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Reducing SOX compliance costs in the IBM Lotus
Notes/Domino Environment
Ian Smith, President, Teamstudio
Abstract
The IBM Lotus Notes/Domino platform does not lend itself easily to process automation or adherence to compliance standards, but new systems and techniques are now making that vision a reality.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 brought the most dramatic changes to United States federal securities laws since the 1930s. Its impact on IT has been and continues to be enormous—requiring documentation and controls, not only of financial data, but also of the software that processes the data.
For many IBM Lotus Notes/Domino development organizations, SOX-related controls are manual and detective rather than automated and preventive. Not only have these processes added significant costs to the software development lifecycle, but they cost even more to audit, cause significant application deployment delays and place a drag on business operations. The time has come to reevaluate these processes and apply automation wherever possible in order to mitigate costs and provide the Lotus Notes platform with a robust, efficient and long-term solution.
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