Ideagen Pentana

Ideagen Pentana is a massive, highly respected audit platform that has achieved significant market dominance in Europe and the UK, though it has a strong global footprint. It is built heavily around the specific methodological guidelines published by the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), ensuring that an audit department using Pentana is inherently compliant with global professional standards. It is incredibly strong in the "Risk-Based Audit Planning" phase. At the beginning of the year, an audit director must decide which 50 audits they are going to perform out of a possible 500 areas. Pentana allows the director to pull in risk scores from across the business, map them to an interactive heat map, and mathematically justify exactly why the "Asia Supply Chain" audit was prioritized over the "HR Payroll" audit to the Board of Directors. It also features incredibly deep offline capabilities, which makes it highly favored by manufacturing and retail auditors. If an auditor is sent to inspect a remote factory floor or a deep underground mining operation with absolutely no Wi-Fi, they can download the entire audit program to their laptop, record all their findings and photographic evidence offline, and synchronize it perfectly back to the main server when they return to the hotel.