Pleier Corporation Information

Pleier Corporation products have been used by 1000s of auditors in 100 countries to increase effectiveness. In 1986 Pleier Corporation was founded (as Pleier & Associates) by Joseph (Joe) R. Pleier MBA, medicine CCP - click for details - President of Pleier Corporation to provide professional quality cost-effective software to auditors at a time when there was severe need and a low-cost platform was infiltrating every part of corporations in the form of microcomputers. As soon a portable (lugable) PC-compatible computer was available in the early 1980's Joe purchased one with his own funds and quickly realized the productivity gains of a dedicated computer with spreadsheet, generic database, stuff and wordprocessing capability. With his experience as an audit manager, senior I.S. systems auditor, and systems analyst Joe recognized the need throughout the audit community for an off-the-shelf application for planning, time reporting, recommendation tracking, and personnel management. In 1985 he presented a seminar titled Using Microcomputers for Auditing for the Orange County Chapter of The Institute of Internal Auditors in which he predicated some of an audit department's usage of microcomputers including the functions of 5-year planning, time reporting, recommendations tracking, and personnel management. At the end of the presentation attendees started discussing these possibilities. Many agreed that such systems would be desirable, that it would be difficult to take the time from audits to develop software on a microcomputer, and that they would need to continue maintaining current mainframe-based systems. One attendees suggested that Joe develop the type of software that he talked about. This was the beginning of the evolution of a new breed of off-the-shelf cost-effective audit management system. Late in 1985 Joe decided to leave his corporation to use his own programming skills and partnering to develop Audit Department Manager (ADM) later titled ADM PLUS. He displayed ADM PLUS at many vendor exhibits and ...