In regard to radio frequency identification tag technology for inventory control, IDC said: "By year-end, it will be obvious that it will take more than mandates from Wal-Mart or the Department of Defense to drive the kind of money and time...
A section of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act took effect on Monday, part of new accounting regulations that promise to be a multimillion-dollar bonanza for security companies. John Hagerty, vice-president of research at AMR, said in a statement: "Technology...
That's because the regulations laid down in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other laws hold executives' feet to the fire, making them responsible for signing off on the accuracy of their financial statements.
Complying with regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may have diverted money away from revenue-generating IT projects but it has forced business to get their technical houses in order, according to a senior IT manager at investment bank...
That is, if your corporate policies (or government mandates) dictate that certain information will be kept for a very long time, make sure that any related data is stored in a format that will still be readable in five, ten, twenty years, etc.
Industrial gases group BOC said it faces higher than expected costs, totalling around £20m, over the next two years in order to bring the company into full compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) corporate governance regulations.