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Application Audit and Certification

Application is the heartbeat of the organization today. Every business or government function runs via the collective performance of its supportive applications. IDCA’s application audit ensures that an application actually does perform as intended and remain as secure, resilient, efficient, and reliable as possible. As, it is essential for an organization to ensure that the delivery of the application actually match the requirements of the business.

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IDCA’s Application Audits render complete inspection, report, recommendation and certification of organizations’ information application technology delivery claims and capabilities. IDCA application audit and assessments involved full inspection and certification of all the 7 efficacies as outlined by the Infinity Paradigm®, and the actual application needs to encompass the complete examination of the Application layer.
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Application Layer Components

Application is the backbone of a modern-day organization’s prosperity and functionality. To provide these the necessary application functionalities a wide array of elements must be aligned to render the desired outcome. These elements include but are not limited to the application architecture, the actual developed application itself, and the software infrastructure, SOPs, manuals, safety and security guidelines, human resources, vendor alignment, SLAs and OLAs, etc. Provided the extended complexity of today’s applications, with the ever-growing acceptance of new technologies and the dynamic nature of business, it becomes extremely difficult for application architects and managers to project and accommodate for the future requirements of the application and achieve proper balance of capacity, reliability, efficiency, security, and cost-effectively, when and where the end-users demand them at the required AE layers. IDCA’s comprehensive set of audit criteria extend beyond the logical or actual application platforms.

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Application

A set of software services that fulfill organization requirements.

Examples: ERP Application is composed of accounting, payroll, inventory, asset management etc. software services.

The components involved in the Application layer of the AE® include:
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  • Application Architecture
  • Application Availability
  • Application Security
  • Application Integrity
  • Application Efficiency
  • Inputs, Processing and Outputs
  • General Controls
  • Application Reliability and Performance
  • Application Capacity and Maintainability
  • Business Specific Metricsx insertion here.
“Comprehensive, Effective, Detailed and Groundbreaking”
IDCA application audits can be conducted at three (3) distinct phases of the application design, development and maintenance lifecycle:
Phase 1
Design Phase
If the ecosystem, application, IT, cloud or data center has been designed, IDCA can audit the drawings, schematics and design files to highlight all compliance flaws, efficiency gaps and vulnerabilities and provide you a comprehensive report per the findings. Upon completion of the design audit the organization will be graded and rated per IDCA G Levels and applicable certification will be issued.
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Audit Kickoff Workshop

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Stage 2
Design Files Batch Submission

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Stage 3
Design Assessment & Review

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Stage 4
Compliance Analysis

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Stage 5
Report Writing

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Stage 6
Report Submission & Certification

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Stage 7
Report & Certification Workshop

Phase 2
Build Phase
IDCA can audit already developed and built ecosystems, applications, IT, cloud or data center platforms before they become fully commissioned into live production. The audit will ensure lack of inconsistency and discrepancy of the completed project vs the original intents of the design and industry’s best practices per the IDCA standards. Upon completion of the audit the organization will be graded and rated per IDCA G Levels and applicable certification will be issued.
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Stage 1
Audit Kickoff Workshop

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Stage 2
Design and Build Documentation Batch Submission

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Stage 3
On-site Audit & Assessment

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Stage 4
Compliance Analysis

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Stage 5
Report Writing

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Stage 6
Report Submission & Certification

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Stage 7
Report & Certification Workshop

Phase 3
Operations Phase
IDCA audits can be conducted while live operations are underway to assess the true capabilities of the application IT, cloud, or data center and the entire application ecosystem. This exercise will ensure that all probably operational flaws, downtimes, inefficiencies and hurdles to be identified and highlighted. Upon completion of the audit the organization will be graded and rated per IDCA G Levels and applicable certification will be issued.
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Stage 1
Audit Kickoff Workshop

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Stage 2
Design and Build Documentation Batch Submission

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On-site Audit & Assessment

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Compliance Analysis

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Report Writing

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Report Submission & Certification

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Report & Certification Workshop

Addressing the complexities of the Application

When thinking of the prevailing next-generation IDCA application audit and certification, answering some of the below questions can shed light into the immediate benefit for the application stakeholder:

How can you slash your IT OpEx by over 25% by improving the application?

Can your application actually deliver the end-user needs?

Is your application architecture and infrastructure ideal for your specific business needs?

Is your application efficient?

Is your application secure enough?

