Ideagen Internal Audit is the current name for the platform many auditors still call Pentana Audit, a Nottingham, UK-built system with a customer base concentrated in housing associations, government bodies, credit unions and universities rather than the US corporate market its larger rivals chase. The one thing to know before a demo: Ideagen is still selling two separate technical generations of the product side by side, an older Windows-and-offline-capable edition once called Pentana Audit MK and a newer public-cloud edition, each priced differently on the UK Government’s own procurement marketplace, with no published date for retiring the older one. Ask which edition is actually being quoted before comparing any number to a rival’s.
This review covers what Ideagen Internal Audit is and who owns it, a stage-by-stage walkthrough from the vendor’s own documentation, where it stands on SOX and analytics, what is real in its 2025-26 AI push, the public price evidence from the UK’s G-Cloud marketplace, and the recurring themes in its Gartner Peer Insights and G2 reviews. It is one of the reviews in the site’s independent buyer’s guide to internal audit software and follows the evidence levels and scorecard set out in how we review audit software. Buyers weighing it against the market’s most-reviewed platform should also read our review of Optro (formerly AuditBoard).
Verdict. Ideagen Internal Audit (formerly Pentana Audit) is a workmanlike mid-market platform with a real, well-documented base among UK housing associations, public-sector bodies, credit unions and universities. Its planning-to-reporting workflow is adequate for a defined audit program, but reporting, SOX depth and analytics all trail the audit-first suites it competes with, and reviewers consistently describe license costs rising as customers move onto the newer cloud edition.
Best for. Mid-size internal audit functions, roughly six to 25 auditors, in UK housing, the public sector, credit unions or higher education that want one system from planning to reporting and do not need deep SOX testing or scripted analytics.
Not for. US SOX-heavy public companies; large or global functions that need scripted analytics or a single platform to consolidate audit, risk and compliance; and any buyer who needs a confirmed FedRAMP authorization for the internal audit product itself rather than a partner’s contract-vehicle claim.
Evidence. Research-based: vendor documentation and release notes, public procurement records, third-party pricing data, verified user reviews on Gartner Peer Insights and G2, and analyst coverage. We have not used the product hands-on for this review.
Price evidence. Ideagen publishes no price on its own site. The UK Government’s G-Cloud 14 marketplace, updated 14 October 2025, prices the newer cloud edition at £6,375 a year per instance and the legacy Pentana Audit MK edition at £13,870, both before named-user licensing, support and services are added.
Last verified. 27 September 2026.
In this guide
- What Ideagen Internal Audit is, and who owns it
- What you get: modules and how audit fits
- Walkthrough by audit stage
- SOX and controls
- Analytics, integrations and automation
- AI: what is real
- The scorecard
- Fit by situation
- Pricing and contract
- What users say
- Implementation and migration
- How it compares
- Questions about Ideagen Internal Audit
- Sources and verification
- Related guides
What Ideagen Internal Audit is, and who owns it
Ideagen’s own product page states plainly: “Ideagen Pentana Audit is now known as Ideagen Internal Audit.” The rebrand folds together what used to be sold separately as Pentana Audit and Pentana MK under one current name, though the pages we read do not give a date for when the combined name took over. Ownership sits above the product: Ideagen plc was taken private on 24 June 2022 by the UK private equity firm Hg, through a court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement using an Hg vehicle called Rainforest Bidco Limited. Ben Dorks has been chief executive through the company’s 2025-26 releases.
Scale claims on Ideagen’s pages are for the whole company, not Internal Audit specifically, and they run well above the roughly 10,000-plus customer figure sometimes quoted for the business historically. The homepage says the company is trusted by more than 18,500 organizations, and a July 2026 release puts it at more than 18,000 companies and close to two million daily users across the group. None of that is broken out by product, and we found no Internal-Audit-specific customer or seat count anywhere on the pages we read. What we did find, at the product level, is a clear sector push and two dated case studies: FORUM Credit Union in the US, and the University of Birmingham in the UK, where the audit team says it moved off a paper-and-ring-binder process onto “one version of the data” and now saves several days a year on progress reporting. Ideagen also exhibited at the National Housing Federation’s Audit and Risk Conference in Manchester in November 2025, with staff described as serving housing associations, local authorities and government bodies specifically.
