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whitepaper What Can 2007 Teach Us About 2008?2007-10-01 Tatum Consulting
  2007 was a tumultuous year for U.S. businesses and employees, filled with extreme highs and disappointing lows. Private equity garnered nearly $400 billion in mega deals in merely six months, and news of multiple billion-dollar acquisitions (Chrysler, Alltel and CKX) illustrated a trend of public companies going private. However, financial markets soon shifted and companies felt the backlash. Lenders scrutinized borrowers with tougher standards, limiting access to capital.

After several months of market volatility, market direction remains unclear. We face a Catch-22: business leaders are conservative in making projections as they look for a cue from the markets, and the markets look for a cue from business leaders regarding new initiatives.

Each month, Tatum, LLC surveys its financial and technology executives regarding current business conditions and economic trends. With nearly 1,000 executives serving companies of all sizes across a broad base of industries in every geographic region of the United States, the Tatum Survey of Business Conditions takes a representative pulse of business activity. This document contains results and analysis from Tatum's Survey of Business Conditions from May through December 2007. Survey topics include private equity, M&A, regulatory compliance and reporting, and financial executive pressures.

Tags: HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, SEC Rule 17A-4		   
whitepaper Forrester Question & Answer: Assessing SOX's Impact on IT2007-01-31 21:23:02 FrontRange Solutions
  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) continues to challenge and befuddle IT shops and risk/compliance management organizations. The scope of SOX has initially been interpreted more broadly than intended by the SEC as a result of a lack of clarity on the role of IT in meeting the regulation. IT has now come to a greater focus and understanding of the specific requirements of SOX but also needs to consider ways in which SOX compliance can be combined with similar governance policies and compliance obligations.   
whitepaper Top 10 Reasons for Using Disk-based Online Server Backup and Recovery0000-00-00 Iron Mountain
  Data protection solutions that combine the latest advancements in disk-based backup with secure, integrated online technologies offer small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) fast and assured data protection.

Learn the top ten reasons why SMBs are embracing online server backup and recovery for automatic, continuous backup, reliable server data disaster recovery and freeing limited technical staff for more value-driven tasks. Topics include:
  • Automatic and secure off-site electronic vaulting
  • Reliable data restores
  • Security for sensitive data
  • Ability to demonstrate regulatory compliance
  • Increased competitive advantage
   
whitepaper SOx-Compliant Contract Management With ZyIMAGE: Implementing a SOx-Compliant Contract Management Solution With ZyIMAGE Web-Based Records Management2006-11-02 01:00:17 ZyLAB Technologies
  Contract management in public companies is subject to the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx) act. SOx compliance requires that organizations maintain control and ensure the integrity of their information reporting processes. Furthermore, organizations must be able to disclose real-time changes in their financial condition and know that altering or deleting documents can be a crime when not properly documented by standard policies. A DoD5015.2-certified Records Management Application (RMA) meets such SOx requirements. This whitepaper illustrates how a contract management system can be implemented with the certified ZyIMAGE RMA solution.   
whitepaper Email Archiving Solution for Ultimate .PST File Management2006-09-23 01:00:13 Instant InfoSystems
  The enforcement of mailbox limits causes MS Exchange users to create their own local repositories using .PST files. Email archiving solves the problem of "too much information" and .PST files that administrators are now facing.

For organizations suffering from the many risks and problems associated with .PST files, implementing a proven email archiving solution like ZANTAZ Enterprise Archive Solution (EAS) is the answer. EAS offers an advanced, intelligent archiving tool that will eliminate the need for .PST files and solve the problems they create.

Also, with ZANTAZ Enterprise Archive Solution, companies can effectively incorporate email into their overall records management strategy and ensure compliance with industry regulations.

This whitepaper looks at how to eliminate the risks and problems inherent in the use of .PST files by implementing ZANTAZ email archiving solution. Download this whitepaper now and learn more. 		  
whitepaper The Case for Archiving Email: A MessageLabs White Paper by Osterman Research2006-09-20 12:07:18 MessageLabs
  This paper discusses how email archiving benefits an organization for purposes other than regulatory compliance, & why archiving is becoming a best practice for an organization to follow regardless of its size or the industry. It also discusses the benefits that a hosted archiving solution can provide, as well as MessageLabs hosted solution.   
whitepaper Sarbanes-Oxley and IT Controls2006-09-01 01:00:13 MetricStream
  IT systems play a critical role in ensuring the accuracy of a company's financial reports. As a result, validation of IT controls is a key part of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance initiative. However, in Year 1 most companies pursued IT control validation in a reactive manner. As a result, the cost of compliance was very high. This paper reviews the most common weaknesses in IT controls, discusses a framework for defining and assessing IT controls in year 2 and examines how the proposed IT controls structure will map to the COSO framework used for SOx compliance.   
whitepaper Reducing the Cost of SOx Compliance - Learning From ISO9000 Implementation2006-09-01 01:00:13 MetricStream
  CFOs looking to reduce the cost of sustaining SOx compliance look no further than their Quality Management organization. The techniques that helped a manufacturer reduce the cost of staying compliant with ISO9000 will also enable a CFO to sustain SOx 404 compliance at significantly lower costs. When US manufacturers started implementing the quality management standard - ISO9000, the initial cost of compliance was very high. Every process had to be documented, almost every employee had to be trained and change control procedures for process and documentation had to be put in place. As a result, ISO9000 certification and its ongoing compliance were widely assumed to be only fit for companies with lots of resources.   
whitepaper Make Internal Controls a Part of Your Organizational DNA2006-09-01 01:00:13 MetricStream
  Chief executives and audit committees are required to confirm that an appropriate control environment exists and are charged with remaining in control of that environment. Most companies have hired external consultants and allocated internal resources to document, test and upgrade internal controls to get a passing grade on their SOx compliance. However, without a cultural change and appropriate investments in technology that automates the documentation, assessment, remediation and change control process, an organization would need to allocate the same amount of resources year after year to be compliant with SOx 404. Organizations need to make the focus on internal controls, a part of their organizational DNA, if they want to reduce their cost of compliance.   
whitepaper IT Systems Validation for SOx and Regulatory Compliance: Importance of Information Systems Audit and Validation2006-09-01 01:00:13 MetricStream
  Information technology has become a core enabler of business processes within the organizations today. As a result, companies are required to audit and validate their relevant IT systems to ensure that their business processes and underlying records comply with regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 or Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or 21 CFR Part 11(FDA). This paper defines an "Easy-to-implement" framework for auditing and validating IT systems for regulatory compliance. It also identifies a best practice which calls for IT organizations and software vendors to proactively audit their software development and implementation processes on an ongoing basis to identify and correct any systemic issues to lower the cost of compliance.