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02/28/2005
HandySoft Global Corporation announced the release of version 3.0 of its Sarbanes-Oxley Accelerator (SOXA). Working to meet the compliance needs of its growing list of Global 500 customers, HandySoft, a provider of business process management (BPM) solutions, said it has dramatically enhanced the user-interface and increased the flexibility of its best-in-class assessment software tool for internal controls. Most importantly, SOXA Accelerator 3.0 seeks to help companies lower costs and standardize their approach to sustained SOX compliance for financial controls as well as for broader assessment of controls over operations and IT.
"More than 700 companies have invested in [Sarbanes-Oxley] solutions to meet compliance for the initial Section 404 cycle [in 2004]. We will see an even stronger second wave of software adoption in 2005 by companies that elected to comply initially with in-house and auditor tools," noted Paul Hamerman, Vice President, Enterprise Applications at Forrester Research. "Their objective in automating internal controls compliance will be to make the process repeatable and sustainable in future years. In addition, the more sophisticated solutions are designed to involve a wider variety of users beyond internal auditors, adding transparency and collaboration."
"Most of the high risk associated with Sarbanes-Oxley relates to the challenges stemming from the management of the human touch points of the compliance process," said Stuart Claggett, chief operating officer of HandySoft Global Corporation. "By offering companies the best-in-class ease- of-use Assessment Software Tool on the market today, our customers are quickly deploying a solution to mitigate compliance risks in a cost-effective and sustainable manner. Moreover, by offering our customers a tool developed on an enterprise class BPM platform, in the longer term, our SOXA Accelerator clients can benefit from active control remediation ensuring consistent performance of controls while lowering ongoing costs and improving business process efficiencies."
Handysoft said the SOXA Accelerator 3.0 lays the foundation for managing compliance over internal controls. The company said that through active control enforcement, the SOXA Accelerator 3.0 delivers long-term ROI. Compliance is embedded inside business processes to ensure controls are performed consistently, lowering the ongoing costs of both testing and remediation activities, Handysoft said.
Handysoft enumerated the expanded capabilities of SOXA Accelerator 3.0:
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