Analyst attention has landed on the wider AI and quality story rather than on audit specifically. Verdantix named Ideagen a Leader in its Green Quadrant for Quality Management Software 2025 on 17 December 2025, with a 3.0 out of 3.0 score for AI operations in a 130-point, 14-vendor study, and again listed the company among “14 Innovative Vendors Advancing GRC In 2026” on 21 January 2026. Both citations are about Quality Management and GRC broadly, not an audit-specific placement, and we found no Ideagen claim to a seat in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for GRC Tools, Assurance Leaders or the Forrester Wave for GRC Platforms, the two reports several larger rivals in this guide do claim. The site’s guide to reading audit software analyst reports explains what each report actually measures.
The events below are the ones with a public date that a buyer should know before a call with sales.
| Date | Event | Why it matters to a buyer |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Jun 2022 | Hg completes taking Ideagen plc private | Private-equity ownership; expect commercial discipline at renewal |
| 18 Jul 2023 | “New Technology Editions” of Internal Audit and Risk Management announced, targeted for an early-2024 launch | The start of the current cloud edition; the legacy edition did not go away |
| 20 Nov 2024 | Internal Audit and Risk Management v1.6 ships: database tuning, daily due and overdue email reminders, refined notifications | Evidence of active, versioned maintenance |
| 14 Oct 2025 | Date stamped on the live UK G-Cloud 14 pricing documents for both Internal Audit editions and Risk Management | The most current public pricing evidence available |
| 12 to 13 Nov 2025 | Ideagen exhibits at the National Housing Federation’s Audit and Risk Conference, Manchester | Confirms the housing-association and local-government sector push |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Ideagen launches Mazlan, a company-wide agentic AI layer | The one named AI system; covers audit among other workflows |
| 17 Dec 2025 | Verdantix names Ideagen a Green Quadrant Leader for Quality Management, AI Operations 3.0 of 3.0 | Real recognition, but for Quality Management, not audit specifically |
| 22 Jul 2026 | Ideagen acquires Work Wallet, a UK mobile-first EHS vendor | Portfolio growth in EHS, a different buying center from audit |
| 1 Sep 2026 | Ideagen and Carahsoft partner to sell into US federal, state and local government | Cites an “Ideagen Government Cloud” FedRAMP Moderate claim and SEWP V, NASPO ValuePoint and OMNIA Partners contract vehicles |
What you get: modules and how audit fits
Ideagen still actively sells and separately prices two technical generations of Internal Audit in parallel, as of the 14 October 2025 pricing documents we read, with no public date given for retiring either one. The legacy “Pentana Audit MK Edition” is Azure-hosted with a local Windows client and web components, and is offline-capable, a real advantage for fieldwork in locations without reliable connectivity. The newer “Ideagen Internal Audit” edition is public-cloud SaaS with unlimited audits and controls, and integrates with the companion Risk Management module. A buyer should ask, in writing, which edition is being quoted and demonstrated, because the two have different prices, different hosting and almost certainly different roadmaps.
One more Ideagen product shares the portfolio but not the audience: Audit Intelligence, built on the heritage of Audit Analytics, is a market-intelligence database of SEC and PCAOB filings, auditor rotations, restatements and enforcement actions, covering more than 20 years and 70-plus source databases, and used by 18 of the top 20 accounting firms and 300-plus universities. It serves external auditors and academics, not an internal audit department, and should not be confused with Ideagen Internal Audit despite the shared brand. Internal Audit itself sits inside a wider Ideagen portfolio alongside Quality Management (formerly Q-Pulse), EHS, Compliance and ESG, none of which is an audit module; the site’s guide to types of internal audit software draws that line for the market generally.
| Product | What it is | Deployment | Price evidence (G-Cloud 14, 14 Oct 2025) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ideagen Internal Audit | The current cloud edition; unlimited audits and controls | Public cloud | £6,375 per instance a year, headline |
| Pentana Audit MK Edition | The legacy edition, still sold and supported | Azure-hosted; local Windows client with web components; offline-capable | £13,870 per instance a year, headline; named-user tiers underneath |
| Ideagen Risk Management | Formerly Pentana Risk; standalone or as an audit add-on | Same cloud family as the new edition | £10,500 per instance a year, headline |
| Internal Audit and Risk Management (Enterprise) | A combined bundle of the two products above | — | £7,200 a year plus per-user bands |
| Audit Intelligence | A SEC and PCAOB market-intelligence database for external auditors and academics; not for an internal audit department’s own workflow | — | Not applicable to this review |
Walkthrough by audit stage
The description below comes from Ideagen’s own product, methodology and G-Cloud pages, not from running the software; we have not used Ideagen Internal Audit hands-on for this review.
