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Goodbye, SOX?

Goodbye, SOX?What! No!The "Credit Crunch" meant nothing to me, but kill SOX and who will pay my outrageous SOX consulting fees.I'll be ruined!It's about time.Sarbox is a failure. The Siemens corruption case was in complliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.You don't have to look far to see that Congress knows nothing about...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbox, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, goodbye

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Siemens, bribery & SarbOx

Siemens, bribery & SarbOxGood people run good companiesThe law cannot make a company run ethically, only legally. Many of these post-Enron compliance mechanisms only offer accounting compliance. In this case it looks like it did just that -- everyone knew they spent $x as an "expenditure" -- but...

Tags: Siemens AG, Sarbox, bribe

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

Satyam â€" Time for a real (early) Spring Cleaning

A Holiday Gift for Litigators? Could this be the story of the year for 2009? The news about Satyam in the last few days has been disconcerting, to say the least, and it has thrown a cloud of doubt on the Indian services...

Tags: Satyam, Upaid, SarbOx, Corporate Governance, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Real Estate, Investment, Outsourcing, Business Operations, Corporate Law, It Operations, Finance, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Will Sarbox change ding IT vendors?

The Securities and Exchange Commission tweaked its Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and that could be bad news for the technology companies, consultants and accountants on the Sarbox gravy train. The SEC said Wednesday that it was making changes to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, known in some quarters as the accountant and consultant employment...

Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-05-24

SarbOx Changes - Good for Corporates, Bad for IT

Eric Savitz in a Barron's Online blog reports that on Wednesday the SEC approved new guidance on how to implement Section 404 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act. Section 404 is the portion of SarbOx that required CEOs to sign off on the documentation and effectiveness on internal controls and processes...

Tags: Business Models, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2007-05-24

Additional Resources

Is your supply chain gonna kill you?

Jason Busch has an excellent post: Friday Rant: Beyond SarbOx -- Waiting for the Big One to Hit . I'm betting few people want to talk about this particular hot potato. Please don't choke on your early morning coffee. He says: Then as now [when SarbOx was enacted], companies...

Tags: Supply Chain, International Financial Reporting Standards, Audit, Jason Busch, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-04

Alfresco agonistes

Alfresco agonistesThe race to zero is almost completeIt is getting harder and harder to see viable business plans for open source. The recession which were supposed to be so great for open source is having the opposite effect: Instead of customers rushing to the open source model with "paid support",...

Tags: COMPANIES, open source, Alfresco

Discussion threads 2009-05-17

Macs rule; PCs drool

Macs rule; PCs drooli totally agree!!i have windows xp, but i started out with vista, and it just so happend that my hard drive went out and my hubs fit into my laptop. his laptop went out in 1 yr, right after the warranty went out, mine went out, right...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh, Macs rule, PC

Discussion threads 2009-02-05

FmPro Script Diff 1.38 (Mac)

FmPro Script Diff compares, edits, searches and stores FileMaker ScriptMaker scripts - outside the FileMaker database. Changed scripts are compared on a line-by-line basis and displayed with color coded tags to the left of each modified line. Interline changes are also highlighted to indicate Changed, Added or Deleted text. Each...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Script, Filemaker Inc., FmPro Script Diff, Interline Change, XML, Storage, Databases, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-01-15

News to know: Windows 7; Twitter phishing; Apple; Floppies

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: The bell tolls for your magnetic media Robin Harris: Long-term personal data storage Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First reactions to Windows 7 ...

Tags: Floppy Disk, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Inc., Twitter, Microsoft Windows, Phishing, Operating Systems, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Software, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Siemens, bribery & SarbOx

How much money can you fit in a briefcase? The Economist, 12/20/2008, reported that Siemens pleaded guilty to bribery and corruption charges. They also agreed to pay fines of $800 million USD in the US and an additional 395 million Euros in Germany. ...

Tags: Siemens AG, Bribery, Taxes, Free Trade, Sarbanes-Oxley, Financial Planning, Finance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-04

Book review: The Rise of the Project Workforce

More than this book, does your services group have compelling IP? At a recent PSVillage event, a senior executive of Tenrox gave me a copy of Rudolf Melik’s book “The Rise of the Project Workforceâ€� (Wiley ISBN 978-0-470-12430-7). Rudolf is a co-founder of Tenrox â€" a PSA...

Tags: Tenrox, Service, Workforce, Rudolf, PSA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Intellectual Property, Leadership, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead

Governments all across the world are responding to the current financial crisis with a range of nationalization initiatives, and increased support of various parts of the financial services industry through guarantees and pumping in increased liquidity. You know what it means when there's more government involvement with...

Tags: Enterprise Architecture, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Government, Information Technology, Joe McKendrick, Management, Regulations, Strategy

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Server Room Security, Data Control, and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 SarbOx was established specifically to address financial reporting for public companies. The accounting data that is the foundation for this financial reporting is invariably electronic-based, and as a result, needs to be adequately protected and controlled, both for the corporation's benefit as well as to...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Data, Server, Server Room, Medeco High Security Locks, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance

White papers 2008-07-15

INVOICES 5-5 and SOX Compliance Support

The acronym SOX is often encountered in meetings and in requests for information or proposals. It is an important topic today, and there are many interpretations of it. This paper shows that when purchasing products that affect financial documentation, it is important to select products that support SOX conformity -...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SOX Compliance, ReadSoft, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

White papers 2008-06-01

The data center on your desktop

The data center on your desktopRE: The data center on your desktopGood,I need a data center on my desktop to tidy unorderly information.big problem with this...Our company has been migrating to laptops away from desktops over the last two years. Most people take their laptops home.Almost 100% of IT does....

Tags: Data centers, Desktops, Storage, WHS, desktop, data center

Discussion threads 2008-01-31

SarbOx Changes - Good for Corporates, Bad for IT Vendors

SarbOx Changes - Good for Corporates, Bad for IT VendorsWhy is this bad?IT work for SarbOx is painful. I would rather be doing work that contributes to the bottom line. There is still plenty of this, especially for people who can do quantitative analysis. If I help...

Tags: Strategy, SarbOx Changes, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-06-15

News to know: Facebook; Apple and Cisco patches

Notable headlines:Facebook's new platform:Dan Farber: Facebook: The social Web utility company. Facebook's Zuckerberg uncorks the social graph. Facebook: We just want to share information more efficientlyFacebook welcomes outside services. Video.Steve O'Hear: More thoughts on Facebook's new platform.Donna Bogatin: Who needs Facebook? Students fight back.Techmeme roundup.George Ou: Is the Drobo 'storage...

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-05-25

Will Sarbox change ding IT vendors?

Will Sarbox change ding IT vendors?Integrated, not separateAny decent technology consultant incorporates SOX compliance into their solutions that they provide to customers. I often advise my customers on SOX as an additional benefit to whatever technology solution I am providing for them.While there are certainly SOX-dedicated consultants out there,...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Discussion threads 2007-05-24

Compliance: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Sarbanes-Oxley (commonly called "SarbOx" or "SOX") is law today. It was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 2002 in the wake of serious accounting scandals perpetrated by major U.S. corporations. It affects the accounting, financial reporting, and tracking of sales activities for large and small public companies alike, and also...

Tags: Accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Compliance, Biscom, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

White papers 2007-04-17