Pentana - PAWS

The Pentana Audit Work System (PAWS) is an integrated suite of software designed by Pentana to manage a wide range of risk, audit, compliance and other corporate governance procedures. PAWS can help you to:

• Comply with various international auditing requirements, including Sarbanes-Oxley, Turnbull, Basel II and COSO.
• Improve control over your business and focus resources on the risks and issues that most concern you.
• Gain better and more timely management information on which to base your decisions, through our extensive analysis and reporting features.
• Perform more efficient and effective assignments, such as audits or risk reviews.
• Involve your business units more actively in Control Risk Self-Assessment and in the timely completion of agreed actions.
• Replace your old, often unreliable, spreadsheet or PC-database systems with a system that is robust, flexible, accessible and easily scalable.

PAWS comprises of the following product modules:

• PAWS Main Module – Allows Risk Managers and Assurance providers to identify and assess risks, undertake risk-based reviews and generate findings, actions, and the appropriate reports. Reviewers working off-site can copy reviews onto their laptops or work directly over the web.
• Web Action Module – for web-based action tracking and questionnaires.
• Web Risk Module – for web-based risks and controls management including Control Risk Self-Assessment across the entire business.

There are also optional links with Retain Resource Planning and Time Management modules for comprehensive staff and resource management.

PAWS runs on a SQL Server database. The database can be replicated for multi-site use and a check-out feature allows individual assignments to be updated collaboratively while disconnected from the network. Work papers can be attached at many levels in the software. Small installations can use the licence-free MSDE desktop edition of SQL Server.