The Blog

Find Answers to your questions
Data Privacy for Vendor Portals

Data Privacy is one of the leading concerns that customers express when setting up a Vendor Portal. Vendor Portals transfer sensitive data from buyers to suppliers and back again. Ultimately, each customer must make some degree of internal risk-reward calculation to determine if the time-money saving benefits of a Vendor Portal will outweigh the data privacy and security concerns that a SaaS tool introduces. Vendor Portals transfer...

Read More
SSAE 16 - The New Standard in Town

SSAE 16 certification for Vendor Portals - There is a new standard in town. In April 2010, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) created a new standard for in-depth audits of third-party service organizations. This new certification was called the Statement on Standards of Attestation Engagements Number 16 or SSAE16. It replaced the Statement on Auditing Standards Number 70 or SaS70. The AICPA felt it...

Read More