Compliance Management

Challenge: In today's world organizations are forced to guarantee that their business intelligence applications comply with the regulatory requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley.

Solution

To have an automated toolset to implement effective, secure, and auditable internal controls over the complete BI environment, develeopment and change management process.

Auditing & Security

Change History Reports: Record all activity to enable managers and auditors to report on all application-level changes made by users

Operational History Reports: Record all activity to enable managers and auditors to report on what deployments and other procedures were run by whom and when.

Role-based Security: Enforce separation of duties by defining roles and responsibilities for different users based on organizational requirements and best practices.

Benefits

With NOAD EQM's audit capabilities, internal and external auditors have complete insight in the BI infrastructure, real time and online, with significantly reduced cost.

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HBO

"If we cannot show the auditors that we are in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley it could lead to a lengthier and more costly audit resulting in a lack of faith in the financial reports of the company. This could lead to other control measures having to be implemented or HBO management would not be able to sign off on the financial reports."

Mike Ciance
Enterprise Reporting Manager
HBO

By using EQM from NOAD, HBO has been able to track and ensure the process of setting up, testing, implementing, and deploying BusinessObjects™ is stringently adhered to.
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