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Approva Corporation Expands Presence in Europe: Forms Strategic Partnership with Consider Solutions to Market BizRights Software in Europe.


VIENNA, Va. -- Partnership Expands Company's Commitment to European Market

Approva Corporation, the leader in enterprise controls management software, today formed a strategic partnership with Consider Solutions Limited, a leading provider of enterprise software and services that support mission-critical collaborative business processes.

Consider Solutions will be Approva's value-added distributor and will provide sales, installation, training, maintenance, and support for Approva's BizRights(R) software across Europe. Through this arrangement, European companies It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome.

This is a list of companies from the countries in the European Union.
 will have access to the leading enterprise controls management software, along with local service and support. Large global companies subject to U.S. regulatory requirements Regulatory requirements are part of the process of drug discovery and drug development. Regulatory requirements describe what is necessary for a new drug to be approved for marketing in any particular country.  will now have a single source for their Sarbanes-Oxley, Section 404 compliance obligations, while other organizations benefit by being able to proactively improve the effectiveness of their business controls and corporate governance Corporate Governance

The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law.
, high on the European corporate agenda.

"Our partnership with Consider Solutions provides Approva a fast start in Europe with an established entity," said Rick Cobb, vice president of sales at Approva. "Consider has an excellent team, a solid reputation with its clients and a complete focus on customer service. Consider's background in collaborative business processes aligns well with the needs of our market. Companies need to find solutions that enable all parties who engage in the controls process to work together, including line of business managers, process owners The process owner is the person who co-ordinates the various functions and work activities at all levels of a process. This person might have the authority or ability to make changes in the process as required, and manages the entire process cycle to ensure performance , IT security professionals and internal or external audit. By expanding its coverage in Europe, Approva will provide companies with complete enterprise controls management solutions making compliance easier and more collaborative."

"We are excited to form this partnership with Approva Corporation. Consider Solutions already delivers software and services to address collaborative work processes such as risk management and compliance. The extension to business controls and sustainable compliance is a natural evolution," said Dan French, managing director of Consider Solutions. "Approva is very successful in the US and the demand for BizRights is growing rapidly as the market for business controls monitoring software expands. No matter what size an organization is, good governance The terms governance and good governance are increasingly being used in development literature. Governance describes the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are implemented (or not implemented).  is good business. The market in Europe is ready for Approva's enterprise software products and expertise and we look forward to working with Approva as it expands its reach into Europe."

BizRights customers include European companies such as Novartis and Sony Europe, and US companies such as Siemens Westinghouse Siemens Power Generation, Inc (SPGI) is a power generation company based in the United States. Run by the German Siemens AG Corporation, Formerly Siemens Westinghouse, SPGI, was formed by the acquisition of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation by the Siemens power generation , Microsoft, Intel and Colgate-Palmolive. Consider Solutions serves leading companies such as T-Mobile, Siemens, Novartis, UBS UBS Union Bank of Switzerland
UBS United Bible Societies
UBS United Blood Services
UBS United Buying Service
UBS Used Bookstore
UBS University Business Services
UBS Universal Building Society (UK)
UBS Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System
, Daimler Chrysler, Schroders, Reed Elsevier, Quaker Chemical, Atos Origin Atos Origin, SA (Euronext: ATO) is an international IT corporation which operates in 40 countries worldwide, with over 50,000 employees.

The corporate headquarters are located in Paris, France and Zaventem, Belgium.
, Schlumberger and Ogilvy & Mather.

About Approva Corporation

Approva Corporation enables large organizations to transform compliance efforts into competitive advantage. By offering unique, continuous and actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action.

An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it.
 insight into business processes, Approva software provides sustainable compliance and delivers improved control, increased profit and enhanced shareholder confidence. The patent-pending Approva BizRights(R) platform is the first product to allow all corporate compliance stakeholders Stakeholders

All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government.
 - including business managers, auditors, and information technology specialists - to collaboratively manage controls and optimize related processes. BizRights provides continuous, independent visibility into ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer.  activity, producing business-friendly reports that both business and IT managers can act upon. The software correlates user, transaction and system setting data against pre-defined and configurable rules to proactively pinpoint control violations and business exceptions. Valuable risk analysis ranks the impact of potential violations for improved prioritization. With BizRights, companies can resolve issues faster, prevent new control conflicts and create complete audit trails for change management. Global brands such as Colgate-Palmolive, Wrigley, Pratt & Whitney and others are reducing the cost of compliance, minimizing business risk and increasing operational efficiency with Approva solutions. For more information visit us at www.approva.net.

About Consider Solutions

Consider Solutions, based in London, is the leading consulting and software business that helps organisations optimise communication, co-ordination and control in people-centred work processes - an increasingly painful issue in all businesses. Collaborative work processes are central to deals, projects, risks, issues, controls, exceptions, sales opportunities, client relationships, campaigns, brands, partners, channels, suppliers, contracts and information sharing See data conferencing.  across teams and offices. Clients of Consider include such organisations as T-Mobile, Siemens, Novartis, UBS, Daimler Chrysler, Schroders, Reed Elsevier, Quaker Chemical, Atos Origin, Schlumberger and Ogilvy & Mather. For more information visit www.consider.biz biz  
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