The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has dramatically heightened standards for financial reporting for US public companies with a market capitalization over $75 million. The majority of data that makes up financial reports is generated by IT and its related processes. Therefore, it is critical that the effectiveness of these processes can be verified, typically through an IT audit. By having well defined standards and procedures that can be verified, CEO's and CFO's can be confident that the reports they are certifying came from well maintained and error free software applications. The MKS Integrity Solution is a multi-platform process management and Software Configuration Management (SCM) solution that can help you achieve reliable process control and repeatability.
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