Just one tiny spreadsheet error can snowball into a disaster for your company and for everyone responsible. No organization wants to suffer a material financial loss due to a spreadsheet error. And yet, most firms use ineffective, manual methods to find errors in their critical spreadsheets. There's a highly effective and much more productive way to detect and correct spreadsheet errors!
Topics: spreadsheet errors, manage riskThe consequences of trusting - but not verifying - that your spreadsheet has no errors.
Topics: spreadsheet errors, videosHappy Valentine's Day -- This 15-second video is a humorous, tongue -in-cheek tribute to you and your love affair with Excel!!
Topics: spreadsheet errors, videosWe're super proud to share with you that InsuranceERM has awarded CIMCON Software the Best End-UserComputing Risk Management Solution in its InsuranceERM Awards 2017!! This recognition confirms CIMCON as the industry standard for EUC risk management automation software. Read the whole review here.
Topics: spreadsheet errors, manage risk, awardsTwo recent articles in The Wall Street Journal reignited the debate between spreadsheet defenders and foes. Excel is perennially derided by software marketers selling replacement solutions, yet its usage continues to proliferate. So we need to ask, why are spreadsheets used so often within critical business processes? More often than not, the smart business decision is to keep those spreadsheets in place.
Topics: spreadsheet errors, manage riskCIMCON XLAudit 4.8 enables self-attestation right from Excel making it easier for those in the line of business to fulfill their EUC Risk Management obligations.
Topics: spreadsheet accuracy, risk assessmentEveryone knows it – Spreadsheets and other end-user controlled models and applications are risky. Errors, data loss, deliberate tampering/fraud – these are just a few of the risks.
Topics: spreadsheet controls, euc controlsIs data governance or information governance responsible for managing spreadsheet and other EUC risks? Does IT own it or the line of business? The short answer is: both IT and the line of business have accountability. Here are 3 tips to cooperate and reduce these risks.
Topics: manage excel risk, reduce euc risk, data & information governanceSpreadsheet gurus are often the important caretakers of an organization’s most sensitive information. If so, then this phrase probably gives you some pause. Just because you haven’t yet experienced a spreadsheet “horror story” doesn’t mean that there is not one lurking in your future.
Topics: spreadsheet errors, xl auditNo company is eager to hand out its spreadsheets for public analysis. However, a treasure trove of spreadsheets was made available that allows a new analysis of spreadsheet use by corporations.