Governance/compliance.OpenPages, a provider of enterprise governance and compliance management solutions, is offering extended capabilities for monitoring Sarbanes-Oxley compliance processes through an Integrated Software Separate software components or applications that have been combined into one package. See integrated software package. Vendor Partner agreement with Hyperion Solutions Hyperion Solutions Corporation is a business performance management software company, located in Santa Clara, California, USA. Many of its products are targeted at the Business Intelligence and Business performance management market. Corp., a global leader in business performance management (BPM) software. OpenPages will combine its Sarbanes-Oxley Express (SOX (1) (Schema for Object-oriented XML) An XML schema developed by Veo Systems and Muzino Communications, which was submitted to the W3C. SOX is based on DTD, but adds data typing and reuse mechanisms. Express) and Hyperion Performance Suite to provide corporate management with better insight into the state of company operations and greater confidence for quarterly Sarbanes-Oxley assertions required for compliance. Companies can leverage this insight to bolster business performance. Hyperion Performance Suite, Hyperion says, "provides an intuitive, Web-based dashboard interface that enables every employee across the enterprise to benefit from insightful analyses and reports." Leveraging data from existing enterprise systems, Hyperion Performance Suite provides users with sophisticated query and analysis capabilities that turn raw data into information useful for understanding and making decisions that leverage business opportunities. OpenPages' SOX Express is an enterprise compliance management solution intended to reduce the time and resource costs associated with compliance for Sections 302 and 404. SOX Express is a focused enterprise application that OpenPages says "combines powerful document and business process management with flexible reporting capabilities in an extremely easy-to-use environment that enables CEOs, CFOs and financial management officers to enforce internal controls." SOX Express helps corporations automate significant aspects of their internal controls framework. Its dashboards can be used by project managers, documentation team members, internal auditors Internal auditor An employee of a company who analyzes the company's accounting records to that the company is following and complying with all regulations. and external auditors The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. to plan, document and test a company's internal controls, and eventually to attest To solemnly declare verbally or in writing that a particular document or testimony about an event is a true and accurate representation of the facts; to bear witness to. To formally certify by a signature that the signer has been present at the execution of a particular writing so as to the financial statements. In April, OpenPages acquired the technology and assets of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Sarbanes-Oxley compliance software business and received an endorsement from PwC that its clients should transition as rapidly as possible to SOX Express. Since June 2003, OpenPages says it has signed more than 50 global 2000 customers--including Viacom, Becton Dickinson BD (NYSE: BDX), is a medical technology company that manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems and reagents. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, BD employs 27,000 people in nearly 50 countries. and AT & T Wireless, and claims to be the most popular SOX compliance vendor. Web: www.openpages.com; www.hyperion.com |
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