Tools.pngAlmost every enterprise uses large bundled software suites for managing business processes. Their broad feature set makes them essential for day-to-day operations but they are not designed nor intended to meet the needs of every use case.

 

Auditing is a Specialized Activity

Today’s regulatory environment and growing demand for compliance means enterprises are:

  • conducting more audits
  • auditing more processes
  • demanding audit deficiencies be remediated
  • reporting on the entire process

While many safety, maintenance and asset management software packages include audit and inspection functionality they are not capable of meeting these demands without a great deal of customization. Audits and inspections are so critical to business operations that they justify specialized software.

Focused, Purpose Built and Flexible

Specialized software, like The Checker, has the luxury of focusing on a single business process area and offering more comprehensive functionality and a user experience that is more efficient and effective than the general-purpose suite.

Audit and inspection software is purpose built to help you conduct audits and inspections at the very highest level. Features such as a library for common inspections, notifications and alerts, auto-forwarding completed inspections to supervisors and built in reporting are ready for you to use and instantly make your audit program better.

In addition, specialized audit and inspection software is flexible enough to allow you to maintain or optimize your processes rather than dictate a process based on limited functionality. You want your software to align with how you work and not the other way around.

Look to the Cloud

Never before has the case for best of breed applications been more compelling. The need for specialized software is clear and software-as-a-service applications like The Checker make it financially and operationally viable for any company to pick the world’s best application for every audit and inspection business case.

The Bottom Line

Using software to improve your audit and inspection program doesn’t need to be an either or proposition. Large bundled software suites will continue to be an important part of business operations and specialized software applications like The Checker can supplement while ensuring the demands of regulators and compliance are met. 

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