Programs

Programs Module

This page contains information to assist our customers with utilizing the Programs module in RegScale. It describes what it is, why you would use it, the benefits, and provides instructions on getting started.

What is it?

A program is a coordinated set of activities or projects aimed at achieving strategic objectives and delivering value to stakeholders. Common synonyms for programs might include:

• Mission Areas
• Business Units
• Initiatives

Why would you use it?

Programs are commonly used to coordinate collections of projects/activities and for risk modeling. There are many reasons to perform program management which include:

• Ensuring strategic alignment
• Optimizing resource utilization
• Enhancing risk management
• Improving stakeholder satisfaction
• Achieving business outcomes

How do I use it?

The programs module in RegScale Community Edition (CE) provides a number of key features that are useful in managing a robust program, to include:

• Managing program capabilities and objectives
• Performing complex risk modeling and assessments
• Aligning supporting technologies and platforms to capabilities
• Performing risk rollups across programs and business units
• Real-time tracking and dashboards
• Automation via our Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
• Single pane of glass assignment tracking via our work bench
• Automated workflows for review and approval
• Interactive timeline builder
• Social collaboration via our News Feed (LinkedIn for Compliance) and real-time commenting system
• Secure document management with our file upload and encryption system
• Audit history including every view, update, print, email, etc.
• Dashboards, Status Boards, and Score Cards to visualize progress in real-time

For our Enterprise Edition (EE) customers, you get all the great features above, plus we add:

• Ability to create custom fields to extend the schema and build out customer specific data entry forms
• Integration with Microsoft Teams and Slack for real-time collaboration
• Ability to host a multi-tenant version to segregate data by site, customer, organization, etc. to run many different project management programs with complete data isolation from a single installation
• Real-time interactive dashboard with Microsoft PowerBI AddOn