Planning and risk assessment
Planning runs on what Ideagen calls an objectives, risks, controls and tests (ORCT) structure, with risk-based prioritization and simultaneous mapping to SOX, ISO, ESG and IIA standards inside configurable, methodology-agnostic workflows the vendor markets as supporting “agile auditing.” The pages we read do not specify whether that IIA mapping has been updated to the Global Internal Audit Standards, effective 9 January 2025, or still reflects the prior framework; the site’s old IPPF to GIAS mapping table is the reference to check against once you have a demo login. The ORCT model itself is a reasonable cousin of the risk and control matrix most auditors already build in Excel.
Engagement and fieldwork
Fieldwork covers control design and testing scheduling, with evidence collection and effectiveness tracking. The legacy MK edition’s offline local client is the one real fieldwork differentiator we found against cloud-only rivals: an auditor without a reliable connection, on a branch visit or a site inspection, can keep working and sync later. The newer cloud edition does not advertise an offline mode.
Workpapers and review
Ideagen’s G-Cloud listing describes “electronic working papers” and centralized documentation, and the methodology page adds automated version control and consistent templates. That is a reasonable baseline description, but it is thinner than the workpaper detail several rivals in this guide publish, and we found no independent review commenting specifically on the review and sign-off workflow.
Issues and follow-up
Findings and recommendations are centrally tracked with automated alerts and escalation, plus CAPA-style corrective-action functionality. FORUM Credit Union’s case study credits the product’s automated documentation and risk heat maps with a 35% increase in audit capacity and real-time tracking that surfaces emerging risks, though the heat-map feature it describes lives in the companion Risk Management module rather than in Internal Audit itself.
Reporting
This is where vendor language and independent evidence diverge most. Ideagen’s own pages say audit, risk and board reports all generate “from the same system” with real-time, customizable dashboards. Reviewers on G2, Capterra and GetApp describe something slower: custom-report building that is coding-adjacent, Excel exports limited on character count and formatting, and, on Gartner Peer Insights, report generation that can lag on large data volumes. Reporting is the single most consistent complaint in the review evidence, worth testing directly in any demo; the site’s audit committee deck template is a useful benchmark for what a board actually needs out of the export.
SOX and controls
SOX appears on Ideagen’s pages as one of several frameworks the ORCT structure can map to, alongside ISO, ESG and IIA standards, and the legacy MK edition’s page separately lists “SOX compliance support.” That is a mapping claim, not a SOX product. We found no dedicated SOX module, no walkthrough-specific tooling, no segregation-of-duties testing workflow and no deficiency-classification workflow anywhere in the material we read; the deepest description of control testing we found is generic language about “control design and implementation” and testing focused on high-risk areas. That is consistent with the positioning most buyers already associate with the product: capable general audit workflow, thin on the specific mechanics a US SOX 404 program depends on, such as segregation-of-duties testing or deficiency evaluation. Public companies whose ICFR program is the center of gravity for their audit function should compare this section against the SOX compliance software comparison and the site’s own SOX 404 guide.
Analytics, integrations and automation
Ideagen’s July 2023 announcement of the “New Technology Editions” leans heavily on a “two-way API that’s native to the product,” pitched as removing the need for bolt-on connectors so risk data flows directly into audit planning. The help center backs a real, if narrow, permission model: an external application authenticates either as an individual user, seeing only what that person’s role permits, or through a separately licensed non-person “service account” whose own role then governs every app user. That is scoped API access, not an open integration marketplace.
The claim and the evidence diverge here too. Despite the native-API pitch, the only third-party-documented integrations we found in review-aggregator feature lists are Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. We found no dedicated audit-analytics module inside Internal Audit itself, in the style of the scripted, full-population testing tools covered elsewhere in this guide; what analytics do exist, such as risk heat maps and risk-convergence dashboards, live in the companion Risk Management module, not in the audit product a third-line team buys on its own.
