Anyone used aura at pwc? What's the cool factor of it? Just curious how it's better than the "filing cabinet" type software we have.

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It's not cool it's fucking awful.

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How else besides replication would it work? (given that Google docs-like functionality wouldn't be financially/practically feasible for the firm to develop)

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I'm not the one who develops aura lol idk how this shit works I just know it sucks

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In the scheme of software design, it's terrible. But when compared to what other firms have available to them, it's in a class of its own

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Canvas ftw!

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It's the best of the audit software I've seen. It does a really good job of structuring the audit and linking your LSPMs to control activities and substantive testing.

It's not so much cool, just a really good audit software. Never seen Deloittes though, so can't compare the two.

Yeah, it helps with project management and road mapping the audit. I honestly like I quite a bit (obviously when there are software issues it sucks just like anything).

I think the replicate feature is the worst idea ever and wastes so much time

Like DMS only one person can check it out at a time

Duh

And what about when working offline? (Only asking these questions because I work on an Aura dev team and these questions/issues have all been addressed 102948292times internally)

I've never worked offline so I don't see that as a current benefit of aura

But I would suggest copying whatever DMS does when you work offline?

So I'm sure you'll realize that just because something isn't a benefit for you, it isn't for others. How about the users in countries like China or Russia that block VPN or those working on clients (federal) where all content needs to be transmitted via the peer-to-peer replication feature?

Ok use what DMS uses

Yeah you lose so much time. Sometimes at the end when you save aura will let you know that someone is in the workpaper and you can save. I think a quick fix is to let you know when you open the workpaper that someone else is in it.

I'll always save in case there's a rep conflict when I'm done but it's really inefficient for me to remedy the rep conflict most of the time 😑

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