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How Do Audit Software Products Fit In?

Generalized audit software (GAS) is made up of programs that extract data from various production data sets, make various computations, and issue the results in a report format. GAS products are different from CA Auditor in that they analyze and verify applications software data where CA Auditor analyzes programs and parameters of the operating system.

GAS products generally can:

• Search files for statistical purposes
• Extract specific data from a file
• Compare files for discrepancies
• Select data samples and evaluate the results
• Produce files and audit reports

Software products such as CA PanAudit Plus, CA IDMS Database Culprit Option, and VM:Webgateway are excellent examples of these types of products. Each provides calculating capabilities, sampling capabilities, and a variety of audit reports that provide detailed information on the contents of application data files.

You can use audit software products with CA Auditor to perform the most comprehensive systems review possible. Use CA Auditor to perform a comprehensive review of the operating system environment and GAS products to review the contents of application data sets.