AI: what is real
Mazlan, launched 2 December 2025, is the one AI system Ideagen names, and it is a company-wide layer rather than an audit-specific tool: the launch material describes it as agentic and autonomous, “embedded in our platform across EHS, quality, audit and compliance workflows.” CEO Ben Dorks has framed the bet on autonomous AI in compliance work as suited to a domain where failure is measurable and outcomes tend to be binary. We found no Internal-Audit-specific AI feature name anywhere on the pages we read; Mazlan is the whole story.
Governance language on the Mazlan hub page covers role-based permissions, audit trails and data residency, and puts human judgement above AI speed, requiring human approval on critical decisions. What it does not cover is the question audit committees now ask first: whether customer data trains the underlying model. We found no opt-in or opt-out statement, no retention period and no named model or vendor, a real gap against rivals in this guide that do publish that detail. Ask for it in writing, and see the site’s due diligence guide for the full list of AI data-use questions to put to any vendor before enabling a feature like this on live audit evidence.
The scorecard
The scorecard uses the 12 areas described on the method page; each level reflects documentation, procurement records and reviews, not hands-on use. Ideagen’s strongest showing is in the areas closest to core audit workflow, with the weaker levels concentrated in reporting, SOX depth, analytics and AI disclosure.
| Area | Level | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Risk assessment and planning | Adequate | ORCT structure, risk-based prioritization and multi-framework mapping described; no independent evidence of resourcing or rolling-plan tools |
| Engagement workflow | Adequate | Control design and testing scheduling described; “agile auditing” is vendor language, not independently confirmed |
| Workpapers and evidence | Adequate | Electronic working papers, automated version control and consistent templates described; thinner detail than several rivals publish |
| Issues and follow-up | Adequate | Centralized tracking, automated escalation and CAPA functionality; a dated credit-union case study on capacity and heat maps |
| Reporting | Limited | Vendor claims real-time dashboards from one system; G2, Capterra and GetApp reviewers describe slow, coding-adjacent custom reports and limited Excel export |
| SOX and controls testing | Limited | SOX named as a mapped framework; no dedicated module, segregation-of-duties testing or deficiency-classification workflow found |
| Analytics and automation | Limited | Native-API claim, but only Word and Excel integrations documented by third parties; no dedicated analytics module in the audit product itself |
| AI features | Limited | Mazlan is real and dated, but not audit-specific, and no data-use, training or retention statement was found anywhere |
| Quality program support | Limited | Methodology mapping and templates exist; no QAIP metrics module or external-quality-assessment support found |
| Auditee experience | Adequate | Daily due and overdue email reminders and refined notification logic (v1.6, Nov 2024); no dedicated request portal described |
| Administration, integrations and security | Adequate | Scoped API authentication, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, PCI DSS self-validation, UK and EEA hosting; no SOC 2 report found |
| Cost and contract | Adequate | Unusually granular public G-Cloud rate cards; offset by a 2-year minimum term and reviewer complaints about rising license costs on the cloud move |
| Vendor viability | Adequate | Stable Hg ownership since 2022 and active dated releases; two technical generations still sold in parallel with no public sunset date |
Fit by situation
The eight situations are the same on every review in this guide, so ratings can be compared across products. Ideagen’s ratings cluster around the mid-market, public-sector-adjacent buyer its case studies describe, and away from SOX, analytics and enterprise GRC consolidation.
| Situation | Rating | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| First system for a small team (1 to 5 auditors) | Workable | Named-user licensing scales down, but no small-team-specific edition was found, and the product reads as built for a defined program rather than a one- or two-person function |
| Mid-size function (6 to 25 auditors) | Strong fit | The clearest match in the evidence: this is the size of the named housing-association, credit-union and university audit shops in the case studies and sector events |
| Large or global function (25+ auditors) | Workable | Per-user rates fall as low as £549 at the top tier, but the largest confirmed account, the UK National Audit Office, was moving to a different system, and no analytics module exists for large data volumes |
| SOX-heavy public company | Poor fit | SOX is a mapped framework, not a built product; no dedicated module, segregation-of-duties testing or deficiency workflow was found |
| Bank or credit union | Workable | A real, dated FORUM Credit Union case study and ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certifications; no SOC 2 report was found, which some US financial-services buyers require |
| Public sector, higher education or nonprofit | Strong fit | University of Birmingham case study, a National Housing Federation conference presence, and non-profit and education discounts built into the G-Cloud rate card |
| Analytics-heavy team | Poor fit | No ACL- or IDEA-style analytics module inside the audit product; the only documented third-party integrations are Word and Excel |
| Consolidating GRC across the three lines | Poor fit | The portfolio has only Internal Audit and Risk Management as audit-adjacent modules; no compliance, ESG or third-party-risk module to consolidate onto |
Pricing and contract
No single public list price exists on ideagen.com; its pages say only that pricing is available on request, and G2 confirms the vendor does not list pricing information on G2 either. Detailed, dated public rate cards do exist, however, through the UK Government’s G-Cloud 14 marketplace, where the supplier is listed as Ideagen Technology Limited. That is unusually granular public pricing for this category, and the table below uses it exactly as published, with the date and what each figure covers.
