Regulatory compliance.

• Position: Technology Tools - SAS has announced a new software solution

To help companies worldwide comply with the provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley, as well as leverage the process of bringing together and analyzing data from across their operations, SAS has announced a new software solution, SAS [R] Corporate Compliance for Sarbanes-Oxley. The product helps publicly traded organizations satisfy their requirements under Sarbanes-Oxley through an auditable, searchable and authenticated infrastructure that SAS says is flexible enough to prepare organizations for other future governance and compliance requirements.

"SAS's comprehensive analytics and data management capabilities, combined with its workflow module, differentiate SAS Corporate Compliance for Sarbanes-Oxley in the marketplace and enable organizations to address other business needs such as risk management, customer relationship management and performance management," says Julie Rahal, research analyst at IDC.

SAS Corporate Compliance for Sarbanes-Oxley, the company says, allows organizations to evaluate the overall success of their financial systems and performance management strategies. The solution enables rapid and accurate consolidation of financial data from disparate sources--enterprise resource planning (ERP), general ledger and other operational and...