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Addressing Sarbanes Oxley Challenges

Addressing Sarbanes Oxley Challenges

The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 affects all public companies with stock traded on United States exchanges. SOX solutions based on the 2007 Microsoft Office system facilitate regulatory compliance by simplifying planning and enhancing visibility of financial processes and internal controls. New process automation and workflow features reduce errors while detailed audit trails and executive dashboards help maintain system integrity—all using familiar Microsoft technologies.


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Featured Partner Solutions

These featured partners have solutions based on the Microsoft Office System that are deployed at customer locations. Case studies of their solutions are available through the Solution Showcase.

Slalom Consulting: Office 2007 Compliance and Control Environment

The SOX Sharepoint Tool utilizes standard features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to help create and manage control documentation, promote collaboration between participants in the process, and report on the design and effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting.  Features include:

• Defined document templates that can be tailored to an organization’s compliance activities
• Integration of key document text as document properties
• Document storage and robust version and publishing controls
• Data repository for key control activity information
• Dashboard scorecards showing progress of annual evaluation efforts
• User-defined document workflow for management of document reviews, approvals, and digital signatures
• Document bar-coding for full lifecycle management including off-site document archival
• Comprehensive search capabilities across the control environment

Showcased Partner Solutions

CFO Strategies, Inc.: SOX Compliance Manager™ - Reduce the cost and complexity of SOX compliance

SOX Compliance Manager™ reduces the cost and complexity of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance management. The application automates CFO Strategies' project management methodology for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and utilizes:

  • A customizable archive of best-practice compliance documentation spanning all major business processes and IT layers. In addition to a broad foundation of policies, procedures, and controls, strategic and tactical guidelines are also provided to ensure effective project management.
  • Leading-edge workflow and document management tools, allowing for the assignment of critical project tasks and the oversight of critical control documentation. A powerful database tracks these project tasks and documents and enables a robust suite of project reporting tools.

Using SOX Compliance Manager™ enables companies to automate and sustain their SOX compliance project management.   

Meridio: Meridio for SOX
Meridio provides infrastructure to address critical compliance challenges such as SOX and DoD 5015.2, while seamlessly leveraging widely deployed Microsoft technology. The Meridio application is delivered in partnership with leading systems integrators as part of a comprehensive solution. The Meridio application is designed to be an extension of the Microsoft platform and adds a compliant, enterprise-scalable document and records management layer to the Microsoft Office System.
Neudesic, LLC: ACE•S (Assurance and Compliance Environment for Sarbanes-Oxley)

ACE•S is Neudesic’s flagship product for document management, process control and executive visibility for sustainable Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 302 and 404 compliance.  Built on Microsoft technologies, ACE•S is a web portal that provides organizations with a framework to improve corporate governance comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and enhance business performance.  ACE•S organizes and manages all internal control documentation as well as evaluation and testing documents and results.  With the ability to be utilized by all designated professionals including internal and external participants, ACE•S comprehensively manages all phases of the compliance program.  ACE•S can be implemented internally and integrated into your existing IT infrastructure or ACE•S LIVE delivers the full document management and collaboration solution with a subscription, web-service, no-software delivery model.

Omnirim Solutions Inc: Finance: Addressing Sarbannes Oxley Challenges

Financial services companies face increasing market complexity, higher volumes, tougher competition and shrinking margins. Increasingly knowledgeable consumers along with growing compliance and regulatory challenges are putting increased pressures on records management requirements. Regulations like the EU-Safe Harbor program, PIPEDA and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act among others are mandating stringent privacy requirements and protection of personal information.

Showcased Partners with Relevant Capabilities

Clusterseven Ltd: Enterprise Spreadsheet Management Software
ClusterSeven Enterprise Spreadsheet Management (ESM) Software is a complete solution to support the use of Excel spreadsheets as operational applications in business-critical processes. It delivers auditability, regulatory compliance (e.g. SOX), reduced risk, change management and transparency of data and activity. It does all this without reducing the flexibility and familiarity that makes Excel so powerful at delivering fast, competitive and cost-effective solutions to changing business needs.
Opportunity Solutions A/S: E-Mail Manager E-mail Management/Collaboration & Outlook integration within Microsoft SharePoint

Transform your e-mail correspondence into a corporate business tool -A patented solution with strategic benefits for e-mail Management & Collaboration.