| Source and date | Figure | What it covered |
|---|---|---|
| G-Cloud 14, Pentana Audit MK Edition, 14 Oct 2025 | £13,870 per instance a year, headline; named-user license tiered from £1,387 (1 to 10 licenses) down to £694 (51 to 75) and £549 (101 to 150) | The legacy edition; minimum term 2 years; non-profit discount 10%, education 15% |
| G-Cloud 14, Ideagen Internal Audit (new edition), 14 Oct 2025 | £6,375 per instance a year, headline, unlimited audits and controls | The current cloud edition |
| G-Cloud 14, Ideagen Risk Management and combined platform, 14 Oct 2025 | £10,500 per instance a year standalone; the combined Internal Audit and Risk Management (Enterprise) platform at £7,200 a year plus named-user bands: Audit £1,875 per user (1 to 5) down to £525 (101+); Risk Management £750 per user (1 to 5) down to £190 (101+); an unlimited, view-only business-user add-on runs £3,000 to £12,050 a year by band | Risk Management standalone or bundled with audit |
| G-Cloud 14 services rate, both editions | £1,330 a day for professional services; support uplift 15% (Standard) or 25% (Premier) of license fees | Implementation, training and ongoing support, on top of the license |
| UK National Audit Office, sole-source continuation, 1 Apr 2023 to 31 Mar 2025 (option to 31 Mar 2026) | £375,000 ex VAT for the 2-year term | Pentana Audit MK 12.0, explicitly a bridge while migrating to a different system, not a new-customer signal |
Strip out the specifics and the model is: a platform or instance fee, steeply degressive per-named-user licensing, an optional flat-fee view-only user tier, day-rate services, and a support fee charged as a percentage of the license, on a 2-year minimum term with standard non-profit and education discounts. G2’s own buyer-survey aggregate, not a vendor figure, puts average implementation at about 3 months, payback at about 25 months, negotiated discount at about 8%, and perceived cost at the top of G2’s scale.
Two things are worth pinning down before signature. First, confirm in writing which edition is being quoted: the legacy and new-technology editions differ by more than two to one on the headline instance fee alone. Second, treat the National Audit Office’s own exit as a caution about the legacy edition’s roadmap specifically, not the product generally, and ask whether your edition has a published end-of-life date; then try to negotiate down the support-uplift percentage and the minimum term. The site’s internal audit software pricing guide puts these figures beside every other vendor’s in this guide, and the vendor-neutral RFP method has the pricing schedule to send so quotes come back comparable.
What users say
Review volume for Ideagen is thin next to the market leaders in this guide, which matters when reading any average: Gartner Peer Insights shows 3.9 from 7 reviews in the Audit Management Solutions market (14% five-star, 71% four-star, 14% three-star, no one- or two-star reviews), G2 shows 4.2 from 93, Capterra shows 4.2 from 10, and TrustRadius holds a single review at 7.3 out of 10, too thin to be a reliable signal on its own. GetApp draws from roughly the same small pool as Capterra, so treat its numbers as another read of the same data, not a fourth source; it shows Audit Trail and Monitoring both at 5.0, 80% overall positive sentiment, and documented integrations limited to Word and Excel.
