SoftExpert ERM

Enterprise Risk Management

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    The Challenge

    Organizations are facing unprecedented levels of business complexity, changing geopolitical threats, new regulations and legislation, and increasing shareholder demands. To address these challenges, they are embracing the discipline of enterprise risk management in the planning and assessment of strategic objectives, and the monitoring and reporting on risks associated with those objectives.

    Motivated by the need to gain better insight into their business processes and more transparency throughout the enterprise to understand and control risks and align them with their business strategy, organizations must develop an overall approach to how they define, establish oversight for, manage, and monitor events within their corporate boundaries and with respect to external events.

    The Solution – SoftExpert ERM

    SoftExpert ERM software enables organizations to identify, analyze, evaluate, monitor, and manage their enterprise risks using an integrated approach. It brings together all risk management related data in a single comprehensive environment, including a reusable library of risks and their corresponding controls and assessments, events such as losses and non-conformities, key risk indicators, issues and treatment plans. The workflow feature streamlines the risk assessment process, while risk heat maps enable organizations to set their priorities and make strategic decisions based on risk levels.

    The software serves as the foundation for the company’s enterprise risk management efforts through its ability to unite and support different risk categories – strategic, financial, security, compliance, environmental, assets, products, processes and projects, which is accomplished along with other risk family solutions, such as Operational Risk Management, IT Risk Management and General Compliance Management. SoftExpert ERM was designed to be flexible and configurable. Whether organizations support the risk management standards defined by the PMBOK, ISO 31000, COSO, FERMA or Solvency II, the solution can be easily configured to support company’s unique requirements.

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    Enterprise Risk Management – ERM

    Supporting risk assessment and calculations based on configurable methodologies and formulas, the solution enables companies to obtain a comprehensive view of their risk profile, and prioritize their risk strategies for the best risk/reward outcomes. SoftExpert ERM software offers the latest risk calculation tools for accurately weighing the impact, frequency and results of risk, from the potential to residual stages.

    SoftExpert software for enterprise risk management offers different alternatives to execute risk mitigation and keep risks under an acceptable level. Organizations can rely on a fully integrated project management system to select, implement and monitor risk responses being supported by an entire set of capabilities offered by a robust project management system. Action plans and remediation activities make the process of managing risk response strategies easy, offering simple alternatives for risk treatments.

    The risk management component is provided as a core element of SoftExpert GRC software. Consistent design and integration with GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) functions, including regulatory compliance, internal auditing and strategy planning, ensures that organizations can cost-effectively establish a comprehensive enterprise risk management process. The consistent design and architecture of all SoftExpert applications also provides great flexibility, allowing organizations to start with highly targeted projects and expand the scope to support the multiple requirements of the entire enterprise on a single platform.

    • Process modeling

      Process modeling

    • Risk repository

      Risk repository

    • Risk assessment

      Risk assessment

    • Risk treatment

      Risk treatment

    • Control self-assessment

      Control self-assessment

    • Risk monitoring

      Risk monitoring

    Main Benefits

    Enhances transparency.

    Focuses management attention on risks that matter by expressing disparate risks in a common language.

    Protects and enhances shareholder value.

    Improves decision making, planning and prioritization by comprehensive and structured understanding of business activity, volatility and project opportunity/threat.

    Improves corporate governance.

    Minimizes losses and maximizes gains.

    Supports better structure, reporting, and analysis of risks.

    Improves efficiency by allocating the right amount of resources to mitigating the risk.

    Enable better cost management and risk visibility related to operational activities.

    Effective coordinates regulatory and compliance matters.

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    Features

    Risk repository

    Central repository for risks and opportunities organized by hierarchical categories.

    Identification

    Easy risk identification and association with processes, projects, assets, and scorecards for comprehensive risk transparency.

    Risk assessment

    Streamlined risk assessment process supporting multi-dimensional approaches from several methodologies.

    Action plans

    Investigations tools and remediation plans of potential issues.

    Tests and questionnaires

    Application of regular tests and questionnaires (Control Self-Assessment) promoting internal control effectiveness.

    Portals

    Real-time monitoring of risks, controls, issues and actions through personalized portals.

    Solution Overview

    Solution Overview

    Return on Investment (ROI)

    Traditionally, when enterprise professionals discuss the ROI of an investment, they are mostly thinking of "financial" benefits. Today, organizations must also consider the "non financial" benefits of an investment.

    Financial Benefits include impacts on the organization's budget and finances, e.g., reduced costs or increased revenues.

    Non-Financial Benefits are the so-called "intangible", "soft," or "unquantifiable" benefits of an investment. Unlike financial returns, there may be no widely-accepted metrics for organizations to apply. However, the SoftExpert solutions present undeniable potential for producing positive impacts on business performance and mission results. These include improved customer satisfaction, more precise information and a shorter cycle time.

    ERM projects tend to be driven either by a desire to prevent serious losses that could result from interdependent risks across multiple risk types or by specific regulatory requirements. So, it’s difficult to calculate a generic and direct ROI, besides in a specific case, where the risks and controls used are completely known.

    The SoftExpert Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) solution offers the following benefits:

    Financial ROI:

    Annual Savings

    • Cuts costs as a result of greater efficiency in risk management, mainly cutting down on the duplication of effort in data collection and reporting.
    • Cuts down on losses resulting from risk events.
    • Reduce blanket risk mitigation costs (Insurance Premiums).
    • Reduce cost by applying a single platform to manage a multitude of risk and compliance mandates on an organization-wide scale.
    • Reduce risk response times and ensure action is being taken, monitored and documented.
    • Increases productivity. Optimized business processes of risk identification, risk assessment and treatment implementation will allow your staff to achieve better results in less time.
    • Cuts costs and increases revenue by:
      • Increasing collaboration on data and knowledge.
      • Eliminating manual errors.
      • Facilitating the performing of tasks.
      • Accelerating cycle times for key processes.
      • Reducing time with custom implementations and integrations.
      • More effective using of resources.
      • Reducing scrutiny.

    Investment

    • The investment in SoftExpert ERM will depend upon the business unit size and implementation approach.

    Return on Investment (%)

    • (((Total Annual Savings x n years) – Initial Investment) / Initial Investment) x 100.

    Payback Period (years)

    • Initial Investment / Total Annual Savings.

    Non Financial ROI:

    • Focuses on issues that are important to the business rather than issues in their individual areas.
    • Supports effective use of resources.
    • Helps focus internal audit programme.
    • Establishes a transparent and uniform process at all levels of an organization to manage risk, opportunity and compliance objectives.
    • Adherences to corporate code and compliance regulations.
    • Facilitates appropriate risk/reward decisions at all levels of management.
    • Enhances standardization in risk assessment process by defining a consistent risk criteria and risk appetite.
    • Facilitates the performing of mitigation tasks.

    Featured Resources

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    5 Key Stages to Effective Risk Management

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