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HealthSouth Corporation Strengthens Financial Visibility and Accelerates Monthly Closing | 2009-11-01 | Oracle |
| HealthSouth Corporation wanted to improve companywide visibility of financial data as part of HealthSouth's reorganization and relisting to the stock market and automate financial, budgeting, and human resources processes. The challenge was to accelerate monthly reporting, annual budgeting and planning and consolidate reporting by combining data and information from patient billing systems, financial systems, and human resources. HealthSouth Corporation upgraded to a single global instance of Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management Suite 9.0 to expand visibility into the company's financial position, ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and facilitate stock exchange relisting.
Tags: Regulatory Compliance |
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Ikanos Communications Inc. Minimizes Time to Market and Achieves Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | 2008-11-01 | Oracle |
| Ikanos Communications, Inc. wanted to minimize time-to-market for products and gain information systems that support the niche semiconductor industry with flexible processes. The challenge was to meet Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance in time for the company's initial public offering, in just 90 days. Ikanos Communications implemented Oracle E-Business Suite On Demand to bring data together from various sources to enable the company to minimize time-to-market and ensure financial transparency and achieved SOX compliance with Oracle Financials in just 90 days with the initial phase of the implementation.
Tags: Enterprise Planning, Security Administration |
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Indosat Meets SOX Compliance With Integrated Identity Management System | 2008-10-01 | Oracle |
| Indosat wanted to implement an identity management solution to minimize the risk arising from unauthorized system access and demonstrate compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley legislation by ensuring clear audit trails for all transactions. The challenge was to improve IT security operations control and support new business opportunities such as mobile banking. Indosat engaged Oracle Partner PT Global Innovation Technology to implement an identity management solution based on Oracle technology as well as integrated identity management solution with 55 business and telecommunications applications, including billing, enterprise resource planning, human resources, customer relationship management, and telco management products.
Tags: Security Administration, Security Administration |
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Lowara Leverages Performance Management System to Support Data Integration and Standardization | 2008-05-01 | Oracle |
| Lowara wanted to guarantee traceability of data, activities, and approval processes and ensure compliance with international regulations, especially Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. The challenge was to increase the sales network's involvement in setting revenue goals and apply a single reporting and consolidation process to different companies serving various markets. Lowara worked with IConsulting to implement a system based on Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management to support and integrate the entire data collection cycle for Web sales, budget preparation, various forecasts, and strategic three-year plans as well as rationalized, accelerated, and optimized management processes and hierarchical approval monitoring.
Tags: Business Functions, Regulatory Compliance |
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The Case for Document Management | 2008-03-01 | Computhink |
| Are you asking how to avoid court-imposed sanctions? Are you wondering how to keep the escalating costs of electronic and paper discovery to a minimum?
Whether the objective is to handle litigation, deliver new contracts, or projects, companies today need solutions that promote teamwork. However, common bottlenecks inhibit many organizations from achieving their peak performance:
ViewWise does this by helping organizations with access, archiving, storage, security, workflow and tracking of Electronic Content, while providing simple options for scanning, integrating, importing, and classifying. Tags: Business Functions, IT Budgeting, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Compliance |
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New Plan Excel Realty Trust Integrates Enterprise Content Management Initiatives and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | 2007-10-31 | Oracle |
| Given its size, New Plan faced a number of challenges related to efficiently managing business content, and exchanging information and documentation with internal and external audiences. New Plan's accounts payable function, for example, relied on manual procedures that required regional offices and corporate headquarters to process invoices. In addition, the organization struggled to effectively manage Oracle's Governance, Risk, and Compliance Manager processes using common desktop applications. New Plan also recognized that it needed to consolidate its many approaches for managing Web content, business documents, and records to improve efficiencies enterprise-wide. The company deployed Oracle Universal Content Management to address these issues and power a variety of content management-based applications.
Tags: Security Administration, Regulatory Compliance |
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Rapid Implementation of mySAP Business Suite Supports Global Expansion and Eases Regulatory Compliance | 0000-00-00 | SAP |
| Evergreen Solar Inc. of Marlboro, Mass., was a leading manufacturer of solar power products. The company wanted to replace homegrown and legacy accounting software with an integrated enterprise-wide solution. The challenge was to improve business processes by eliminating manual procedures and meet Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements for reporting. As a solution the company deployed mySAP Business Suite and SAP Best Practices for High Tech offering.
Tags: Regulatory Compliance, IT Budgeting |
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Securing e-Commerce at NutriSystem | 2007-09-14 | SecureWorks |
| To accomodate a rapidly growing base of satisfied e-Commerce customers, NutriSystem established scalable datacenters capable of processing millions of orders accurately and efficiently. As a publicly traded company, NutriSystem also needed to prove to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) auditors that they had the security measures in place to protect the integrity of their financial systems. With their business growing rapidly, NutriSystem needed a security solution that would streamline their operational processes, safeguard the privacy of their valued customers and provide reporting for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. After evaluating the top solutions in the market, NutriSystem selected SecureWorks' Managed Firewall, Managed Intrusion Detection and Security Monitoring Services.
Tags: Regulatory Compliance, Network Management |
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Xchanging Helps Customers Increase Profit With Sarbanes-Oxley Compliant Procurement Solution | 2007-08-01 | Oracle |
| International business process outsourcing company Xchanging plc specializes in handling large, complex, back-office processing services for procurement, financial, and accounting operations. The company wanted to implement a Sarbanes-Oxley compliant procure-to-pay model, capable of processing thousands of secure transactions daily, to win a major new outsourcing contract from a large bank. The challenge was to create a procure-to-pay solution that cuts transaction costs, leverages buying power, enforces on-contract spend, improves reporting, and boosts margins for Xchanging and the customer. The company implemented Oracle iProcurement, a self-service requisitioning application with configurable approval management capabilities that enforce adherence to purchasing policies. It also used Oracle iProcurement to automate and streamline processes, deploy real-time order status tracking, and leverage the product's built-in spend analysis and discount calculation functionality.
Tags: Regulatory Compliance, Data Tools |
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Streamlining Operations: How a Financial Services Leader Consolidated Accounting Systems for Over 150 Affiliate Firms With Hosted Lawson Software | 2007-07-19 | EDL Consulting |
| Founded in 1998, National Financial Partners is a national network of independent financial advisors offering financial services to high net worth individuals and growing entrepreneurial companies. To achieve true economies of scale, National Financial Partners needed to standardize and consolidate their accounting processes across all affiliates while meeting Sarbanes-Oxley compliance deadlines. In addition, business leaders were challenged to control the quality of information while limiting inefficiencies and ensuring maximum automation for workflow optimization. With a blended team of 13 functional and technical consultants, EDL leveraged Lawson's Accounts Payable, Cash Ledger, General Ledger and other modules to craft a customized solution that helped NFP to transfer over 150 financial advisory firms using different accounting systems onto the same platform.
Tags: Financial Services, Regulatory Compliance |
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