As
a corporate board member,
you already are aware of the
new requirements and urgency of SEC Regulatory Compliance. The
new requirements to attest to the reliability your corporation’s
underlying business systems and withstand the scrutiny of an independent
audit of these systems should be a vital concern (Sarbanes-Oxley
2002 Sec. 404).
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Benefits:
The short-list |
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“There
is probably no single investment that a corporation can make
that has the value of risk mitigation and competitive performance
factors like DB-Examiner”. Ellen Birch, Enterprise
Architect |
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Risk
Mitigation |
confidence
in the underlying information technology infrastructure
that is used to manage and document the financial and operational
systems in the company
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Competitive
Advantage |
enhanced
business continuance capabilities based on regular test
and review of the database as an element in the high availability
and disaster recovery plans of the company
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Competitive
Intelligence |
unparalleled
capabilities to rapidly assess the quality and validity of
a merger or acquisition prospects underlying systems |
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Quality
and Efficiency |
risk
mitigation and maximized performance benefits from systems
designed from the onset with the right tools to ensure operational
integrity |
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The
devil is in the detail
It may seem unusual for a corporate director to deal with
detail technology such as the schema of a
database; but nothing could be further from the truth. The database is the heart
of the business applications that track and report the business of the corporation.
The foundation of the database is the schema. The schema is,
essentially, where the business rules and logic for the business systems begin.
The schema
is a single point-of-failure element in the hierarchy of IT infrastructure.
If the schema is flawed, or outdated, the results and reports from the systems
that rely on the database may be suspect. Flaws
in
the schema are the result of intentional and unintentional modifications that
are made to
the database
throughout its lifecycle. |
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