Managing Governance, Risk and Compliance with Enterprise Content Management

U.S. companies have been subjected to an ever-increasing amount of regulation in the past five years, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which applies to all U.S. publicly traded companies, is perhaps chief among these new regulations. Regulatory compliance has always been included in the cost of doing business. However, companies must find new tools and technologies to facilitate the compliance process and to then enhance the cost effectiveness and efficiency of their compliance. “Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Compliance: From Project to Sustainability” (FERF: November 2005) documents some of these efforts. Companies are looking for solutions to help them comply with regulatory requirements to make these requirements less burdensome. Additionally, these solutions should have the flexibility to integrate with legacy or future line-ofbusiness systems.