Oversight Blog

Your ERP system is your system of record and source of truth. You rely on it to control business processes and stop cash leakage. And, you’ve invested...

Accounts payable recovery audits are common practice to identify losses that ERP systems fail to catch. But does a recovery approach use the right yar...

Where is your risk? For most large, global companies with thousands of employees disbursed across locations, this question is hard to answer.

The world of corporate finance is rife with the potential risk for fraud, erroneous payments, and a whole slew of employee behaviors that add up over ...

[in]sight 2018 brought together customers from some of the world’s largest, most innovative companies for Oversight’s first-annual user conference at ...

Watch out for the kids in costumes on the streets of your neighborhood tonight. It’s Halloween, the one night of the year for plenty of treats and a f...

From left: Neha Wood and Manish Singh, Oversight Systems; Todd DiPietro, Fidelity Investments; Kimberly Simpson, Fidelity Investments; Karen Irish, In...

The latest Report to the Nations: 2018 Global Study on Occupational Fraud and Abuse from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners is full of inter...

Duplicate invoice payments occur far more often than most realize, resulting in cash leakage. It’s estimated that companies make duplicate payments at...

Purchase Orders (PO) are a key aspect of maintaining accurate, complete financial records. They serve as an internal control mechanism in the procure-...

You never plan to have inaccurate data in your vendor master file, but it happens over time. Incorrect and unnecessary vendor data builds up, which ca...

What does that mean? Leading analyst firm Gartner recognized Oversight as a “Cool Vendor” in the Procurement and Sourcing Technology report. Of course...

More frequently we read news alerts about cyber attacks. The scary notion is that the cyber world has become a dangerous arena where most anything goe...

I love this article by Tom Fox for Compliance Week. In the piece he states that ‘Tone at the Top’, while effective, is one of the most clichéd terms i...

Recently the Wall Street Journal published an article on how modern companies are using analytics to better assess risk and combat fraud. Although the...

I recently read this article in Computer Weekly about making fictional expense claims a thing of the past, and I enjoyed it.

We loved seeing this Information Week Article by Lisa Morgan on the “8 Reasons to Consider Insights-As-A-Service.” While some of the reasons given are...

When researching what a company is all about online, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the amount of information available. Particularly with a compa...

Some believe that they only have two choices to improve compliance within their disbursement processes:

Whether or not you believe that Valentine’s Day is a money-suck, chances are you’ll buy flowers for that special someone in your life. To cover the ba...

2015 has come to an end. Can you believe it? If you’re like us at Oversight, you’re probably wondering where the year went. It seems like the days wen...

Prospects always want to know why our clients have selected Oversight Insights On Demand™, but rather than just the “why,” it’s nice to show them the ...

It’s that time of year again. You know the one—with the bird and the cinnamon and football. It’s time for friends and family and thankfulness. Unfortu...

On Tuesday, October 27th 2015 Oversight’s CEO Patrick Taylor participated in a joint webinar with the Anti-Fraud collaboration. The webinar featured M...

During the trial process many of our prospects like to ask us this question: “Why did your clients select you?” This is an excellent question, and whi...

For any prospective client, an important step in evaluating the value of Oversight Insights On Demand is taking advantage of our Free Test Drive. This...

Here are three of the most common objections I hear to people declining the FREE trial of our software.

My favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movie is Kindergarten Cop (Twins is a close second). If you haven’t seen the movie (do so immediately), it’s about a...

Working as an account manager for Oversight Systems, I get a lot of questions from new customers who want to know about the system: Where do we start?...

At Oversight, we’re lucky to have a CEO who takes time out of his busy week to contribute regularly to our blog. Being a thought leader in the data an...

At Oversight, we’re always striving to create a better software platform and user experience for our customers. As such, we continually release update...

We hear a lot about “Compliance 2.0” in our industry, but what does this really mean?

Oversight’s commitment to furthering thought leadership in our industry is evident in the white papers, reports, and blog content produced for both cu...

I love LinkedIn. I think the reason I love the platform the most is because it provides access to groups full of like-minded individuals in the data a...

The indictment of Washington state auditor Troy X. Kelley is a case study in the inter-connected activities of an alleged fraudster. As we have discus...

Each week I’ve been aggregating great pieces of thought leadership we’ve put out on the blog that you may have missed. This week we’re focusing on Big...

Did you know that April is Fraud Prevention Month? It snuck up on me too. But it is perfect timing as this week I’m going to highlight some of Oversig...

Since March 2014, Oversight has published nearly 100 blog posts, the topics running the gamut from fraud prevention, ensuring FCPA compliance, busines...

My name is Ashlee and I started with Oversight in January 2014. I spent over a year on the Demand Generation team, driving sales for Oversight Insight...

When I came on board the marketing department at Oversight Systems, a little over a year ago, I was pleasantly surprised by the wealth of information ...

President Ronald Reagan was using an old Russian proverb, in speaking to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev about an arms control treaty when he said ...

2014 has been a great year for Oversight. So great, in fact, that we wanted to highlight 10 moments and relive it all again. What a year!

As Oversight moves forward into the holiday season, we wanted to take a moment to recap our big “wins” for the quarter. It’s been a banner year for Ov...

I recently read a great article from CFO.com about how Chief Financial Officers can generate more value in their offices. The article gives great tact...

As a published author, blogger and thought leader in the fraud risk management arena, I’m in the unique position of seeing global fraud trends across ...

Have you ever looked at the dashboards in your business intelligence tool and thought….what stunning conclusion am I supposed to see?

In this great blog by Syncsort, author Mary Hiers posits that there is a dearth of big data going to waste due to the fact that companies do not have ...

It’s the beginning of the National Football League (NFL) season in the US and the Barclay’s Premier League (BPL) season in England.  At the beginning ...

Last week, Oversight debuted its first-ever Spend Analysis Report, a compilation of data we gathered from an analysis of 10 million transactions. Thos...

Pierre Mitchell and Tony Darugar provoke some serious thoughts.  They both observe that “expense management” should really be “spend management” and t...

With the close of fraud prevention month, Oversight wanted to recap our favorite fraud prevention tips. How many of our examples below apply to your o...

Did you know it is National Fraud Prevention month? Since preventing fraud, misuse, and compliance violations in T&E, P-Card and AP programs is a main...

A recent CFO article detailed how CFOs can stay ahead of the game by monitoring specific areas for employee fraud. Among the top 5 areas where employe...

Could, as a Supply Management story notes, procurement fraud potentially be committed by anyone in an organization? In my experience, the answer is ye...

A recent survey of U.S. office workers revealed that a concept known as “maverick spending” is costing employers tens of thousands of dollars (and in ...

A recent article caught my attention in Spend Matters that advocates an approach toward spend analytics that goes beyond sourcing, and one that can be...

After months of planning and development, we are proud and excited to unveil our new Oversight web site today. Our new site represents the next genera...

In his opening address to the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) National Leadership Conference, Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the Gove...