Glosssary

Active reviews are those reviews on which the logged-in user has to take action.

Application is the term used in the previous version of Certification Manager. Data to be reviewed is imported in Certification Manager through applications. Applications are now referred to as Data Sources.

Audit logs include - a history of successful and failed logon attempts. They also track all the user activities in Certification Manager.

Certification Manager reports give you an consolidated view about the actions taken on review processes, the status of active reviews processes, the comments added by stage reviewers on the review objects and the number of reviews reassigned to other reviewers.

Certification Manager roles consist of permissions that can be controlled to allow or deny a user access to perform tasks such as create, delete, enable, disable and so on. Roles also control which pages users can view and the action they can take on those pages.

After a review is approved or denied by the stage reviewer, the Commit icon is displayed next to the review. Click the Commit icon. The review process will then be forwarded to the next stage reviewer.

This status is assigned to a process if review has been completed for that process.

These processes review and certify the rules present in a rule book.

These processes review and certify the owners of compensating controls.

Custom Review Process is created to review the required objects. These processes can be created to review virtually any type of certification process.

These are the roles that are created in Certification Manager. The privileges and permissions of these roles can be modified. These roles can also be deleted from Certification Manager.

Dashboards Library page enables you to add default/custom panels to tabs

Dashboards is page where you can view/Manage Tabs, and view/Manage Panels

The objects to be reviewed in a process are imported in Certification Manager from a data source.

The review processes that are deleted from the system and moved to the recycle bin. These deleted processes can be restored back into the system whenever required or permanently purged from the system.

The processes that are saved with or without configuring all the process parameters. The Draft Mode check box is selected while saving these processes indicating that the review process is in the draft stage and not ready to be executed.

The error logs help you in tracking the errors which have occurred. The Error Logs page displays the error logs.

Infor Certification Manager automates the end-to-end process for reviewing users and roles across ERP systems and other sensitive applications. Certification Manager makes periodic reviews a straightforward exercise by automating the review and approval process for all your applications and providing reports that serve as certification evidence for external auditors.

Notification templates are pre-defined templates used for different types of email notifications. Each notification event has a specific template, but can be customized to suit your requirement.

Email sent to specified users when events occur in Certification Manager. For example, email notifications are sent when a process is created or when an occurrence for that process is complete.

The Preferences page of Certification Manager is the first page you are taken to when you first sign in. This page enables you to personalize your view of the Certification Manager User Interface.

If a user/role process review is generated for an SAP application, the user is the primary review object and the role is the secondary review object.

This role is responsible for creating, editing and scheduling a review process. This role manages all the activities that make up a review process such as deciding what applications should be in scope for the review, how the reviews should be routed, the schedule for the review process, and what the final actions should be when reviews are completed.

This role is responsible for completing the final sign-off on all reviews and certify that the review process is complete. In most organizations, the Internal Audit team or the Internal IT Controls team does the final sign-off.

The processes that are ready to be executed with all the parameters of the process configured and the Draft Mode check box cleared. These processes are displayed on the Ready tab on the Processes page.

This role is responsible for reviewing and taking action on users and roles or users and responsibilities.

These processes review and certify users assigned to roles or responsibilities in the selected ERP application.

If a role/user process review is generated for an SAP application, the role is the primary review object and the user is the secondary review object.

This term refers to the configuration settings of Certification Manager. These settings include - notifications, email settings, server settings, error logs, timeout settings, IRC settings and import user settings.

This role has access to all the menus in Certification Manager and can intervene on behalf of Reviewers to re-assign reviews if needed.

Reviews ssigned to the signed-in user that are currently pending in the Inbox of the previous stage reviewers. These reviews will be displayed on the Reviews page of the signed-in user only after the previous stage reviewer takes action on them.

These processes review and certify roles or responsibilities assigned to users in the selected ERP application.