Pentana Vision increase, PAWS users will want to consider an appropriate time to move over to the new software. There is no additional license cost for upgrading to Pentana Vision as long as there is a continuous, paid up PAWS maintenance agreement for the appropriate number of users. However, clients will normally benefit from implementation consulting assistance to take full advantage of new Pentana Vision features.
Special price incentives are available to customers who are selected to act as ‘early adopters’ of Pentana Vision.