 

Email-Manager automatically capture all in- and outbound e-mail's (including internal emails) and makes the available within the SharePoint Portal. E-mails are indexed and tracked into a specific project, case or workflow and will automatically be available within the web-parts and Team site's.

 

E-mail Manager has a strong track record with more than 650 customers who has implemented our products. We have proven "True Knowledge Management" since relevant information is instantly available to employees across the organization. Email-Manager is a unique component that enables you to keep track of the ever increasing e-mail dialogue with internal and external stakeholders.

Savvysoft: TurboExcel

TurboExcel lets you create mathematical subroutines (DLLs) instantly without any debugging or testing. Simply lay out the logic in an Excel spreadsheet, and TurboExcel will turn that spreadsheet into C++ code and compile it.  The TurboExcel created subroutine is ready to be used and requires no debugging and no testing. This means that with TurboExcel developers can code up to ten times faster. TurboExcel also allows for the immediate migration of existing spreadsheets into code modules that are callable from other systems, and other platforms. TurboExcel also enables you to encapsulate spreadsheet logic into a single function thereby securing your spreadsheet so that proprietary logic can be hidden, and also made tamper-proof.  Some VBA code can be converted, as well.

 

TurboExcel automatically generates C++ code, compiled DLLs, standalone calculators, example C++ code, C++ headers, ActiveX components, HTML pages, and Web services.

Securent, Inc.: SharePoint Entitlements and Permissions Management
Securent Entitlement Management System (EMS) is the first XACML standard-based solution that allows organizations to create, enforce, review, and audit fine-grained access policies across heterogeneous application and IT environments distributed throughout the enterprise, all with centralized management and visibility.  EMS for SharePoint extends these abilities by enabling customers to bring their SharePoint -based assets unde the same management umbrella.
TENROX: Tenrox Project Workforce Management

Tenrox combines project/workforce management and financials, to replace the spreadsheets and internally developed systems companies currently use for cost and revenue planning, tracking and management reporting. A unique graphical workflow engine makes it simple to configure and change. Integration with leading financial systems is built-in. Tenrox empowers the project workforce locally and provides total visibility globally.

 

Our innovation is a modular solution for managing across time and space in a flat world, where work is fragmented, “projectized”, and performed by different resources with various skills in different places.

Workshare USA: Workshare Professional

Workshare Professional is an Outbound Content Security and Document Integrity solution that eliminates the risk of content leaks and inaccuracies, enabling the safe, compliant and high speed information exchange needed in today’s competitive business environment.  Workshare Professional ensures the secure, accurate, and compliant production and exchange of your contracts, term sheets and other business critical documents. With Workshare you can exchange important documents and be certain the right information – and only the right information – is in your document.

 

Workshare, an information security company, delivers Secure Content Compliance solutions ensuring safe information exchange without business disruption. Workshare's solutions are used by over 5,500 organizations in 65 countries.

Workshare USA: Workshare Protect Enterprise Suite

Millions of documents, emails and other electronic communications with private, confidential, or otherwise sensitive information leave organizations every day. Insider leakage of confidential info, whether inadvertent or malicious, demands action due to the financial, privacy and legal implications.    Protect Enterprise Suite alerts your users to potentially embarrassing, regulated or confidential content disclosures before they happen, cures risky content when appropriate, and blocks only when necessary - plugging leaks such as:  1) Confidential consumer or customer info violating global, Federal and state regulations, 2) Trade secrets, patents, customer lists, and other intellectual property, 3) Financial information prior to disclosure date, and 4) Server names and email addresses revealing a map to the corporate network leaving it exposed to outside-in network attacks.

Find Other Partners

Search for partners in the Microsoft Resource Directory, your one-stop Web site for finding technology partners who offer a broad range of products, services, and solutions based on Microsoft technologies. The directory includes packaged software, solutions offerings, and training from Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, Certified Partners, and Registered Members.


If you have a solution based on the Microsoft Office System, learn more about opportunities to showcase your solution with Microsoft.


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