Pentana 5.1 released by Ideagen

Ideagen updated their audit automation software, Pentana 5.1. The updated platform comes with further enhancements to the core internal audit functions, an enhanced Windows and Web user experience and enterprise risk management capability.

Ben Dorks, Chief Customer Officer at Ideagen, said: “With each release of Pentana we seek to further address the needs of internal audit operations management. This includes tasks aligning to planning and scoping, project management, scheduling and resource allocation, time management, work paper and evidence management and tasking and action management.

“Pentana 5.1 is no exception to this discipline and introduces several core improvements to improve functionality and new home and audit screen dashboards and widgets to modernize the product and enhance user experience at the same time.”

Ideagen Pentana 5.1 introduces integrated time recording and several other core improvements including entity level reviews and the handling of reviews and points.

For users, there are also new home and audit screen dashboards and widgets for easier access to key information while several enhancements have also been made to the browser interface. Multiple risk impacts can now be recorded, with Pentana 5.1 allowing for Risk Impact to be measured in terms of factor such as “Financial”, “Reputational”, “Safety”.