Gordon Glorfield wrote: > BTW My apologies to our non-USA list members as this is only > pertinent to US operations. Sometimes I forget we are not all in the > USA.
Actually Gordon, while the legal responsibilities of compliance with USA regulations only apply to USA companies, I can easily see initiatives for SOA compliance driving non-USA companies that do business with USA public companies. I'm no expert on the matter, but it seems to me that change will be (or should be) driven from the top-downward to ensure compliance, and that means vendors, partners, and even some customers of these public companies may be requested or mandated to make changes in IT and/or manual procedures. So all of you foreigners and grinning private companies out there better look out. ;) I've seen a couple comments here that tell me that some people have a different understanding of SOA than I do - I have no idea who's right. I'm under the impression that SOA doesn't just mean approvals need to be recorded, but that much stricter auditing need to be done of any physical process or policy which affect the bottom line. That means creating lots of cross-index files, periodic balancing of summary to detail, and some decent drill-down/reporting into all of this data. When someone asks where that bottom line came from, it's management's neck on the line if they can't click a few times to show the detail. The terms data warehouse, cube, ETL, and BI come to mind. Which is what we/MV are very good at once we write the code. We'll see how far it goes when management types actually do their reading and then get serious. I don't think we (consulting community and IT staff) have been asked by our clients/managers to make driving changes yet, simply because there are lot of CxO types still ignoring SOA or still trying to figure out how deep it really goes. Perhaps the thing to do is to contact the CxO's with whom you have influence and ask them if there is anything you can or should be doing to help them get through this. I hope our resident expert, Susan Joslyn, can provide some insight. Tony Nebula R&D ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
