Every business, regardless of its size and industry, needs to have a financial controls policy in place. Its role is to provide guidance on the keeping of financial accounts and records, payments, ...

As part of a financial statement audit, auditors are required to obtain an understanding of a company's internal control system. Internal control is an interconnected web of policies, procedures, ...

Business Process Management (BPM) encompasses the systematic analysis, design, execution, monitoring and optimisation of organisational processes. It provides a framework that guides continuous ...

Version control woes are still a real issue. Of course, control system integrators try to manage all the content associated with your projects, but sooner or later things can get out of hand and they ...

Change control can bring vast benefits to your IT environment if properly implemented and executed. Read these tips to help improve the process. Image: iStock/Ridofranz When a production environment ...

There are best practices, standard operating procedures and several types of processes in the business world. Processes help maintain order and provide guidelines for a smooth workflow. They are what ...

In process automation, an alarm is defined as an audible and/or visible means of indicating to the operator an equipment malfunction, process deviation, or abnormal condition requiring an operator ...

The convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) with Business Process Management (BPM) is redefining how organisations operate by integrating real-time data from myriad connected devices into ...

In a recent article, I took a critical look at the burgeoning robotic process automation (RPA) market – and found that in many cases, vendor promises were well ahead of functionality for this ...