iDelegate's benefits in seven words
What iDelegate can bring you
Forget about pen and paper, inconsistent versions, long cascade times and records of delegations going missing. iDelegate has been designed from the ground up to make any Delegation of Authority implementation a breeze. It can improve decision-making clarity and boost organisational performance at all levels of your organisation.
GOOD GOVERNANCE
Built on best practice for Good Governance. Covers both financial and non-financial authorities, stakeholder participation requirements and is easily accessible by all employees.
COMPETENCE
Supercharge your delegation process without reinventing the wheel. Let your organisation benefit from global expertise to delegate authorities and powers successfully and efficiently.
SIMPLICITY
Uncluttered interface makes iDelegate very intuitive to use and administer. We expect that iDelegate will be run by non-IT users. Anybody should be able to set up and update the system.
CONSISTENCY
Single source of truth centrally set, controlled and validated – easy to administer and keep up-to-date. Assign spot delegations as needed for projects or special assignments.
CONTROL
Perfect visibility into every single delegation. Permanent record of individual accountability acceptance for risk reduction, performance management, internal control, audit or legal reasons.
SPEED
Delegations are delivered to individuals in real time through email and online dashboard. Grant, recall, reassign, increase or decrease delegated powers with immediate effect.
iDelegate's Features
Delegating Authority Made Easy
If you have a Delegation of Authority policy in place but still use pen and paper or other nonintegrated system to manage your delegation process, iDelegate will make it much faster, smoother and more efficient. If you have no such system at all, iDelegate will place you together with the best in class from the get-go.
Presentation & Access
| Customisable to match your organisation's visuals | Standalone access or single sign-on (SSO) through your corporate directory |
| Policies and delegations can be in local languages | Default interface in English (translations possible) |
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Policies
| Easily create and edit policies in visual editor | Export policies in PDF format |
| Include financial and non-financial categories and authorities in your policies | |
Authorities
| Easily create and edit authorities in visual editor | Attach hard limits to authorities in a currency or as a percentage |
| Designate authorities as 'responsible' if needed | Attach global observations and/or RACI notes to any authority |
| Enable users to see who has what authority with which limit | Mark authorities as delegatable or reserved |
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Delegations
| Easily create first root delegation from any policy | Users can cascade their delegations up to delegated limit to their direct reports |
| Each individual delegation can be adjusted in real time | Grant, suspend or withdraw any delegation at any moment |
| Record user acceptance of their delegations | Enable users to temporarily reassign their delegations |
| Issue delegations in any currency | Limit further delegation of specific authorities to intended recipient only |
| Attach specific observations and/or RACI notes to any authority within any delegation | Export delegations in PDF format |
| Hide specific delegations from view by system users | Create role-specific template delegations for bulk assignment |
| Delegators and delegates can add optional comments when granting and/or accepting delegations | Users can only cascade delegations which they themselves have accepted |
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Users
| Delegates receive delegations from their superiors and delegate to their direct reports | Delegates only see their own delegations and those they are able to delegate |
| Delegates only delegate authorities which they themselves possess up to their delegated limit | Auditors are able to review any delegation in the system but not change it |
| Create Committees which are able to delegate to individual users | Enable admin assistants to help out with delegations for other users |
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Notifications
| Notify users on delegation granting, suspending and withdrawal | Alert delegates and delegators 30 days prior to delegation expiry |
| Remind users to accept delegation 7 days after its issue | Custom notifications possible |
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Reports & Metrics
| Easily review global user, authority, delegation stats in the admin and auditor dashboards | Easily review individual delegations received, granted and accepted (including team members) in the delegate dashboard |
| Export full delegated authority matrix in Excel format | Custom reports possible |
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Inside iDelegate
Things that matter
iDelegate is built on the latest technologies to ensure data security, uninterrupted service and no need for maintenance on the client side. It requires no IT experience to administer.
Platform Independence
Being a web app, iDelegate is completely platform independent. It can be accessed through pretty much any device with a web browser, be it a personal computer, a tablet or a smartphone. All mainstream operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS, iOS and Linux are supported, as are major browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox.
In short, if your device can access the Internet, it can access iDelegate.
Protective Isolation
Each iDelegate client installation is hosted on a separate server in a geographic location of your choice. Because iDelegate hosting is not shared, all of its server resources are 100% dedicated to you, and you alone. And because iDelegate is not a multi-tenant application, your installation is completely isolated so you do not need to worry about the risk of your data being commingled with somebody else’s.
