WHITE PAPER - The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Accounting | Business Performance Management | Compliance (Finance) | Financial Management | Financial Reporting | Financial Statements | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Legal Compliance Software | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - SAP® solutions for governance, risk, and compliance help you institutionalize compliance throughout the enterprise. Across operational, financial, global trade, and environmental compliance activities, you can reduce costs and risks while boosting productivity and increasing your competitive advantage.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Business Performance Management Software | Business Process Management | Compliance (Finance) | Compliance Best Practices | Data Governance | Data Integration | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - In this research, we examine the lessons that have been learnt from the current financial crisis, and propose ten practical lessons that could help to address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment and management.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Finance) | Economic Environment | Financial Management | Financial Reporting | Regulatory Compliance | Reporting Software | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - Traditional approaches to risk management emphasize mitigation, focusing on the readily apparent risks facing a company in the areas of security, privacy, credit, regulatory, technology, fraud and more. These threats are, of course, important and must be addressed.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Finance) | Disaster Planning | Enterprise Resource Management | Financial Reporting | Payroll Software | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - According to a September 2006 benchmarking survey conducted by the Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG) and SAP on governance, risk, and compliance (GRC ), most organizations today have a reactive approach to GRC management - a fire-drill method of channeling precious resources and management attention to address specific regulatory...
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Architectures | Business Intelligence | Business Structures | Compliance (Finance) | Data Governance | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Assessment | Risk Management | Supply Chain Intelligence

WHITE PAPER - This paper offers thought leadership to help you address challenges surrounding information security and compliance issues. It will also introduce you to the value and importance of a hardware security module as a key part of any successful information security program.
Posted: May 5, 2009 | Published: August 13, 2008


Topics:  Access Control | Compliance (Finance) | Data Security | Encryption Standards | Enterprise Systems | Hardware Management | Identity Management | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Management | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes HP Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment Accelerator, a template of pre-defined information based on ITGI's COBIT, which is loaded into HP Quality Center to help your organization define and execute Sarbanes-Oxley testing, evaluate the results, and develop remediation plans.
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Service Management | Compliance (Finance) | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Best Practices | Composite Applications Software | Software | Software as a Service | Software Best Practices

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper details the background you need to build an effective compliance program by understanding benchmarks, the basic building blocks of compliance initiatives. You'll learn about the benchmarks specified by the Center for Internet Security (CIS), which are often used as a starting point for creating a compliance initiative.
Posted: March 30, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Finance) | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Audits | Compliance Best Practices | HIPAA | HIPAA Compliance | Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | Security Audits | Security Policies | Security Standards

WHITE PAPER - Read this case study to learn how Rothschild Bank in Zurich has achieved banking and financial reporting regulatory compliance by getting a handle on change and getting down to basics - the five core competencies of compliance.
Posted: March 30, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2009


Topics:  Accounting (Security) | Accounting Industry | Auditing (Finance) | Compliance (Finance) | Compliance Audits | Compliance Best Practices | Financial Management | Financial Reporting | Financial Services Industry | Regulatory Compliance | Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

WHITE PAPER - Records management forces you to think about how you create, process, capture, and manage information. This requires a review of your business activities from an information-centric point of view, which in itself can highlight process inefficiencies. This white paper explains why such a process is important.
Posted: March 6, 2009 | Published: March 6, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Compliance (Finance) | Compliance Software | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Electronic Discovery | NAS | RAID | Records Retention | SAN | TCO

ANALYST REPORT - In 2008, Forrester answered 106 end user inquiries on archiving, including questions on eDiscovery, retention, message archiving, and using archiving to cope with the data growth explosion. This white paper summarizes these answers and explains why it's necessary to retain data for regulatory compliance or legal discovery purposes.
Posted: March 6, 2009 | Published: December 8, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Compliance (Finance) | Disaster Recovery | Electronic Discovery | NAS | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This paper reviews e-discovery scenarios where Legal and IT must be a united front; understanding both sets of requirements and responsibilities, managing the e-discovery process, and action steps for Legal and IT to ensure regulatory compliance and reduced costs and risk of e-discovery.
Posted: March 6, 2009 | Published: March 6, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Finance) | Disaster Recovery | Electronic Discovery | Legal Compliance Software | NAS | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Affordable data infrastructure solutions based on open standards that are inherently secure are now available to midsize organizations. Not only are they quick and easy to deploy, use and maintain, they are designed to meet the constraints of limited IT resources and budgets in the face of the current economic downturn.
Posted: February 25, 2009 | Published: February 25, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Finance) | Compliance Best Practices | Compliance Software | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Security | Oracle (Product) | SMBs

WEBCAST - This webinar discusses the challenges in designing a change management process, defining approval workflows, and conforming to IT governances such as Sarbanes-Oxley and SAS70. It also shows you how quickly Numara FootPrints Change Management helps effectively change, ensure compliance in IT, as well as other functional areas of your business.
Posted: February 19, 2009 | Premiered: February 19, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Compliance (Finance) | Configuration Management | Infrastructure Management | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

WHITE PAPER - This document presents an overview of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB), and Health Insurance Portability & Accountability (HIPAA). It then translates these mandates into identity management requirements and challenges; defines and describes the reference model, and applies the reference model to the mandates.
Posted: February 13, 2009 | Published: February 13, 2009


Topics:  Authentication | Compliance (Finance) | Endpoint Security | Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act | Group Policy | HIPAA Compliance | Password Authentication Protocol | Remote Access Security | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | Security Policies