Pentana Audit Reviews

The ability to customize in several places and to locate files in separate areas of the audit or recommendations.

Some of the reporting structures are not as easy to navigate to get to the reports we need.

Its solving the Audit universe and plan for the Audit committee. Also the Year plan schedule and update. Tracks the recommendations very weel.

It helps me manage several audit projects simultaneously, with effective interaction and oversight.

Reporting somehow need some enhancements

Streamline operations, building experience and documenting the process from A-Z

A very viable , reliable and secured platform for documentations

Absolutely nothing, everything about the software is awesome

Audit Programme and working paper

The presence of auditors in multiple countries posed challenges and led to signicant disparities in our audit work and reporting expectations. However, Pentana has successfully mitigated these hurdles by standardizing our audit structures, phases and reporting, streamlining our processes, and ensuring consistency in our audit practices worldwide.

Unfortunately, our experience with this software has been marred by inadequate customer support, particularly with the initial user configurations. Presently, we only have a single member of our audit team that is able to sign in to the live database.

Before adopting Pentana, our global audit operations faced notable challenges in our audit expectations and practices. The software's capabilities have allowed us to streamline our processes and attain a consistent approach to auditing across various locations, thus resolving our initial challenge of maintainting uniformity amidst geographical diversity.

Audits scopes, plans and work-papers are intuitively designed. Supporting documents and field work are simple to attach where necessary. After comparing three options, the scalability and pricepoint were the final elements that sold it for us!

Added: Their Support Team is awesome. Despite timezone differences, responses are prompt and the issue is dealt with until you are completely satisfied.

The only issues we faced were report generation. The auto reports may need adjusting to your requirements, and some programming knowledge is necessary. They do provide this service, but having your own IT is better. Overall, a minor issue.

Update: Since upgrading to the new "Ideagen Internal Audit" branding, we found some issues with opening "Working Papers" for existing audits. The support team was very responsive! However we had to end up reverting temporarily until they can fix the issue. The auditee web interface works seamlessly though.

Ideagen Internal Audit formerly "Pentana AuditMK", eliminated the excessive use of spreadsheets for organizing, and the need for constant follow-up with auditees. Timeliness has improved, and it is easier for our Departments to respond.

The solution is compatible and integrated with our Office365 solution such as the Microsoft Exchange and Outlook. It sends reminder emails to our engagement clients for approaching deadline of Target Implementation Date for an audit recommendation.

How we use the Ideagen Audit solution in 9mobile:

(i) Annual Audit Planning

(ii) Audit management

(iii) Documentation of audit work

(iv) We use it to create and store audit templates or audit programmes for all our audit universe.

(v) We use it to track and manage previous audit recommendations.

(vi) We also use the Time and Expenses Recording applet.

(vii) Our business users or engagement clients have access to give updates on on-going implementations on recommendations.

(viii) Feedback from audit clients is also received with questionnaires dispatched to them via the audit solution.

(ix) Is used to drive the execution of remediation activities to limit exposure to identified risks.

(x) Collaborate easily with people who are being audited, with clear processes and questionnaires

Sometime my colleagues experience lock of audit file to different auditor or lock of audit recommendation which makes the recommendation uneditable until myself as the administrator log on to admin console to to remove the lock and sometimes, I have to recreate the local data store folder.

Annual Audit Planning.

Audit management.

Documentation of audit work.

Creation and storage of audit templates or audit programmes for all our audit universe.

Tracking and managing previous audit recommendations.

Documentation of Time and Expenses for each auditor and over Internal Audit Activity.

Collaboration with our business users or engagement clients to give updates on on-going implementations of audit recommendations.

Dispatching and receipt of feedback from audit clients of questionnaires via the audit solution.

Monitoring and managing the execution of remediation activities by audit clients.

Pentana provides my organization with a 360 degree view of all units. We are able to manage risks with unlimed risk registers and develop an in-depth insight of operations through analytics and reporting.

There's nothing to dislike about Pentana.

Ideagen is making it possible for my organization to stay on top of its audits. With many different regulations to comply with, it is easy to get overwhelmed, however Pentana enables us to stay on track and ensure that metrics are met.

The collaborative nature of the software and various users having access to the system at multiple locations

Unable to keep track of reviewed reports like what is offered by Microsoft Word.

Being able to follow-up on audit recommendations.

Pentana gives the flexibility to handle different types of audit projects. To be able to create templates for each of the types of projects in order to easily set up and focus more on the work and less on the administrative pieces.

I dislike the time reporting function. I wish that it would give summary reports. It is not that functional and causes double work.

Consistency within audit projects between various audit staff.

Audit Planning, Audit Scheduling, Audit Management, Audit Work, Template Designer, Time and Expense Recording, Recommendation and Questionnaire Tracking.

I Can't think of anything in particular.

Audit Planning, Audit Scheduling, Audit Management, Audit Work, Template Designer, Time and Expense Recording and Recommendation Tracking.