Few public companies today are completely prepared for the new requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, which brings unprecedented scrutiny of enterprise IT systems by independent auditors. To ensure (certify and prove) information quality, one must examine and manage the underlying data structures, terminology and taxonomies that comprise metadata. Alarmingly, roughly half of the affected corporations do not have a compliant internal control environment for their information systems, which include metadata at the core. This paper outlines how enterprise metadata management pertains to, and prepares for, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
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