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High Bond is a great workflow tool to track project progression
What do you like best about the product?
I like the percent completed tracker as it is a quick indication as to where the project is visually
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the progress tracker wasn't based on each of the 3 sign-offs, just the final noe
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to replace a lot of our previous processes such a storing files on a shared drive. The biggest benefit is version control.
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HighBond + ACL Automation of Third Party Sales Audit
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to automate and the possibility to include audit data from different sources.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of use cases outside the Galvanize comunnity.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm solving/moving from sample testing to full population testing, from manual data collection to automated, from email questioner based to cloud/managed-based.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you consult the Sales support team when it comes to licences and roles within the tool.
The Premier Analytics Platform for Audit
What do you like best about the product?
HighBond technology has helped to transform how employee expense, accounts payable, IT risk management, and enterprise security data is managed. We are using analytics to add value by assisting in the reviews of unusual transactions, facilitating data extraction, and improving reporting and audit rule definitions within our employee expense application. We have also developed additional invoice tests not performed by management and defined data sets from the Mainframe system for the accounts payable department. Using HighBond, we have enhanced manual reviews performed by IT risk management through automation and developed the ability to quickly provide feedback and allow timely remediation of identified issues. Assisting corporate security with investigations by analyzing data is another area where we have been able to add value. HighBond technology has given us the tools to develop sophisticated risk analytics that are more advanced than random sampling, manual spreadsheet manipulations, or business intelligence. From data classification to auditing and reporting, the use of this technology is helping to shape the future of business processes.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be a little cumbersome to navigate. Two main challenges we overcame (and our solutions) were creating data analytics programs that were repeatable and output results in a measurable or auditable way. We created ACL script libraries to automate everything from importing data exports (Excel and PDF files) from the many different systems to sending notification emails once the analytics complete execution with a link to the shared folder containing the results. We built a graphical user interface out of the dialog function with options so anyone in the department could run the analytics without having to run individual scripts. For audit purposes, we created a risk rating method for transactions flagged by the analytics. This assigns a high, medium, or low risk rating to every flagged transaction using the average, standard deviation, and statistics functions. We added methods in the scripts to allow us to trend our analytics results over time giving management insight into performance indicators that they did not previously have.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Highbond technology improved efficiency and coverage by combining decentralized datasets related to employee expenses into a single source for analysis. A library of 74 scripts with over 40 test cases was developed in ACL to identify issues ranging from fraud to policy gaps. We have been able to successfully implement continuous monitoring for all employee expense activity over the last 18 months. As a result, audit rules within the employee expense application have been improved to prevent exceptions that were not previously flagged and broadly defined expense guidelines are in the process of being transformed into updated policies and procedures. The employee expense analytics performed with ACL resulted in over 4,000 transactions being reviewed during 2018, totaling upwards of $2M. We identified over 800 exceptions of which 20 percent were related to policy non-compliance, 4 percent were related to policy enhancements, and 2 percent required additional review for potential fraud or other reasons. In total we analyzed over 430,000 expense transactions totaling in excess of $300M dollars. These statistics relate to only one of the many areas where we have incorporated HighBond technology.
Good mix of products
What do you like best about the product?
Analytics allowed out internal audit analytics function to get up and running. Analytics has been plug and play once we have connected to all of our internal and external data sources. The expression builder, and the ability to save expressions, is a huge time saver when implementing repeatable analytics. Scripting has allowed us to move to continous monitoring where applicable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of autocomplete in coding areas and lack of onscreen help. When entering a formula, please let me see function parameters and examples within the expression builder, not on the help website.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using analytics to power our internal audit analytics function. We are able to complete analytics and send to audit teams for use. We can also collaborate on analytics within the team. Audit logs and scripts help facilitate analytics management.
Great software with forward facing capabilities
What do you like best about the product?
Customizable field setups
ACL Analytics Included
Potential for Robotics/Automation
Integrated Workflows
ACL Analytics Included
Potential for Robotics/Automation
Integrated Workflows
What do you dislike about the product?
- Does not have an elegant solution for selecting/downloading individual areas (start to finish control export, without exporting full sections of your file (i.e. walkthroughs for every process, not just the one you want with the accompanying testing workpapers and background details in 1 download)
- Open text box for documenting has table limits not friendly for exporting or using its advanced features (team tries to push attaching excel workpaper attachments instead)
- No auto-selection possibility with population files for business process controls
- Interface could be nicer
- Open text box for documenting has table limits not friendly for exporting or using its advanced features (team tries to push attaching excel workpaper attachments instead)
- No auto-selection possibility with population files for business process controls
- Interface could be nicer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This solution provides me an integrated solution to streamline our SOX Compliance Evaluation and Non-SOX projects with a lot of great workflow capabilities.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
They listen and try to help you the best they can achieve your objectives
Use of ACL Analytics software
What do you like best about the product?
Performance on script execution and cleansing functionalities
What do you dislike about the product?
ACL projects crash or compromission
Some connectors to data
Machine learning less
Some connectors to data
Machine learning less
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Continuous audit and a lot analytics on the audit team
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Yes for an internal audit dedicated IT plateform
ACL is an easy to use tool for auditor
What do you like best about the product?
I enjoy building analytics in ACL that speed up the auditing process. The ACL Robotics simplifies creating automation scripts and allows us to use the scheduler to execute unattended audit tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
The lack of a sophisticated tool to build eye-catching reports and poor integration with Excel are the two main things I dislike. In addition, Python should be included as part of the development suite. While ACL provides many data connectors, installing Oracle data connector is problematic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We built a centralized data depository with ACL, which refreshes monthly. We also make use of ACL Robotics to generate inquiries to the auditees automatically. We reduce our audit time by 75%.
Standerdize out Audits
What do you like best about the product?
Our department has been able to standardize and start gathering metrics.
What do you dislike about the product?
We still have issues with not including reference materials, Results, and cites in the audit reports.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Standardizat9on and getting statistics to create a metrics
So far so good!
What do you like best about the product?
My department uses Highbond for ACL Analytics. Customer service and Galvanize Academy have been wonderful. I have an accounting background, not an IT background, and there's been so much to learn, but I think anyone could do it.
What do you dislike about the product?
n/a - Everything has been great so far!!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our data analytics program has taken off because of HighBond. We realize that as an internal audit function, data analytics is our future, and HighBond is helping us get there.
Best unified platform that easily manage manual task, compliances and security risks
What do you like best about the product?
The best software I have experienced with a unified high bond platform that can easily control manual tasks, security risk and manage all compliances perfectly. It is an industry-leading platform that provides premium features with a user-friendly interface. It helps us to streamline the audit process and compliance programs as well in a single platform. It is easy to use and easy to implement.
What do you dislike about the product?
Overall it works perfectly, except reporting could be more intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Highbond platform helps us to streamline the audit process and compliance programs as well in a single platform. It is easy to use and easy to implement.
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