Protiviti, (www.protiviti.com ), a global business consulting and internal audit firm, has recently released the latest version of its Governance Portal, an enterprise governance, risk and compliance software platform that allows companies to address multiple GRC objectives.

The updated Governance Portal enhances multilingual capabilities that facilitate execution of a uniform GRC strategy across multinational companies. The updated Governance Portal also offers advanced scheduling and simplified reporting. These key new features allow customers to effectively allocate resources and improve their operational efficiency while providing meaningful, consolidated information for management’s decision making.

While individual language translations have been available in previous versions of the Governance Portal for some time, this latest release immediately lets users access the same Governance Portal instance in their local language, ensuring uniform communication and consolidated reporting across an international user community. Currently supported languages include Dutch, English, French, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. In addition, the Governance Portal now offers a simplified translation capability that enables Protiviti to quickly add additional languages or business terms.

Additional Features

The Governance Portal now offers advanced scheduling making it easy for clients to create the audit plan, establish budgeted hours and expenses, and assign auditors based on their availability. These capabilities are provided through an easy-to-use interface that consolidates all of this information into a single calendar view that highlights over or under allocated audits. Consistent with the theme to provide clients with a single internationalized platform, the feature also allows for definition of different work days and weeks, so that potential scheduling conflicts can be easily identified based on individual work arrangements and regional settings, thereby increasing productivity.

The latest version of the Governance Portal also extends its reach into the GRC ecosystem, introducing simplified reporting views that enable clients to leverage their existing data warehousing tools and combine results from third-party ERP systems in order to consolidate GRC and create performance dashboards.