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- Operational Benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
- While many management teams, board of directors, audit committees see Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 as an administrative and compliance exercise, this paper encourages companies to think outside-the-box and use the regulation as an excuse to improve business processes. Forward thinking companies are indeed leveraging the Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance requirements to...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Compliance, Benefit, MetricStream Inc., Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
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- Sarbanes-Oxley and IT Controls
- 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...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Information Technology, MetricStream Inc., Strategy, Sarbanes-Oxley, Management, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance
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- IT Systems and SOX Compliance
- IT plays a critical role in the operations of an organization. It is difficult to imagine a successful organization existing in the 21st century without some level of reliance on IT systems. In today's environment, financial reporting processes are driven by IT systems. Such systems are deeply embedded in initiating,...
- Tags: information technology, financial reporting, financial, compliance, MetricStream Inc., Sarbanes-Oxley Act
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- The Importance of Dissent
- The Importance of Dissentwould be nice...It would be nice if we could "shout from the rooftops" without fear of reprisal. In reality, with most companies, the options are "jump ship" or "keep your mouth shut and do as you're told".It's hard to disagree publicly with your companyI agree with you...
- Tags: Drizzle, Mat, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile up
- Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile upGoogle Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile upFile this in the "No Surprise" category. The shoddy programming at Google which has been reflected on many of their applications and services should come as no surprise to anyone on Chrome. Google is trying to live...
- Tags: SECURITY, Google Chrome vulnerability, Google Inc., Google Chrome, vulnerability, Chrome, programming
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- VMworld is bringing out the vendors
- Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...
- Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Martin jabs back at Comcast over suit
- FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin responded to Comcast's lawsuit challenging the agency's authority to sanction the company. "Given Comcast's past failure to disclose its network management practices to its customers, it is important Comcast respond to the many still-unanswered questions about its new management techniques," Martin...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Federal Government, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Networking, Government, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Comcast challenges FCC authority
- I don't have time to review this right now, but I wanted to get it up ASAP. Comcast is appealing the FCC decision on network management, even though it plans to comply. Here's the message I received: In connection with its filing today in the...
- Tags: FCC, Commission, Network, Comcast Corp., Network Management, Sales Force Management, Federal Government, Internet, Networking, Sales, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Family entertainment act
- Family entertainment actGnR"...from aperformance of such work in a motion picture exhibition facility,shall–..."My understanding was that the works in question were not aquired from a "peroformance"Am I wrong?I Didn't say that he wasn't guiltyHey Rich,While I'm glad one of my comments is sufficient to become a blog entry itself, apparently...
- Tags: Sales strategy, marketing, sales, Family Entertainment, lawsuit, entertainment
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Family entertainment act
- There was an assertionin the comments on the story Guns 'n' Roses that the prosecution would have to prove some economic damages. How do they plan on proving financial impact in court? Piracy rates are calculated by comparing ESTIMATED demand for a product...
- Tags: Entertainment, Title, Piracy Rate, Sales Strategy, Performance Management, Advertising & Promotion, Sales, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Hybrids v. Pickensplan? You do the pickin'
- Hybrids v. Pickensplan? You do the pickin'How about a plug in hybrid that uses CNG and electric?How about a plug in hybrid that uses CNG and electric instead of gasoline/electric? The other thing to consider is that trucks, construction equipment, and farm equipment could be converted to CNG....
- Tags: CNG, car
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Slash to album poster: 'Rot in jail'
- You might question why illegally posting an unreleased album on your website should put you in federal penitentiary for three years, but Guns 'n' Roses guitarist Slash doesn't. "I hope he rots in jail," said Slash, the former Guns N' Roses...
- Tags: Resource, Attorney, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Acer Aspire X1200-U1520A
- The Acer Aspire X1200 line of minidesktops fits budget PC components inside a compact case and offers some features that let it act as a light home theater companion. Our $450 review model came with a dual-core AMD processor, 4GB of memory, and 64-bit Windows Vista, which make it...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Semiconductors, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, Consumer electronics, Aspire X1200, Acer Inc., video, chip
- Product reviews 2008-09-02
- VMware's R&D chief quits after 9 months
- VMware said Tuesday that its executive vice president of research and development has resigned after nine months on the job. In a terse statement, VMware said that Richard Sarwal quit to go back to Oracle. Sarwal joined VMware in December 2007. VMware CEO Paul...
- Tags: Stock Option, Security, Amount, R&D, Stock, Employment, Agreement, VMware Inc., Company, RSU, Control, Change, Cause, Person, Stock Options, Investment, Benefits, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- StatusHQ: another Twitter clone for enterprise
- Â Twitter clones are starting to come out the woodwork. The latest candidate is StatusHQ, which surfaced last Friday and which my pal Luis Suarez describes as: "What Twitter could have been." Maybe, maybe not. The central premise behind StatusHQ is that individuals can...
- Tags: Twitter, StatusHQ, Susan, Pete, UI, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Sarbanes-Oxley, Business Structures, RSS, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Follow that robot!
- Three years after the development of robots that act like rats, UC Davis engineers have designed a control system for robots allowing them to pick up on cues that the leader is about to turn, predict where it is going and follow it. This system mimics the human ability to...
- Tags: Cue, Leader, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Windows Live Messenger 9: my new best friend
- Windows Live Messenger 9: my new best friendCryptic?Whats with the secret message in the article?RE: Windows Live Messenger 9: my new best friendLiveSide...I see its still stuffed with adverts......thats one reason not to consider it..RE: Windows Live Messenger 9: my new best friendIt's the only way they keep the software...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Web site development, Windows Live Messenger 9, new best friend, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-09-01
- Partnoy's Complaint
- Partnoy's ComplaintI don't think Wall Street will take that bet....Wall Street bets on financial performance, not processor performance. A bet on pure processor performance, assuming we can agree on a measure for that, would ignore all kinds of financial issues with the companies involved.Why is performance significant?Are sales determined by...
- Tags: Performance management, Financial accounting, financial, performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Partnoy
- Discussion threads 2008-08-30
- Actions speak louder than words and the message is disheartening
- Here's a rhetorical question: If you're holding a seminar about the benefits of green technology strategy, should you really be giving away a gas card as one of the incentives to sign up? I thought not. For shame! But, as Forrester Research points out in a new...
- Tags: Global Warming, Forrester Research Inc., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-30
- JavaScript 2.0: Why Give Programmers Crutches?
- [Guest Comment from Shane Steinert-Threlkeld] A new spec on which JavaScript 2.0 will be based , should be finalized by the end of the fall. Yet most of the proposed changes do close to nothing to actually improve the language. A lot of...
- Tags: JavaScript, Programmer, JavaScript 2.0, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
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