Approva Software Offers Business-Friendly Access Right Controls to SAP Application Data within General Motors' Powertrain Unit

VIENNA, Va.--April 11, 2005--Approva(R) Corporation, the leader in enterprise controls management software, today announced that GM Powertrain is using BizRights(R) software for business-friendly access rights management and continuous monitoring of SAP application data, while preserving the stringent controls necessary to meet internal and external compliance mandates.

"At General Motors, the business managers are responsible for the data in our SAP system, and as a systems manager I needed a tool that was intuitive enough to be easily adopted by this group," said Lynn Crooks, manager, SAP Center of Excellence. "Given the complex nature of SAP security administration, it is imperative that these information owners have a business-friendly tool that enables them to request access rights and ensure appropriate controls as needed, without introducing new risk into the system. At the same time, we need to support our compliance efforts by proactively detecting and preventing possible control violations or conflicts that can arise within our ERP application."

GM Powertrain includes Allison Transmission, the leading brand in the design, manufacture and sales of medium- and heavy-duty automatic transmissions for trucks, buses, off-highway, RVs and military vehicles. Approva software is being used within the Allison Transmission group.

Approva BizRights software is the first tool to automatically detect segregation-of-duties issues, prevent new violations from entering production, and continuously monitors users, system settings and transactions to provide visibility into end-to-end business processes such as Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash. It also ships with comprehensive business rules that enable everyone with a stake in corporate compliance to collaborate on controls. Using BizRights, companies are moving beyond reactive, point-in-time audits to continuous monitoring of ERP system activity and business process improvement.

"Good governance and effective compliance is only the beginning," said Prashanth (PV) Boccasam, CEO of Approva. "Companies today are looking to leverage their SOX 404 efforts to improve their business processes and increase efficiency at the same time. Having access to an enterprise controls management system makes it possible to transform compliance efforts into competitive advantage. The Approva BizRights tool is a cross-functional, business-focused application that is essential to creating a sustained compliance framework. It offers the best of both worlds: an intuitive tool that can be easily used by business owners, yet robust enough to become a trusted controls management product within the information technology group."

About Approva Corporation

Approva Corporation enables large organizations to transform compliance efforts into competitive advantage. By offering unique, continuous and actionable 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 -- including business managers, auditors, and information technology specialists -- to collaboratively manage controls and optimize related processes. BizRights provides continuous, independent visibility into ERP 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.