Process certification management
First Claim
1. A system for certifying a business process, the system comprising:
- a storage device configured to store information pertaining to a business process, the business process being associated with one or more risks; and
at least one server in communication with the storage device, the at least one server configured to;
associate a certification status with the business process, the certification status indicating whether an auditor has certified that the business process includes adequate risk controls for mitigating the one or more risks;
communicate a request to certify the business process to the auditor;
in response to the request, receive a message from the auditor, the message indicating that the business process includes adequate risk controls for mitigating the one or more risks; and
modify the certification status based on the message.
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Abstract
A system certifying a business process includes a business process associated with a user, and a process certification manager for associating a certification status with the business process and for communicating a certification request to the user. The process certification manager receives messages from the user and modifies the certification status in response. The process certification manager displays the business process and its associated certification status. The business process may include a number of subprocesses each associated with a different users. The process certification manager associates a certification status with each of the subprocesses and communicates a certification request to each of the users, and modifies the certification status of the subprocesses in response to messages from the users. The process certification manager displays the business process and its associated certification status in a first view and the subprocesses and their associated approval statuses in a second view.
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25 Claims
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1. A system for certifying a business process, the system comprising:
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a storage device configured to store information pertaining to a business process, the business process being associated with one or more risks; and at least one server in communication with the storage device, the at least one server configured to; associate a certification status with the business process, the certification status indicating whether an auditor has certified that the business process includes adequate risk controls for mitigating the one or more risks; communicate a request to certify the business process to the auditor; in response to the request, receive a message from the auditor, the message indicating that the business process includes adequate risk controls for mitigating the one or more risks; and modify the certification status based on the message. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method performed by a computer system for certifying a business process, the method comprising:
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associating, by the computer system, a business process with one or more risks; associating, by the computer system, a certification status with the business process, the certification status indicating whether an auditor has certified that the business process includes adequate risk controls for mitigating the one or more risks; communicating, by the computer system, a request to certify the business process to the auditor; in response to the request, receiving, at the computer system, a message from the auditor, the message indicating that the business process includes adequate risk controls for mitigating the one or more risks; and modifying, by the computer system, the certification status based on the message. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon program code executable by a computer system, the program code comprising:
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code that causes the computer system to associate a business process with one or more risks; code that causes the computer system to associate a certification status with the business process, the certification status indicating whether an auditor has certified that the business process includes adequate risk controls for mitigating the one or more risks; code that causes the computer system to communicate a request to certify the business process to the auditor; code that causes the computer system to receive a message from the auditor in response to the request, the message indicating that the business process includes adequate risk controls for mitigating the one or more risks; and code that causes the computer system to modify the certification status based on the message.
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