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EZ-Compliance at Herman Miller - Self Playing Demo

From Trust to Control

Recent development in the international economy has been changing the landscape of bookkeeping rules and regulations. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act drastically changed top managements responsibility and accountability. Guidelines became rules and laws. Violaters now run the risk of imprisonment. Putting trust in procedures 'how things are supposed to happen' is not sufficient anymore. A solid, documented and accessible internal control structure isn't a luxury anymore either.

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Not only accounting personel is affected by new policies and procedures. All employees need for their area of responsibility insight and help in monitoring critical checkpoints. An information system helps greatly in performing automatic checks and monitoring, but ultimately not everything can be automated. Deploying knowledge regarding specific risks and ensuring that procedures to prevent or control these risks are performed consistently, is a task that belongs naturally to the process management space.

Process Management Solutions

Countless analyst reports have been published in the recent past with strong statements about the importance of Business Process Management solutions to reach compliancy. An AMR Study stated "Looming active compliance and enforcement (...) will require Business Process Management (BPM) software for short and long-term compliance."

EZ-Compliance

Over the years, EZ-Process has proved to be a stable and complete solution for Modeling, Publishing and Workflow execution of Business Processes. This experience now has been used to help our customers to reach compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and COSO framework. Business controls can be added - like checkpoints - to processes, to implement internal controls in the context of the process. Multiple checks can be performed automatically, to avoid potential risks and to ensure proper segregation of duties. And so helping employees, giving back to management the time to manage, and impressing auditors.

Customer Quote
"As Herman Miller recently successfully passed their Sarbanes Oxley audit, we are well aware of the many requirements within the Sarbanes Oxley law. One of the requirements is that a company must identify all financial risks inherent to their business process, and then establish appropriate controls in place to address these risks. In reviewing the EZ-Compliance business solution from DynaFlow, I see it would greatly assist us in this task. DynaFlow has done a great job at creating a tool that allows you to not only define graphically your processes, but also associate these with the business controls and risks that govern it. Furthermore, it also provides the ability to associate roles and employees to the process as well. After review, we have found that EZ-Compliance is the best tool on the market to address the dual roles of defining processes and embedding in them the business controls management that insure their accuracy and integrity.

In addition SOX requires a comprehensive 'Separation of Duties' management. Each organization must analyze what corporate applications (business software) employees have access to and scan any potential 'SOD conflicts' . As an example, an employee able to create a Purchase Order should not be allowed to pay it without anyone else being involved in the process. For organizations faced with this SOX requirements or those wishing to establish better controls in that area, DynaFlow provides a powerful and yet ease-to-use 'Separation of Duties' scan. In a real-time manner, it dynamically identify any access conflicts across diverse corporate applications being access by each employee. A true benefit to Herman Miller, by automating this crucial control and helping us to keep our business processes Sarbanes Oxley compliant."

Don Morren, Manager DEM/Process Management, Herman Miller