The approval authority may be delegated on either a temporary or permanent basis. Use of a Web-based facility eases implementation issues and eliminates the need to distribute and maintain client software to a typically large user base. Request insures the integrity of the approval process by authenticating all system users with the base operating system's userid and password. Request eliminates the need to introduce yet another security environment. Request users are logged to provide a complete audit trail of system activity.
Request introduces a tiered, three-level structure with which to associate resource accesses.
The highest access level access is Application Access, followed by System Access and finally Platform Access. A higher level access can be implemented to imply an automatic lower level-dependant accesses. Request to insure that an authorization to the accounts receivable system will also include the necessary Oracle and NT authorizations. This tiered approach to resource definition, combined with dependency associations, automatically insures that all of the authorizations for a request are addressed simultaneously. Without such controls, requests are often subject to revision and re-submission to address dependant authorization requirements.