http://www.bpsinc.com Enterprise Risk Management Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:48:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New Company to Deliver a Wider Offering of GRC Solutions to the Utility, Financial and Healthcare Markets. Toronto, Canada. BPS (Business Propulsion Systems Inc.) (see www.bpsinc.com) and Resolver Inc. (see www.resolver.ca) today announced a merger which took effect on January 1, 2010 to form BPS Resolver Inc. This merger brings together two ... http://www.bpsinc.com/2010/01/grc-software-firms-resolver-and-bps-merge-to-offer-expanded-risk-management-solutions/ What? Audits are an important and essential part of managing risk and control effectiveness within an organization. Audit Management Software simplifies the entire auditing process, from planning and scheduling to performing the audit. What Audit Management Software offers you is an easy way to perform the most challenging and ... http://www.bpsinc.com/2009/10/audit-management-software-the-what-the-why-and-the-where/ Since the release of the EU's draft Alternative Investment Fund Manager Directive earlier this year, many Hedge Funds have been speaking out about the new legislation and the potential effects on the industry. At present, the Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM), of which Hedge Funds come under, are regulated predominantly by ... http://www.bpsinc.com/2009/10/implications-of-the-investment-fund-manager-directive/ Audit Management is a vital part of any organisation’s operations.  Normally, if your organisation requires an internal audit, then your Audit team will ensure that it is successfully completed.  But in companies large and small, auditing is a long, sometime unwieldy, multi-faceted task and requires appropriately trained individuals with skills ... http://www.bpsinc.com/2009/10/5-reasons-you-need-audit-management-software/ Toronto, Canada – August 1st, 2009 – BPS Inc., a leading provider of software solutions for enterprise governance, risk, compliance (GRC), and internal audit,  and TOTVS Financial Services, the leading provider of asset management systems and services in Latin America,  today announced an exclusive distribution agreement to provide the ... http://www.bpsinc.com/2009/09/bps-and-totvs-sign-partnership-agreement/ BPS produces a GRC software product. We define the functionality in simple terms by saying we do Internal Audit, Compliance and Operational Risk.  Put even more simply, we are good at collecting and managing risk and control information.  A number of companies have great applications along ... http://www.bpsinc.com/2009/09/four-things-to-consider-when-looking-at-audit-software/ Recently we have received some positive and very helpful feedback on our central risk library and modeling capability. Most of our customers choose BPS in part because they recognize our investment in what we call our Risk Management Library (RML). This facility is the central point ... http://www.bpsinc.com/2009/07/risk-management-library-helps-clients-move-to-integrated-controls-framework/ Implementing Software for Auditors a developer's point of view I’m a software engineer. As such I spend a lot of time working with and thinking about the end users of the software that I am implementing. At BPS many of my end clients are auditors. Auditors are a very unique group of ... http://www.bpsinc.com/2009/06/auditsoftware/ Toronto, Canada – May 15, 2009 – BPS Inc.,  a leading provider of software solutions for enterprise governance, risk, compliance (GRC), and internal audit,  and SymSure Limited, a solutions and services provider of risk and controls monitoring,  today announced a joint venture to provide an integrated GRC platform. The BPS Suite™ ... http://www.bpsinc.com/2009/05/bps-and-symsure-announce-partnership-to-offer-integrated-grc-platform-and-continuous-controls-monitoring/ We have noticed that several of our clients have begun to implement an approach to Internal Audit based on an assessment of the predominant risks present in the enterprise. This is known in the industry as "Risk Based Auditing". This blog post serves to highlight some of the pertinent issues ... http://www.bpsinc.com/2009/05/risk-based-auditing/