REPORT APPROVAL WORKFLOW (BiRAW)

PRODUCT OVERVIEW

Software By Design's Reject and Approval Workflow provides clients with a straightforward process for the monitoring of data acquisition, report generation, and report delivery. These features are available through a single user interface that assures users with accurate data and report/delivery controls.

BENEFITS

• Improve the efficiency of the reject and approval process by automatically generating and transmitting deliverables to optimize the level of administrative support.
• Ensure a high-level of data consistency in a single repository for all deliverables, including standard, ad-hoc, and Web.
• Through a variety of delivery channels, including Email, FTP, and via a portal, enable client deliverables.
• Automate the generation, distribution, and tracking of report deliverables according to a defined schedule.
• Implement a common integrated approach to the validation and preparation of reporting data.
• In the verification of data, increase effectiveness and decrease risks by eliminating duplication and by minimizing manual interventions.
• Introduce the visibility of both the control measures and the report status.
• Improve the responsibility for data integrity and quality by ensuring the approval steps are integrated within source systems and by providing an audit trail on the data streams.
• Improve the management of data alterations by ensuring that changes are agreed upon and approved in the source systems and by highlighting the impact and degree of changes automatically in the dashboard.
• Introduce the controls to mitigate the risk of data being provided to the client without the proper notes and disclosures.
• Provide a single interface by which all parties can view the same deliverables as the client.

ARCHITECTURE
The Software By Design solution leverages the IBM Cognos 8 SDK which allows us to inherit valuable components such as the Report Generation Engine, entitlements, auditing, alerts, and delivery.