Frequently Asked Questions
Janus Advisory and Consulting Services provides innovative solutions to complex
business challenges. A global strategic partner of Bidvest Advisory Services, we aim to
help organizations to accelerate their digital journey, imbibing technologies of the future
while understanding and learning from the experiences of the past.
Janus partners with organizations across industries and geographies to help them conceptualize, develop and implement digital services to remotely govern, manage and monitor their business. Our Services portfolio includes:
● Digital Transformation Strategy
● IT Systems implementation (Platform as a Services)
● Change Management
● Governance, Risk & Compliance (Assurance as a Service)
● Data Analytics & Insights
Janus partners with organizations across industries and geographies to help them conceptualize, develop and implement digital services to remotely govern, manage and monitor their business. Our Services portfolio includes:
● Digital Transformation Strategy
● IT Systems implementation (Platform as a Services)
● Change Management
● Governance, Risk & Compliance (Assurance as a Service)
● Data Analytics & Insights
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ALICE is a platform that enables you to create an ecosystem of digital services to
govern, manage and monitor your business. She combines intelligent automation with
cognitive services to create a digital workforce to assist those charged with governance,
management and monitoring with real-time and continuous visibility into a business.
She has been architected by cloud infrastructure specialists and security engineers,
built by data scientists and tested by auditors. Her purpose is to accelerate the digital
journey of every function within a business.
To know more about ALICE, click here.
To know more about ALICE, click here.
ALICE applies intelligent automation, data science and human and artificial intelligences
(collectively procedures) to data assets to avail digital services in a continuous and near
real-time manner.
Procedures are designed, built and tested in the ICE Laboratory and then applied to data sets acquired through her Data Pipeline in her to derive outcomes. This is what ALICE calls a digital service.
Digital services remotely connect you to your business and allow you to govern, manage and monitor your business without interruption.
To know more about how ALICE works, click here
Procedures are designed, built and tested in the ICE Laboratory and then applied to data sets acquired through her Data Pipeline in her to derive outcomes. This is what ALICE calls a digital service.
Digital services remotely connect you to your business and allow you to govern, manage and monitor your business without interruption.
To know more about how ALICE works, click here
The implementation and set-up of the ALICE platform is performed in less than a day
and can be performed remotely.
Tenants are automatically provisioned within the ALICE platform in a quick and efficient manner.
Data collection can be scheduled per collector. Consequently, digital services can be consumed on a basis that is fit-for-purpose for the organization.
Upon acquiring the data, ALICE can play back the data collected as well as the outcomes from the procedures instantaneously. This bridges her usefulness from assurance only to contextual operational feedback.
ALICE connects you to your business remotely. The ability to govern, manage and monitor your business remotely is fast becoming a necessity. ALICE represents a digital workforce and can fulfil this remote necessity.
To request for a personalized demo to see how your business can benefit from the power of ALICE, click here
Tenants are automatically provisioned within the ALICE platform in a quick and efficient manner.
Data collection can be scheduled per collector. Consequently, digital services can be consumed on a basis that is fit-for-purpose for the organization.
Upon acquiring the data, ALICE can play back the data collected as well as the outcomes from the procedures instantaneously. This bridges her usefulness from assurance only to contextual operational feedback.
ALICE connects you to your business remotely. The ability to govern, manage and monitor your business remotely is fast becoming a necessity. ALICE represents a digital workforce and can fulfil this remote necessity.
To request for a personalized demo to see how your business can benefit from the power of ALICE, click here
Yes, ALICE can be self-deployed and maintained. However, we suggest that initial deployment be performed with the support of the Janus team.
ALICE treats all her data as sensitive and all data is classified in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679. You may choose in which jurisdiction you require your data to be hosted within the ALICE platform.
The ALICE platform is multi-tenanted. Every record that enters the ALICE platform contains a unique customer code. All communication within ALICE uses APIs which require the unique ALICE organization ID and authentication to operate. All your company data is stored in separate networks and databases with unique encryption keys.
Our security whitepaper outlines the emphasis we place on securing the integrity, confidentiality and availability of the ALICE Platform and the data contained therein.
To request a copy of our security whitepaper is available click here.
The ALICE platform is multi-tenanted. Every record that enters the ALICE platform contains a unique customer code. All communication within ALICE uses APIs which require the unique ALICE organization ID and authentication to operate. All your company data is stored in separate networks and databases with unique encryption keys.
Our security whitepaper outlines the emphasis we place on securing the integrity, confidentiality and availability of the ALICE Platform and the data contained therein.
To request a copy of our security whitepaper is available click here.
