Comparison Chart

VA1.5

VA2

Status Board and Scoring (rolled-up from Control responses)

Ö

Ö

Status Board and Scoring (rolled-up from Risk assessment)

 

Ö

Unlimited corporate structure depth with on-line roll-up

 

Ö

Fixed additional analysis categories

Ö

Ö

User defined additional analysis categories and text fields

 

Ö

User definable multiple checklist facility

 

Ö

Simplified risk assessment pull-down choice list

Ö

Ö

Qualitative or quantified impact and likelihood assessment

 

Ö

Integrated internal audit testing, time allocation and tracking

 

Ö

‘Global Best Practice’ on-line file association facility

 

Ö

Fully customizable user access rights

Partial

Ö

Integrated authoring and tailoring facility

 

Ö

Template Knowledgebases for quick and easy in-house authoring

 

Ö

Spell-checking of a complete Knowledgebase

 

Ö

Archiving of Assessments (Audit trail)

 

Ö

Customizable column views (e.g. Response, Risk/Exposure etc.)

 

Ö

HTML text formatting (fonts, bold, italics …) and RTF output

 

Ö

Multilingual facility for complete localization (some exceptions)

 

Ö

Year 2000 compliant (assuming hardware and OS Y2K compliance)

VA1.5D

Ö

Technical Specifications

VA1.5

VA2

Windows 3.1, 3.11 (stand-alone or network)

Ö

 

Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4 and Windows 2000 (stand-alone or network)

Partial

Ö

Supported Client/Server databases: Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server, InterBase

 

Ö

KB portability between all supported Client/Server databases

 

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