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- Chartered Semiconductor Avoids Expensive Audit and Remediation, Resolves Segregation-of-Duty Conflicts
- Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing wanted to implement a solution to address a lack of Segregation-Of-Duties SOD controls within the organization and enable senior managers to proactively resolve conflicting access rights. The challenge was to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing engaged Oracle Certified Advantage Partner Deloitte & Touche Enterprise Risk...
- Tags: Audit, Oracle Corp., Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., Semiconductor, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Operational Accounting, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Software
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Getting on the wavelength
- There's a solid, wide focused article by Tim Weber on the BBC News website's Davos coverage which articulates well the challenge many companies have in understanding and engaging with the internet on the most basic strategic level. Readers of sophisticated technical sites like...
- Tags: Knowledge, Social Media, Accountability, Perception, Internet, Public Relations, Blogging, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Finance, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- Taleo: Management’s comments regarding their November to forget
- A Different and More Optimistic View - Execs Confirm Many Prior Assumptions Last week, Taleo’s Katy Murray, CFO, and Nate Swanson, Investor Relations, were kind enough to spend a few minutes with me to discuss my recent post on Taleo. The overall tone was positive and not...
- Tags: Taleo Corp., Operational Accounting, Revenue Recognition, Sales Strategy, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Taleo's November to forget
- An HR Soap Opera This month hasn’t been a good one for Taleo. Here’s the timeline of events and an analysis of the lawsuits that are originating from recent events. On 11/3/2008, the company announced its Q3 earnings and they didn’t delight Wall...
- Tags: Revenue, Taleo Corp., Stock, Revenue Recognition, Investment, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Update: Los Angeles schools' payroll problems "stabilized"
- The Los Angeles Unified School District LAUSD seems to have ended it's year-long payroll system failure. For most of the last year, many teachers have faced incorrect paychecks resulting from problems during the implementation of an SAP system. According to the Daily News in Los Angeles: ...
- Tags: Deloitte LLP, Finance, LAUSD, Michael Krigsman, Operational Accounting, Payroll
- Blog posts 2008-01-20
- Climate Changes Everything - The Dawn Of The Green Economy
- Rarely has a single issue - climate change - so dominated the political debate and the public imagination. Will 2008 be the year of climate fatigue, or has the specter of climate change become so deeply rooted that it will lead to the transformation of consumer habits and the establishment...
- Tags: Deloitte LLP, Climate, Investment, Finance
- White papers 2008-01-15
- 45% of US Internet users are creating and sharing content
- 45% of survey respondents are developing Web sites, photo albums, blogs and music online to share with friends, family, peers and total strangers, Deloitte & Touche reports. 36% of all respondents stating that they view their cell phone as an entertainment device â€" a rise from 24% in Deloitte’s previous...
- Tags: Advertisement, Deloitte LLP, Entertainment, Internet, Internet User, Marketing, Marketing Research, site admin, Survey
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- Improving Compliance and Efficiency With Sun Identity Auditing and Other Sun Identity Management Capabilities
- Faced with increasing compliance requirements and related challenges since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and other regulations governing data integrity and privacy, Sun and its alliance partner Deloitte & Touche LLP (Deloitte & Touche) deployed Sun Java System Identity Manager and Java System Identity Auditor software to...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Auditing, Compliance, Identity, Identity Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- 38% of US consumers watching TV shows online
- About 38% of US consumers are watching TV shows online, 36% use their cell phones as entertainment devices and 45% are creating online content like Web sites, music, videos and blogs for others, according to Deloitte & Touche. About 62% of consumers 13-to-24-years-old are using their cell phones as entertainment...
- Tags: TV, Entertainment, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, site admin
- Blog posts 2007-12-28
- Information security by the numbers: It's not pretty
- A pair of security surveys were released Tuesday and the findings aren't pretty. First up, the Computing Technology Industry Association CompTIA released a survey on information security breaches. Among the findings: Among companies that reported a security breach in the last year, the...
- Tags: Information Security, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- NetSuite IPO: why now?
- Having been hinted at, promised and much discussed for the past two to three years, what made NetSuite decide to pick this week to submit its IPO paperwork to the SEC?One delaying factor was outside of the company's control although it ought to have seen it coming. It had to...
- Tags: CRM, ERP, NetSuite, Venture capital
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Microsoft's past stock options practice poses questions
- Microsoft's past stock options practice poses questionslock them upand close the doors!What can you expect from such crooks?45 companies, which risk disclosure and securities fraud violations........That says something about American business.........Ask yourself this.........do we have 45 budding ENRONS out there just waiting to screw their employees or better yet their...
- Tags: Stock options, Investment, Benefits, Financial accounting, stock price, stock, stock option, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-06-16
- Auditor loses McAfee employee data
- Auditor loses McAfee employee dataWhy Is CRITICAL Infomatin On A CD?All critical data should off the internet directly in a controled access environment and not on some clowns powerbook.why am I not surprisedThis is the timeline as I see it:12/15/05 - Employee looses backup cd by leaving it on an...
- Tags: Deloitte LLP, McAfee Inc., McAffee, Now IT
- Discussion threads 2006-02-23
- 67% of hospitals plan to invest in IT
- Nearly one-third of American hospitals aren't profitable or are just breaking even, Deloitte & Touche says. Medicare is becoming an increasingly large source of revenue, up to 37% from 33% in the previous survey. 67% plan to make long-term strategic investments in IT systems
- Tags: information technology
- Blog posts 2005-12-27
- OpenAir's quiet achievement
- One of the most consistent performers of the on-demand applications sector is OpenAir, which launched in June 1999 as TimeBills.com, before changing its name in March 2000. An on-demand provider of professional services automation PSA, OpenAir isn't as well known as some of the brasher proponents of the...
- Tags: OpenAir Inc., on-demand
- Blog posts 2005-09-27
- 67% of Web users did not register at Web sites when privacy policies were unclear
- 44 mln Americans could have been victims of ID theft, a survey by Deloitte & Touche LLP and the Center for Social and Legal Research says. 87% of respondents said they've read or heard about consumer data being stolen or disclosed in error. 64% of respondents have decided against making...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Web site, Web
- Blog posts 2005-07-01
- Only 38% of organizations run scans to detect rogue WLANs
- 63% of respondents to Deloitte & Touche 2005 Global Security Survey believe that security threats to their organisations are becoming increasingly sophisticated. This is aided and abetted by a severe lack of employee awareness and training, with 48% of respondents stating that this is a weakness in their organisation. Commonly...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, WLAN
- Blog posts 2005-06-24
- 20% of US venture capitalists want to invest in China, 18% - in India
- Deloitte & Touche and the National Venture Capital Association say US will remain the most attractive country for venture investments over the next 5 years. 20% of US venture capitalists said they are interested in investing in China over the next 5 years, according to the survey. 18% are interested...
- Tags: 5-Year
- Blog posts 2005-06-22
- 70% of companies had negative experience with outsourcing, 44% did not get any cost saving
- InfoWorld TechWatch points to Deloitte & Touche study of current outsourcing practices, where an overwhelming number of respondents has had negative experience with outsourcing and half of the respondents faced hidden costs. 70% of participants have had negative experiences with outsourcing. 25% of respondents realized that they could handle certain...
- Tags: outsourcing, negative experience
- Blog posts 2005-04-19
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