| Theme | Praise or complaint | Where seen |
|---|---|---|
| User-friendly interface, one-stop planning-to-reporting scope | Praise | G2 and Capterra reviewers |
| Responsive customer support | Praise | G2, Capterra and Gartner Peer Insights reviewers |
| Collaboration and concurrent editing, centralized document storage | Praise | Gartner Peer Insights and G2 reviewers |
| Custom report building is slow and coding-adjacent; long report-build times | Complaint | G2 and Capterra reviewers |
| Excel export limited on character count and formatting | Complaint | G2 reviewers |
| Steep learning curve, click-heavy interface, cannot easily duplicate a prior audit | Complaint | G2 and Capterra reviewers |
| Rising license costs on the move to the cloud edition; aggressive sales tactics | Complaint | G2 reviewers |
The pattern holds across every site with a real sample: reporting and export friction, and rising license costs tied to the cloud transition, are the two complaints that recur on G2, Capterra and the GetApp pool alike. That matches the positioning most buyers already associate with this product, and it is the most defensible reading of a genuinely thin review base.
Implementation and migration
Ideagen’s own G-Cloud rate card bundles 5 implementation days and 4 training days as standard, with extra time billed at £1,330 a day, and it prices two support tiers as a percentage of license fees: Standard at 15% and Premier at 25%, on a minimum 2-year term. G2’s buyer-survey aggregate, again self-reported by buyers rather than a vendor SLA, puts average time to implement at about 3 months and average return on investment at about 25 months, consistent with a mid-market onboarding motion rather than a self-serve product.
Documentation looks genuinely maintained: versioned release notes (v1.6 shipped 20 November 2024) and detailed API-permission guidance are both current. We found no named implementation partners, certified-administrator program, or bulk-migration tooling for historical workpapers coming from Excel, SharePoint or a rival platform; budget for that gap yourself, and see the site’s guide to implementing audit management software for the first-120-days plan and the Excel-migration checklist.
How it compares
Ideagen leans on category positioning rather than naming rivals, describing itself as built “by people who have worked in the profession”; we found no vendor-authored head-to-head page of the kind some competitors publish. The best available comparative evidence is third-party. A G2 comparison page pits Ideagen Internal Audit (4.2 from 93 reviews) against Optro (formerly AuditBoard), whose own G2 rating is about 4.6 from roughly 1,613 reviews, and the synthesis is consistent with everything else in this review: Optro rates higher on ease of use and is praised for AI text generation and Power BI integration, while Ideagen is positioned as the more complete, all-in-one system with strong support that “could improve in areas like collaboration tools and integrations.” Both are flagged for rising cloud-licensing costs. See the Optro review for the full picture.
TeamMate (Wolters Kluwer) is the other audit-first classic that UK and public-sector buyers cross-shop against Ideagen. It runs on-premise as well as in TeamCloud SaaS, is far cheaper at the small end in its home US market (a two-user Essentials quote to the City of Norman, Oklahoma, came to $6,150.88 a year in February 2025), and draws a larger review base: 4.2 from 120 on Gartner Peer Insights against Ideagen’s 3.9 from 7. Neither vendor compares itself directly to the other, so read the TeamMate review alongside this one and weigh the currency and market difference before comparing any figure directly.
GetApp’s own algorithmic “top alternatives” list is a reasonable proxy for perceived substitutes, not a vendor claim: Onspring (4.8 from 105 reviews), SiteDocs (4.8 from 255) and Optro (4.7 from 414, on GetApp’s count). None is built for the housing, credit-union and higher-education base Ideagen actually serves, which is why sector fit, not a star rating, should decide a shortlist here. The site’s best internal audit software roundup sorts the wider field by use case.
Questions about Ideagen Internal Audit
Is Ideagen Internal Audit the same as Pentana Audit?
Yes. Ideagen’s own product page states that “Ideagen Pentana Audit is now known as Ideagen Internal Audit.” The rebrand is a name change over the same underlying products, and Ideagen still sells two technical generations of it in parallel: an older Windows-and-offline-capable edition once marketed as Pentana Audit MK, and the newer public-cloud edition. Ask which one is in your quote; the pages we read give no sunset date for the older edition.
How much does Ideagen Internal Audit cost?
There is no published list price on ideagen.com. The clearest public figures come from the UK Government’s G-Cloud 14 marketplace, dated 14 October 2025: £6,375 a year per instance for the new cloud edition and £13,870 for the legacy edition, both before named-user license tiers, a day rate for services, and a support fee charged as a percentage of the license. Get a written quote naming the edition, and confirm the minimum contract term, which the rate card sets at 2 years.
Is Ideagen Internal Audit right for a small team?
