Odyssey Blog
Odyssey Information Services celebrates 20 years
Odyssey Information Services, a leader in the IT consulting and services industry, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. Over the last two decades, Odyssey has provided its clients with thousands of highly skilled consultants who have helped them complete technology projects on time and offered solutions to improve business performance. “Much of Odyssey’s success [...]
Improve business performance with multi-metric scorecard analysis
Database and systems performances rely heavily on traditional Queue Theory Analysis to identify performance barriers. While this type of analysis quickly targets short-term obstructions, its methodology focuses only on a single metric during each evaluation cycle and fails to look at the comprehensive environment. A successful alternative to this approach is the scorecard analysis. [...]
What do auditors need during a compliance audit?
Compliance audits evaluate the thoroughness of compliance evidences, security policies, user access controls and risk management procedures. After spending the entire year preparing for the next audit, it’s now time for the auditors to review all the gathered evidences and documentation. The audit process could take up to several weeks or several months to [...]
How to prepare for a compliance audit
Preparing for a compliance audit is a tedious process, but it doesn’t have to be complicated and stressful. The key is to develop processes and procedures that make it easy to gather all required documentation well before the auditor’s visit. After working in a variety of industries that adhere to many regulations – payments, [...]
Don’t panic! 4 steps to turn a compliance audit into a walk in the park
What’s the No. 1 cause of errors when preparing for an audit? Procrastination. Rushing to complete an assignment often leads to panic. And when people panic, they tend to miss something important. For an event as significant as an audit, accidentally omitting critical information can be a very costly mistake, resulting in hefty fines [...]
7 Steps to Create a Reliable Disaster Recovery Plan
Disaster Recovery is a vital part of any Business Continuity Plan. So much so that nearly 95% of companies that experience data loss or downtime for 10 days or more will file for bankruptcy within 12 months and 43% of businesses without a disaster recovery plan will go out of business in the wake [...]