ASSESS Software
Our secure, web-based SaaS application, hosted at a top-tier Canadian data centre is used to build and manage repeating assessments, and offers:
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Create and configure custom libraries (taxonomies) - (risks, controls, operations, models, etc)
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Ethidex content is available as libraries
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Add data attributes to libraries
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Design assessments, using libraries
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Configure assessment workflows
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Assign users
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Perform assessments, distributed across teams
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Report results
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Configure settings
Libraries
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Add, configure and populate custom libraries (risk, control, collect and default structures)
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Libraries can capture: organization structures, operations, objectives, models, technology, etc
Ethidex content libraries
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Subscribe to ethidex module content libraries. control documents and control objectives
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Search across documents for citation coverage
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Review updates as they are published
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Configure libraries to support assessments: exclude items, set review frequencies, align to policies etc
Library document attributes
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Design attributes and add them to libraries, gathering additional data
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Attributes can capture: critical "Y/N", KRI measures, mapping to other library documents, etc
Assessment design
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Choose an assessment name
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Identify the libraries to be used in the assessment, and the order
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Define assessment selection choices and scoring
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Choose documents from the identified libraries and link them to create the detailed assessment structure
Workflows
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Design the desired workflow, eg Assessor followed by Reviewer.
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Select the designed workflow to use in the assessment.
Create / Update Assessments
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Create a new assessment set from the assessment design
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Decide what to bring forward from the previous assessment set
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Update an assessment set with changes from library documents, during assessment performance
Assign users
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Assign performers to each of the workflow roles and documents, for the assessment set.
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Make re-assignment during the assessment.
Manage assessment sets
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Mark assessment sets as live, when ready to start
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Send a kick off email to all performers when ready to start
Perform Assessment
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Email invite sent to performers
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Performers see only the work assigned to them
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"To-do" allows performers to focus on completing outstanding work
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Where an assessor and reviewer is configured, work can be moved to the reviewer and then returned to the assessor, if needed, with comments
Reporting
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Results reporting of the assessment with roll up
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Results dashboard provides summary
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Status dashboard provides completion status, supporting management
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Data can be exported to excel
Settings
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Roles control who can see what in the application
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System Administrator assigns roles to system users
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System Administrator controls data import / export
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System Administrator controls other application settings
