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Read the latest EUC governance related news & insights from our experts.
Rethinking The EUC Discovery Process
What does discovery software actually do? EUC discovery software is a type of risk management software that scans for or "discovers" end user computing applications. Simple enough, right? In reality, we should make a subtle, but important change to this definition....
The State of EUC Data Governance
Why is EUC Data Governance Important? Global Regulatory Focus Regulators worldwide have recognized EUC data governance as a key gap in many companies and have placed increased scrutiny in this area. This is especially true in financial services. Regulators are...
Apparity Customers Are Happier Than Ever
Thank you to our customers for rewarding Apparity a Net Promotor Score (NPS) of 67 for 2020. For a second consecutive year, customers have rated their satisfaction with Apparity well above the industry average! In 2019, we began measuring our customer’s satisfaction...
Five Worst Ways to Create an EUC Inventory
The important applications used for financial reporting, trading, liquidity analysis, and so on are known by many phrases and acronyms. They include “End User Computing” (EUC), “User Developed Applications” (UDA), “tools,” “calculators,” or plainly— spreadsheets....
Spreadsheet Whack-a-Mole: The Unwinnable Game
Why are Spreadsheets So Popular? “Excel is the best tool non-programmers have to write code and that is why it wins” wrote Salvatore Sanfilippo, a highly regarded distributed systems engineer, on YCombinator news. The idea for the first spreadsheet program occurred to...
Is Uncle Sam Coming for Your EUCs? You Better Believe It!
The Trump administration is proud of its deregulation endeavors. However, despite this backdrop, Citigroup finds itself subject to a Cease and Desist order from one of its key regulators, which has been concerned “for several years” about the bank’s risk controls. The...