Intelligence is embedded throughout the ALICE platform demonstrated, for example, in the following ways:
● Collection: Unstructured data is translated into digital formats prior to ingestion into the ALICE Platform.
● Ingestion & Validation: ALICE provides rejection reasons through the UI or APIs based on the validation rules and/or errors in the processing file. She advises on corrective measures on any validation problems.
● Data Engineering: Data science toolsets are available in the ALICE platform to be applied to the ingested data, for example, machine learning or cognitive computing.
● The ALICE Lab: Embedded within the ALICELab are cognitive services available to be used when creating a digital service. These cognitive services range from:
o Translating human intelligence into a reusable algorithm that can be automated.
o Supervised and/or unsupervised machine learning applied to data sets.
o Historical and/ or contextual data modelling.
o Descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescription analytics.
o Optical character recognition
o Natural language processing
o Anomaly detection
o Fuzzy logic
o Deduplication
● Ingestion & Validation: ALICE provides rejection reasons through the UI or APIs based on the validation rules and/or errors in the processing file. She advises on corrective measures on any validation problems.
● Data Engineering: Data science toolsets are available in the ALICE platform to be applied to the ingested data, for example, machine learning or cognitive computing.
● The ALICE Lab: Embedded within the ALICELab are cognitive services available to be used when creating a digital service. These cognitive services range from:
o Translating human intelligence into a reusable algorithm that can be automated.
o Supervised and/or unsupervised machine learning applied to data sets.
o Historical and/ or contextual data modelling.
o Descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescription analytics.
o Optical character recognition
o Natural language processing
o Anomaly detection
o Fuzzy logic
o Deduplication
For a personalized demo, click here.
Our pricing philosophy is based on the values of partnership and transparency. We are committed to making ALICE affordable to every organization with no hidden costs.
ALICE is aggressively affordable. There is a recurring monthly platform fee that includes over 25 out of the box evaluations that is applicable upon successful deployment of the platform. Should you decide to add additional controls / digital services, we will work with you to achieve a material ROI.
We have resources as well as partnerships in low cost locations to help you with additional custom controls / digital services development should you chose.
For customized pricing, please contact us here.
ALICE is aggressively affordable. There is a recurring monthly platform fee that includes over 25 out of the box evaluations that is applicable upon successful deployment of the platform. Should you decide to add additional controls / digital services, we will work with you to achieve a material ROI.
We have resources as well as partnerships in low cost locations to help you with additional custom controls / digital services development should you chose.
For customized pricing, please contact us here.
ALICE is cloud based and the platform auto scales as required. No additional hardware
is required. Should you require exceptionally high compute power, ALICE can be
provisioned for that. This makes the platform very flexible in its use. Local impact is
limited to the data collection process which is very light on the environment.
ALICE’s development team can provide an alternative such as an API or a BOT.
Evidence can also be manually uploaded into ALICE as a document (jpeg, csv, etc.).
Using her machine learning capabilities, ALICE will interpret the document uploaded
and manage it accordingly.
ALICE audits continuously and in a near real-time manner against various best practice
standards using cognitive automation, ranging from natural language processing, rule
configuration analysis, machine learning to artificial intelligence. Her current skill sets
cover the spectrum of capabilities - from reading a screen print to interpreting a security
policy.
ALICE can execute any audit that has data driven components. She can audit in all
financial, IT, operational, compliance, and regulatory environments.
To see how assurance professionals/function can accelerate their digital journey, contact us
To see how assurance professionals/function can accelerate their digital journey, contact us
Yes, every aspect of the ALICE allows customization. Connectors, ingestions and
validations, transformations, data sets, digital services, procedures can all be tailored to
your needs in the ALICE Platform.
No, definitely not! ALICE will not replace and/or displace technologies and tools you
have already invested in. She will connect to such technologies and tools and
orchestrate the available data to provide a holistic, intelligent and centralized view of the
organization to allow real time, remote monitoring, governance and management of the
business. ALICE should be treated as an enhancement to all currently used
technologies.
ALICE manages the aggregation and/or consolidation of complex and disparate data
structures. She provides high-level dashboard-type reporting (audience-specific) with
drill-down capabilities. Her managed portal allows for customer centricity – providing a
single view of your organization across the environments with the associated risks and
maturities. Upon request custom reports can be built.
Should you choose, API’s can be deployed for flow of data from ALICE into any other reporting, data visualization and GRC tool based on your needs.
Should you choose, API’s can be deployed for flow of data from ALICE into any other reporting, data visualization and GRC tool based on your needs.
No technical competence is required to run ALICE.