In the wake of scandals such as Enron, corporate-compliance legislation such as Basel II and Sarbanes Oxley was drafted to ensure that companies get their houses in order. At the heart of the technology issues where compliance is concerned is...
CEOs are primarily responsible for corporate compliance to the outside world, but Alan Whitfield, CTO at IT consultancy The Yellow Team, said that data protection is "right at the CIO's door" in a recent roundtable discussion in London.
Two-thirds of businesses claim they have the technology and processes in place to ensure compliance with corporate governance legislation such as Sarbanes Oxley (Sox) and Basel II. But the research, sponsored by finance systems vendor Coda...
New compliance and accounting regulations are helping to drive down the number of firms who use unlicensed and counterfeit software, according to Microsoft. However, while licensing compliance is getting better at the top, Baker said there is still...
The UK IT industry has renewed attempts to tackle a poor track record on government IT projects by beefing up its code of practice with new compliance guidelines that allow customers to assess vendors' performance.
Many compliance experts are seeing BI as a way to hone that. One of the most significant implementation problems from a compliance perspective is retaining all the documentation surrounding the report, Price explains.