It is workable rather than an obvious first choice. We found no small-team-specific edition, named-user pricing scales down but not to a token level, and the reporting and learning-curve complaints in the reviews recur even though G2’s own reviewer mix already skews toward smaller organizations. A team of one to five auditors should also look at TeamMate’s Essentials-tier pricing and the options in the site’s audit software for small teams guide before deciding.
Does Ideagen Internal Audit support SOX compliance?
Only as a mapped framework, not as a dedicated capability. SOX sits alongside ISO, ESG and IIA standards in the product’s methodology mapping, but we found no dedicated SOX module, no walkthrough-specific tooling, no segregation-of-duties testing workflow and no deficiency-classification workflow anywhere in the material we read. A US public company whose ICFR program is the center of gravity for its audit function should compare it against the products in the site’s SOX compliance software comparison.
What is Ideagen Mazlan, and does it use our audit data to train its models?
Mazlan is Ideagen’s single named AI system, launched 2 December 2025, described as agentic and embedded across the company’s EHS, quality, audit and compliance workflows rather than being an audit-specific tool. Its governance page covers permissions, audit trails, data residency and a requirement for human approval on critical decisions, but we found no statement on whether customer data trains the underlying model, no retention period and no named model or vendor. Ask for that in writing before turning it on against live audit evidence.
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Sources and verification
- Ideagen: Pentana Audit product page — the rebrand statement (accessed 26 September 2026).
- Ideagen: Ideagen Internal Audit product page — current product description, sectors and the University of Birmingham case study (accessed 26 September 2026).
- Ideagen: acquisition announcement — the Hg take-private, 24 June 2022 (accessed 26 September 2026).
- Ideagen expands EHS portfolio with acquisition of Work Wallet — the Work Wallet acquisition, 22 July 2026, and company-wide scale claims (accessed 26 September 2026).
- Ideagen and Carahsoft partner for the public sector — the 1 September 2026 partnership, FedRAMP claim and contract vehicles (accessed 26 September 2026).
- Ideagen launches Mazlan — the AI launch, 2 December 2025, CEO framing, and the AI hub’s governance language read for that section (accessed 26 September 2026).
- G2: Ideagen Internal Audit reviews — the 4.2 rating from 93 reviews and the counted themes (accessed 26 September 2026).
- Capterra: Ideagen Internal Audit reviews — the 4.2 rating from 10 reviews and the pros and cons (accessed 26 September 2026).
- Gartner Peer Insights: Ideagen Internal Audit reviews — the 3.9 rating from 7 reviews and the star breakdown (accessed 26 September 2026).
- Find a Tender: UK National Audit Office, Pentana Audit MK 12.0 continuation — the £375,000 sole-source contract and its bridge rationale (accessed 26 September 2026).
- G-Cloud 14: Pentana Audit MK Edition listing and pricing schedule — the legacy edition’s headline price, named-user tiers, add-ons, discounts and hosting and certification detail (accessed 26 September 2026).
- G-Cloud 14: Ideagen Internal Audit listing — the new cloud edition’s headline price and security detail, and, via the linked Ideagen Risk Management listing and pricing document, the Risk Management and combined-platform figures (accessed 26 September 2026).
- G2: Optro (AuditBoard) vs Ideagen Internal Audit comparison — the side-by-side ratings and theme synthesis (accessed 26 September 2026).
- GetApp: Ideagen Internal Audit listing — per-feature sub-ratings, the documented-integrations gap and the algorithmic alternatives list (accessed 26 September 2026).
- G2: Ideagen Internal Audit pricing page — confirmation of no vendor-listed price, and the buyer-survey cost tier, implementation and ROI averages (accessed 26 September 2026).
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- Internal audit software pricing — real numbers, pricing models and how to negotiate.
- Reading audit software analyst reports — what Gartner, Forrester and G2 actually measure.
- The audit software demo script — 25 scenarios that make vendors show, not tell.
- Audit software due diligence — security, data residency, AI data use and vendor stability.
- Selecting an audit management system — the vendor-neutral RFP method.
- SOX compliance software compared — how the SOX-first platforms stack up against a mapping claim like Ideagen’s.
- Implementing audit management software — the first 120 days and migrating off Excel.
- Audit software for small internal audit teams — options and real prices for one to five auditors.
- TeamMate vs Ideagen Internal Audit (Pentana) — the two compared factor by factor, with cost and fit by situation.
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