Easier than "spreadsheets, email and brute manpower"
Are you suffering from the extra hours of work, high levels of stress
and increased costs caused by managing compliance with "spreadsheets,
email and brute manpower?" While managing compliance is never easy,
using a true compliance solution will be easier than using generic
tools. What you need is something that organizes and manages for
you. Alinion Sentinel for Compliance is a web-based, on-demand
service. Sentinel manages the people, time-tables, tasks and
evidence of a compliance program, allowing you to reduce
workloads and cut your costs.
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Which Industry Mandates Govern Your Business?
Whether you are in Financial, Engineering, Construction, Healthcare,
Medical Device or BioTech, we can make it easier for you to demonstrate
compliance for more than 100 regulatory mandates worldwide including:
Sarbanes-Oxley, BSA, FDA, GMP, CFR, ISO, FERC, GLBA, JCAHO, Turnbull
and HIPPA. Contact us to
discuss the mandates within your industry and how we and
our compliance partners can help you.
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What does Sentinel do?
Alinion Sentinel is a true compliance application that manages the
people, time-tables, tasks, checklists and data of a compliance program. This
data includes the controls, tests, remediation and risks that make
up an organization's compliance processes. Sentinel's dashboard gives
allows you to manage by exception, showing you where the problems
are and the real-time status of remediation.
All compliance data
is gathered and stored in one place as people do their work. No
one gets bogged down digging through email, creating extraneous
and unproductive paperwork or maintaining action item lists. Sentinel
is a collaborative solution that saves time and reduces costs.
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Sentinel's dashboard means you are always in control.
Alinion Sentinel provides you with a dashboard that allows you to
quickly see what tasks and assignments you have delegated and the
status of each. Your staff is alerted to their assigned tasks by
email sent directly from Sentinel. The tasks are viewed right on
their desktop, using their favorite web browser. Additionally,
through Sentinel’s reporting wizards, more than a 1000 different
real-time reports can be defined and those of interest stored on
a user’s dashboard. All reports are created as Adobe PDF files for
easy viewing, printing and distribution. No one gets bogged down
digging through email for reports, creating extraneous and
unproductive paperwork or maintaining action item lists.
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Sentinel saves time by having all compliance data in one place.
Because all compliance data is captured in Sentinel, you save
substantial time and effort in answering questions from management,
the audit or oversight committees, or external auditors and
regulators. Sentinel provides a powerful integrated scheduling
function for all compliance activities. When a compliance activity
is scheduled using Sentinel, all individuals involved receive
communication through e-mail of what is required of them. From that
point on, all communication regarding the status of compliance
assignments, activities, tests, results and any remediation that
might be required, is conducted and documented within Sentinel.
This provides cradle to grave tracking and documentation of
assignments and remediation activities.
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Sentinel's templates drive consistency and efficiency.
All compliance requirements can be easily and consistently
defined as templates using Sentinel’s definitional building
blocks. These templates include controls, tests, risks, work
papers, processes and more. Sentinel’s template approach provides
significant leverage and control, and drives consistency and
efficiency across your compliance program.
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Sentinel links documents to compliance components and avoids version mistakes.
Sentinel provides significant document management capabilities.
Sentinel provides version control of the documents that you place
in the Sentinel library. Library documents can be linked to a process,
control, or test to be used as reference material, directions, etc.
When a document is up-dated in the library, the new version automatically
replaces the linked version. Thus, you can be assured that everyone
relying on that document in their current compliance activities, has
the most recent version.
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Sentinel's work papers replace spreadsheets with standardized data.
Spreadsheets and other documents can be attached to Sentinel.
However, many work papers that are kept in spreadsheets can be
standardized. Sentinel’s “work paper” functionality provides for
a standardized work paper approach and allows individuals involved
with testing to work within Sentinel, with work paper data
captured in a database. Reporting from this data shows the
deficiencies and comments noted in work papers across a wide
range of controls and processes.
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Sentinel is available as a service over the internet
Sentinel-as-a-service is accessible with your favorite browser
– nothing is installed on your computers. Compliance data is
collected using web forms and kept in a central database so that
all users see current information. Sentinel-as-a-service can reduce
your total cost of ownership. Sentinel's service is provided on a
7/24 basis from a SAS70 Type II Certified data center, with no
additional hardware to be purchased, no staff time required to
support application infrastructure, no upfront license fees, no
annual maintenance fees and no asset management or amortization effort.
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Affordable – cut your costs
Let us know which industry you are in, what mandates you have to comply
with, how many staff and outsourced staff is involved and we will show
you how we can make you more efficient, cutting your costs. Clients
tell us that just the hours saved rationalize the ROI. Sentinel is
available for an unlimited number of users, over the internet for a
low monthly service fee. Contact Alinion
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