Available geographic locations include Singapore in Asia; Amsterdam, Frankfurt or London in Europe; Bangalore in India; and New York, San Francisco or Toronto in North America.
Data Security
The iDelegate app is multilayered to keep the application itself completely separate from any user or delegation data it displays. This means that, while the application code is proprietary to iDelegate, the data is yours and yours alone. iDelegate will not use it in any way other than for its intended purpose.
It should be possible to host the database on your own servers, if you prefer. Currently, iDelegate supports four databases: MySQL 5.6+, PostgreSQL 9.4+, SQLite 3.8.8+ and SQL Server 2017+.
Latest Technology
iDelegate is built with Laravel, easily the best of the latest generation of web frameworks based on the PHP language. PHP has been around for a while and extensively used in development of many well known sites including Facebook, Wordpress and Wikipedia. Laravel makes PHP applications secure through robust authentication and protecting them against many serious security risks such as SQL injection, cross-site request forgery and cross-site scripting.
iDelegate can talk to other systems too. Your users will be able to authenticate with OAuth providers such as Azure, G Suite and many others for a seamless single sign-on experience.
iDelegate is perfect for
Internal Delegations of Authority | External Delegations of Power of Attorney | Standing and/or Ad hoc Committee Charters | Schemes of Delegation | Policies which need to be individually assigned
iDelegate is designed to be consulted on the go
What you see is what you need
iDelegate has been developed to make everyday use easy. It features uncluttered interface presenting users only with what they need to know about their delegation. As long as they are connected to the Internet, iDelegate supports desktops, laptops and many mobile devices.
iDelegate supports your risk management efforts
iDelegate saves time
The iDelegate app appears simple in what it does because a lot of thought and effort has been invested into making it fit for its unique purpose. From technology stack to user interface, iDelegate is built on first hand experience of needing – and not having – a straightforward delegation app just like this.
Up to
7
Days
to deploy Delegations of Authority using iDelegate
Up to
180
Days
to deploy Delegations of Authority using pen and paper
iDelegate addresses recommendations of*
Governance Institute
Australia
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What clients say about iDelegate
Testimonials
iDelegate is being continuously improved with feedback from our existing and potential clients and in close consultation with them. Development schedule is prioritised based on business requirements of our user base.
The system is very intuitive to use and we were able to deploy it quickly.
iDelegate has improved the robustness and consistency of our Delegation of Authorities immeasurably.
The system has delivered complete visibility for management on the extent to which authority has been delegated across our business.
Our employees now have clarity on their authority which will improve decision-making.
The user-friendly interface has made adoption simple with little training required.
Our Board was impressed with [the system] and with the level of detail in the authorities.
Risk reducing nature of clear authority delegation pays for itself in no time
One-off affordable pricing
iDelegate has three levels of one-off setup fee to customise and deploy your installation and train your administrators in its use*. Regardless of the level you choose, we will help you to set up your policies in the system and provide full support with answers and fixes.
Essential
$9,950
Perfect to introduce a robust Delegation of Authority framework within a smaller organisation
1 Delegation of Authority policy
Unlimited delegations
Unlimited users
User alerts on delegation issuance, suspension or termination
Download policy statements and individual Delegation of Authority letters
Corporate
$12,950
Suitable for a medium-size company looking to formalise and optimise its policy management
Enterprise
$14,950
Great for larger businesses with a well developed policy framework and international presence
All 'Corporate' features
+ Unlimited policies
+ Delegate to/from Committees
+ Delegations in multiple currencies
+ Temporary delegation reassignment
+ API access to iDelegate database
Detailed information on the iDelegate app
Help and Q&A
Consult User Guides. Read more on the iDelegate app and its features and benefits. Contact us to suggest new features and improvements.
If you are a Delegate, this guide shows how to use iDelegate to its full potential to consult and accept your own Delegation(s) of Authority. If you are a Delegator as well, it will also show you how to assign, grant, suspend and revoke Delegations of Authority of your team members.
If you are an Auditor, this guide shows how to use iDelegate to view audit trail for Delegations of Authority in your organisation.
If you are an Administrator, this Guide shows how to enter and manage Delegation of Authority and other organisational policies, individual Delegations of Authority and users in the iDelegate app.
If you are a Developer, this guide shows how to harness iDelegate API to retrieve its data programmatically for use in your application.
