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The stories below are snippets of events we think are worth mentioning.
The stories below are snippets of events we think are worth mentioning.
Alberta Health Services improve efficiency with Symbiant Tracker
Alberta Health Services the Canadian government Health board have chosen Symbiant Tracker for Internal Audit Action Tracking and to improve their statutory government reporting requirements. Trackers extensive reporting capabilities were exactly what they needed to improve their current system and become compliant with government requirements. The previous spreadsheet based method had become un-manageable and very expensive to run. A perfect example of spend a little, save a lot.
MTN Africa’s Largest Mobile Phone Company Selects Symbiant Tracker
MTN who are Africa’s largest mobile network provider have selected Symbiant Tracker to improve Internal Audit Action Tracking. This is another example of how businesses in Africa are replacing in-effective make-shift solutions such as spreadsheets to improve internal controls and efficiency.
World Famous Department Store Chooses Symbiant Risk Suite
Famous for having Royal as well as some of the Worlds wealthiest people as customers this major London department store has selected Symbiant Risk Suite for the group's internal Risk Management Software solution. The company who have a reputation for quality and customer satisfaction look for the same virtues in their suppliers and the products they choose.
Yorkshire Building Society Chooses Risk Suite
After a very lengthy review process the Yorkshire Building Society have selected Symbiant Risk Suite as their new Risk Management Solution. They choose Risk Suite as it offered all the features a modern bank needs and allows them to look forward at possible future risks. This was one of the issues that caused the near collapse of the western banking system.
United National Bank Ltd selects Risk Suite
The London and Bradford based Pakistani owned United National Bank has selected Risk Suite for their Risk Management Solution.
National Bank of Malawi chooses Risk Suite
The National Bank of Malawi has purchased a license for Symbiant Risk Suite, this is a major step forward for African banks who may have learnt from the mistakes the western banks have made recently. The banks will use Risk Suite to help them meet their SOX requirements.
Scapa Group plc Chooses Risk Suite and Tracker
Scapa Group has selected Risk Suite and Tracker for their Risk Management and Internal Audit Solutions. Scapa are a manufacturer of a wide variety of standard and custom-engineered adhesive films and tape.
Symbiant Tracker Version 4 Launched
With the feedback and comments we have received from The Bank of England and other Tracker users Symbiant Tracker v4 has many new features including the ability for an issue to have many parts. This latest version of Tracker is a total re-write on previous versions and has more flexibility and functionality on previous versions. We have taken on board all users comments and created a solution to fit all industries and business models. The many to many to many relationships allows a single issue to have multiple recommendations and each recommendation to have many actions, each assigned to different assignees with different action by dates. See http://www.symtrack.com/docs for an overview.
New Version of Risk Suite Launched
From our users feedback we have added new requested features and released Risk Suite version 2. To see what is new see the overview document at http://www.symrisk.com/docs
Redrow Group PLC chooses Risk Suite
Redrow the Builders have selected Risk Suite as their Risk Management solution. Redrow previously used a top 5 accountants to manage the companies risks but decided doing it in house would save the company hundreds of thousands of pounds. They say Risk Suite will pay for itself in the first few months.
Maitland Group chooses Risk Suite
After a long tender process Maitland Group who offers Legal Advisory, Trust and Corporate Services, Asset Management and Fund Services have chosen Risk Suite. Maitland has offices throughout Europe and South Africa will be using Risk Suite to bring all the different departments Risk management under one umbrella and unify the companies risk management.
University use Risk Suite as Teaching Tool
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa are using Risk Suite as a teaching tool to show students how risk management should be done correctly. The university supplies students for major firms in the area including, Sanlam and Old mutual insurers. Price Waterhouse Coopers, Ernst and Young as well as KPMG.
Partnership Assurance Adds Risk Suite to Tracker
Partnership Assurance who are one of the UK’s leading providers of financial products who last year purchased a Symbiant Tracker license have now purchased a license for Risk Suite. They were so impressed with Tracker that Risk Suite already had the edge when they needed a Risk Management solution. They already knew our service and products were second to non.
Symbiant Tracker Version 3 Launched
With a user base of over 200 Tracker has been well received by the business community world-wide and we have had significant feedback from our clients suggesting many improvements. Symbiant Tracker v3 includes all the “nice to haves” and modifications our users have asked for keeping it well in front of similar products on the market.
Washington State Department of Revenues (IRS) opts for Tracker
The United States Department of Revenue in Washington have chosen Symbiant Tracker as their internal audit tacking solution. Being a US government department they have a policy to buy from US based companies. Symbiant Tracker is the first non-USA package they have ever purchased.
Nordben Life & Pension Insurance Chooses Risk Suite
Nordben Life & Pension Insurance the Guernsey based insurance company have selected Symbiant Risk Suite as their Risk Management Solution. Their accountants who are one of the big 5 recommended our solution as the best offering for value and features.
The NHS Information Centre opts for Risk Suite
Symbiant Risk Suite has been chosen has the Risk management Solution for The NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care. They said our solutions won on price, flexibility and comprehensiveness. It wasn’t a hard decision to make, Risk Suite offers much more and costs a great deal less than the other solutions. See http://www.symrisk.com
ICAEW Endorse Risk Suite and Tracker
Europe’s largest professional accountancy body, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) endorse Symbiant Risk Suite and Tracker. This is the first time the institute have endorsed a product which reflects the quality of the products and benefits the offer to the companies that use them. The institute will also be using the solutions for themselves.
Risk Suite General Launch
After 12 month in the field testing by various companies including KPMG LLP, Symbiant Risk Suite is launched for general release. User feedback has been substantial and the final released model meets everyone’s approval as a ground breaking solution. Further development will continue as new users give more feedback. See http://www.symrisk.com
Symbiant Risk Suite Launched
Symbiant Risk Suite version 1 has been released for pilots. Risk Suite has been in development for 2 years to fill the void in the risk software market for an affordable, easy to use and comprehensive risk management solution. Like Symbiant Tracker, Risk Suite is web based and includes all the elements required for companies to have a robust risk management ethos. As with Tracker the solution will evolve from user feedback. See http://www.symrisk.com
Symbiant Tracker Launched
Symbiant have launched the world’s first web based action tracking solution specifically for internal Audit. Working with guidance from KPMG’s Internal Audit department Tracker allows internal audit departments to track issue actions and recommendation through to completion. The tool gives ownership of actions with action by dates and sends automated emails to the relevant parties. Auditees keep the action progress updated so IA can see the current status of issues at all times. Tracker is designed to save Internal Audit departments time chasing issues and make them a lot more effective and implementing new issues. See http://www.symtrack.com