The leading provider of controls intelligence software, Approva® Corporation, announced that Prashanth 'PV' Boccasam, the company’s CEO, will present at this year’s Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) International conference, taking place July 6th-9th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This annual event is the world's largest gathering of internal auditors, risk and control specialists. A high-powered audience of at least 1,500 professionals from more than 45 countries is expected to be drawn by the 2008 conference.

Together with the head of internal audit of a Fortune 500 company and a renowned expert in the area of continuous auditing and automation, Boccasam will be co-presenting. The session titled, "Implementing Continuous Controls Monitoring as a Corporate-wide Initiative" will take place on Monday, July 7th, 4:15 - 5:30 pm PST. This session is geared towards helping auditors with a governance, risk and compliance mandate to successfully deploy a continuous controls monitoring strategy that several Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies have benefitted from.

With the increased demand for an end-to-end approach to enterprise security and compliance, Innovation in audit automation continues to grow. However, it is imperative to formulate a controls intelligence strategy that delivers the best return on your compliance investments with all the existing automation solutions available in the market. The Approva session at IIA International 2008 will demonstrate real world examples from a Fortune 500 company that has taken continuous controls monitoring to new levels in audit automation.

Approva® Corporation is the leading provider of controls intelligence software and is the industry standard for three of the five largest audit and advisory firms. We automate controls across JD Edwards, Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft and other legacy ERP applications. Global companies such as First Advantage, Discovery Communications, DirecTV, Colgate Palmolive, Bayer, Honeywell, P&G, Pratt & Whitney, Siemens and T-Mobile rely on Approva to reduce compliance risk, increase operational efficiency and flag exceptions to their business controls.