Compliance is all about demonstrating enterprise integrity. With the passing of Sarbanes Oxley legislation, the integrity of the computing infrastructure is now playing a large and important compliance role. Companies that embrace compliance as an opportunity to strengthen IT and business operations will reap significant business benefits. This paper discusses how successful IT compliance execution depends on collaboration between IT, and the financial and auditing staff; implementing tools that are flexible enough to work in complex environments with intricate reporting requirements; and minimizing the cost of performing compliance activities. The paper also outlines additional IT and business benefits achievable through compliance-related technology, including security improvements, problem resolution and problem prevention.
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