CONCOURSE

Concourse is a collaboration and control environment for all spreadsheet users involved in the creation, maintenance and auditing of critical spreadsheets. What makes Concourse unique is its focus on the collaborative process between spreadsheet users and audit and risk teams. Its easy to use features encourage good project habits, like ensuring that users are working on the latest version of the spreadsheet, while allowing audit and risk teams to maintain control without applying excessive demands. The natural result of implementing Concourse is visibility and control of critical spreadsheets within the organization.

Concourse benefits organizations at both the spreadsheet user and auditor levels. It allows spreadsheet users the familiarity of using Microsoft Excel for their tasks, but the work resides in a flexible environment so audit and risk teams can proactively manage risk and exposure to the organization:

• Facilitates good project habits and improves team collaboration and productivity
• Allows audit and risk teams to maintain control without applying excessive demands
• Provides visibility and control of critical spreadsheets within the organization

Collaborate. Concourse gives project managers easy and clear ways to work together with team members on spreadsheet projects.

• Set up project teams within Concourse
• Assign appropriate roles and tasks to team members
• Send email notifications regarding tasks and status changes

Manage. With Concourse, projects and associated information are stored in a repository according to spreadsheet best practices.

• Repository options: hosted in the cloud by Incisive or reside on a local network or remain on a local computer as designated by company policies
• Controlled access to the repository so only authorized users can establish and maintain access to all project versions

Control. Control features are easy and natural for project members to use.

• Easy-to-track version control so users know they are working with the correct version
• Access to older versions for reference
• Check in/check out process to maintain the integrity of each spreadsheet
• Compare spreadsheets for visibility into what details changed since it was checked out

Report. Concourse offers a wide array of standard reports for better monitoring and visibility including location, last published, owners and more for all spreadsheets in the repository.

Concourse complements other solutions in the Incisive product line, including Xcellerator, the premier spreadsheet analysis application, and Validate, the leading spreadsheet auditing software.

For more information about Concourse, please contact sales@incisive.com.