What are the true availability and reliability facts about your software infrastructure?

Does your application architecture provide you the right capacity and control for the coming years?

How can you improve your application documentation such as SOPs, policies and manuals?

Are your application components technologically correct?

Is your application future-proof?

Are you certified?

What is your ESR score?

Who's the auditor?Application Certified Auditor (APCA)®

At the midst of the IT, application, data center, big data, and cloud management boom, official IDCA Application Certified Auditors (APCAs)® play a critical role in the coming age. For the application and software development community, ensuring that the application is in alignment to the business continuity, and business needs and maintaining efficiency, security, safety, capacity, resilience, innovation and operability are key. An APCA® has traveled a long and extensive journey, fulfilling requirements after requirement to reach the stage of being able to assess and certify mission critical application infrastructures and platforms. All APCA®s have become a Application Authority (APA)®, which means they are industry veterans, with many years of in-depth expertise, successfully completed all IDCA education and certification ladder; have contributed significantly to the application and software industry and community; and on top of all the above, have completed the rigid APCA® program. The APCA® program is a highly certified auditors ideal for handling most complex software industry’s compliance needs, only available to certified APAs.

ReportsComprehensive, detailed, informative, logical, educating, cost-saving and essential!

Due to its universally effective approach, IDCA audit reports are highly regarded for their comprehensiveness, details, and effectiveness for the organization under assessment. The audit reports typically become part of the organization’s educational process in order to educate and inform the application operations, maintenance, design and implementation staff to understand the mistakes, flaws and shortfalls and ensure such will not repeat themselves in the future. In addition, the report becomes a reference point for upcoming projects and a benchmark of compliance matrix for minimizing risks and non-compliances in the future. The application undergoing IDCA audit can expect to receive grade certification and classification per every high-level component of its infrastructure, i.e. SFI G1, Site G2, and G3. The report will also include the results of measurements and scans in accordance to IDCA.

Application AuditChoose the right Audit for your Application

IDCA provides audit services for your Application based on the seven efficacies of the Infinity Paradigm. Please select the right audit for your Application below:

APPLICATIONSecurity Audit and Certification

Application security breaches are the main cybersecurity root-causes of a critical breach to organizations processes and hurdle to business sustainability. IDCA’s application security audit and certification process ensures that there are no security loopholes or vulnerabilities.

APPLICATIONResilience Audit and Certification

Application resilience is the application’s ability to recover from disaster as efficiently as possible. IDCA’s resilience audit and certification process will ensure the optimization of application reliability and imbedded resilience.

APPLICATIONAvailability Audit and Certification

Availability of an application denotes to its capability in maintaining the application will always serve organization needs without downtime or failure. IDCA’s availability audit and certification process will ensure the holistic and maximization of the application’s availability.

APPLICATIONEfficiency Audit and Certification

The efficiency of an application is highly vital as it denotes to the resources that are spent on the application. IDCA’s efficiency audit and certification process ensures that the application runs as efficiently in order to ensure maximum output with minimum TCO possible.

APPLICATIONOperation Audit and Certification

Application operation denotes to the management and oversee of the application. IDCA’s operation audit and certification ensures the application runs as smoothly with the correct oversight and management.

APPLICATIONCapacity Audit and Certification

Application capacity is the application’s ability to respond to issues as well as performing as optimally as possible. IDCA’s efficiency audit and certification process ensures that the application runs as smoothly as possible whilst maintaining safe capacity.

APPLICATIONInnovation Audit and Certification

Analyze the measure of effective creativity and promotion of innovation in selection of technologies, modern in approach, systems and methodologies that make the data center operationally conducive, cost-effective, reliable, safe to the assets, stakeholders and the environment in design, component selection, implementation and operation.

Why IDCA?“Cutting-edge, infrastructure and operation enabling, educating, assuring.”

IDCA is the first organization in the world that developed the notion of the Application Ecosystem (AE)®. Having a solid, modern and comprehensive approach that validates both the logical as well as physical and actual application ecosystem components, layers, efficacies, and disciplines is the cornerstone that all application providers and stakeholders of the application and software are in-line with the true disciplines of the industry. IDCA has pioneered, developed standards and educated professionals on the notion of application-centric infrastructures and the Application Ecosystem (AE). Therefore, it is an absolute advantage and invaluable resolution to follow IDCA’s application audit, assessment and certification guidelines.

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