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A Key Ingredient for Compliance Automation

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The recent economic downturn and corporate scandals compounded concerns of corporate accountability and confidence in U.S businesses. To improve shareholder confidence in management’s ability to self-govern, the Federal Government implemented strict regulatory protocols to help restore accountability and improve public as well as shareholder confidence. The primary example of course is the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 which sought lasting eradication of corporate corruption by implementing specific controls across key financial business processes.



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CA WA
Published:  May 12, 2008
Type:  White Paper
Length:  3 pages


White Paper
A Key Ingredient
for Compliance:
Automation
January 2006increased the demand for job scheduling systems to takeThe Challenge: on ever more sophisticated capabilities, including event-The recent economic downturn and corporate scandals driven triggering, where time is considered just anothercompounded concerns of corporate accountability and type of event. For example, changes in the state of an confidence in U.S businesses. To improve shareholder IT service, the arrival of a specific message in the queue confidence in management's ability to self-govern, or the creation of a file are all events that job schedulingthe Federal Government implemented strict regulatory systems must recognize as potential events to trigger jobprotocols to help restore accountability and improve public streams. Enterprise job scheduling systems give organizationsas well as shareholder confidence. The primary example the ability to control IT processes while making themof course is the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 consistent, transparent and reproducible. Organizations which sought lasting eradication of corporate corruption have quickly found the use of heterogeneous job schedulingby implementing specific controls across key financial software products help them achieve the higher levels business processes. of information quality, process repeatability and audit trail documentation required by SOX.The Sarbanes-Oxley Act tightens the corporate governanceresponsibilities of senior management and audit committees, CA Unicenter® Job Management is today's market requiring increased accountability and the disclosure of far leading enterprise job scheduling solution. With overmore financial information than in the past. Specifically, it 6,000 customers worldwide while addressing a myriad makes CEOs and CFOs explicitly responsible for establishing, of challenges across industries, our job managementevaluating and monitoring the effectiveness of internal solutions are crafted towards satisfying diverse needs ofcontrols over financial reporting and disclosure, and today's IT organizations, both large and small. CA Unicenter®requires auditors to attest to management's assessment. Job Management is today's most advanced job schedulingapplication designed to automate critical IT processes As a result, businesses are finding themselves perplexed and workloads intelligently across disparate systems andas to how to effectively implement the necessary control applications to render business processes securely andsystems and measures to ensure compliance and avoid reliably. The CA solution enables compliance and ensurespenalty. The challenge lies in dealing with the additional the transparency of critical IT processes. With built-in IT costs associated with not only the initial re-engineering and award-winning access control capabilities, authorizedand documentation of existing IT and business processes users and management personnel can access the job- but in implementing an infrastructure capable of scheduling system and control their environment. Inproving compliance on an on-going basis, in a cost- addition to transparency, the Unicenter Job Managementeffective manner. solution comes complete with total auditory, logging andSarbanes-Oxley has also galvanized the unity between IT tracking functionality providing organizations with aand the business. Sarbanes-Oxley presents an opportunity complete framework for enabling and ensuring effectiveto re-engineer and improve existing financial business SOX compliance.processes, enhancing information sharing and integrity, while Leveraging CA Unicenter® Job Management's enterprisereducing the associated costs. These types of regulatory breadth, the entire IT operation is documented throughprotocols - HIPAA is a good example of another - have with a secure and complete audit trail. Organizations given rise to the use and exploitation of automation tools can easily track who has performed what task and withdesigned to enhance the visibility, control and performance what outcome. With complete transparency, our jobof critical IT processes. These processes span diverse management solution guarantees businesses compliancesystems and applications, and require sophisticated tools and accountability.in order to satisfy regulatory compliance requirements. CA Unicenter® Job Management solution offers the followingfeatures and benefits, to facilitate the implement... [download for more]

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