Approva Enhances BizRights Role Monitor; Business-Friendly Enhancements for Internal Controls Rule Management.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2003

Approva Corporation, a leading provider of software that helps enterprises manage risk through continuous visibility into automated processes and controls, today announced the release of BizRights(TM) Role Monitor Release 1.6. Role Monitor 1.6 provides additional business-friendly enhancements to their SAP(R)-certified BizRights Role Monitor enterprise software solution. Enhancements to BizRights Role Monitor include support for English language rule creation, individualized Rule Books, additional rule formats, and more flexible reporting, all of which combine to make BizRights(TM) Role Monitor Release 1.6 the easiest and most powerful solution for monitoring roles and authorizations within SAP(R) R/3(R).

Traditionally, analyzing SAP roles and authorizations required intimate knowledge of SAP specific acronyms and codes, making it difficult for business managers and auditors to participate in the process of assessing business risks and compliance. Translating cryptic application lingo is both time consuming and frustrating to non-technical ERP-application users. BizRights Role Monitor Release 1.6 translates SAP acronyms into easy-to-understand and easy-to-use terms, significantly improving business users' ability to manage business risk and internal controls. Now business users can use English text-based searching in addition to the standard acronym-based application language to build monitoring rules that will detect separation of duty conflicts and identify users with access to sensitive transactions and data.

At the heart of BizRights Role Monitor is a business rules workbench and repository that enables centralized change and management of the business monitoring rules. BizRights 1.6 now supports the concept of individual Rule Books that can be organized according to user needs and preferences.

"Developing and maintaining effective internal controls is a business risk issue that demands business user-friendly solutions. By introducing Rule Books into Role Monitor, we've taken a major step toward enabling effective internal controls rule management. And supporting English text-based searching and multiple rule books recognizes the reality of our customers' business environment," says Prashanth ("PV") Boccasam, Approva Chairman and CEO.

About Approva Corporation

Approva Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise software solutions for continuous visibility into ERP-enabled business processes. Continuous visibility is becoming increasingly critical as companies consolidate their ERP instances, upgrade to new versions, and roll-out ERP to more users. And complying with government regulations, such as The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, amplifies the need for companies to increase the frequency, accuracy, and depth of their audit process. In contrast to existing point-in-time tools and manual solutions, Approva BizRights(TM) product suite is the only integrated monitoring business application that is continuous, business-friendly, and proactive. Our business user-oriented solutions help financial executives, business managers, application security, and auditors continuously monitor roles, controls, and sensitive transactions. The end results are greater visibility into business risk, compliance, and efficiency. Approva: Better Visibility. Better Control. For more information visit us at www.approva.net.