IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting V2.5.1 adds flexibility to control reporting
IBM United States Software Announcement 205-171July 26, 2005
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IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting is for companies looking to more effectively manage their business controls environment in a flexible and sustainable manner. This software solution helps provide a common platform for companies to easily document, evaluate, and report the status of controls management across multiple initiatives in an enterprise. Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting can help simplify risk assessment and control management by addressing a wide range of business control related challenges while helping to reduce costs and complexity. This technology innovation marks a dramatic step forward to help companies move from compliance to general controls management.
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| Overview |
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An end-to-end solution, IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting V2.5.1 provides an
integrated controls-management platform for companies to easily document, evaluate, and report the
status of controls management across multiple initiatives in the enterprise. The solution is based
on an open controls environment which is fully compatible with the Integrated Internal Control
framework from COSO and the CoBIT internal control framework from the IT Governance Institute, as
well as other internal control frameworks from international organizations. This offering helps
reduce the cost and complexity of business controls management by using a single tool to meet
multiple requirements as companies move from compliance to general controls management.
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| Key prerequisites |
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Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.
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| Planned availability dates |
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- August 5, 2005: Electronic software delivery — English only
- September 9, 2005: Media and documentation
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| Description |
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IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting is a portal-based collaborative Web application designed to assist companies in their efforts to assess internal controls. Companies can now increase their focus on the management of disparate forms of information available in real time to help improve decision making and resolve issues which affect business performance. With IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting, process owners and CFOs and others in the financial reporting chain have role-based access to crucial data. To ensure corporate control policies and timelines are met, customized e-mail notifications are available and instant messaging may be used to accelerate exception resolution.
IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting V2.5.1 can help improve the control management process. Examples include:
Managing organizational change:
- Allowing dynamic updates.
- Allowing customization of the labels within the tool to match their corporate culture and communication style.
- Seamless integration with corporate intranets.
- Enhancing data import capabilities, including directly from Microsoft™ Excel.
- Ability to import testing procedures directly to avoid duplication and help ensure consistency across units.
- Importing data with default owners.
Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting provides a dynamic work environment in a single, scalable, reliable platform that can be easily deployed. The solution helps provide visibility into a company's internal controls and business processes to help respond more efficiently and effectively to new legislative requirements, now and in the future. Role-based access to disclosure controls documents, internal controls matrices, testing procedures and results, residing in a single repository, helps individuals to quickly identify issues and help mitigate risks. Capabilities are modular in approach and can be expanded, as required, to meet changing business needs.
What's new
- Increased flexibility for executive views with embedded reporting and analytic capabilities from DB2® Alphablox (limited use license)
- Simplified audit reporting with expanded documentation and evaluation features
- Speeds time-to-value with simplified deployment
- Accelerates exception resolution and Sarbanes-Oxley process management with integrated process and task management and helps address other SOX sections (for example, 302 or 409)
- Tailored solution to help support compliance with U.S. Federal OMB A 123 Revision
- Has variety of deployment options to meet any environment or budget
Supporting the entire controls-management process
IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting V2.5.1 can be an important part of the overall business-controls-management process. It provides the ability to effectively document, evaluate, and report on internal controls while producing an audit trail to track key changes. The capability for shared controls helps reduce testing efforts by allowing users to share evaluation results across business units and processes. The solution includes certification capability at the business unit and process levels, providing accountability for business unit and process owners — giving them a mechanism by which to certify that business units and processes are meeting company standards, and to provide certification comments following review of controls.
Taking a collaborative, role-based approach to controls reporting
IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting creates a role-based work environment that allows users to view information specific to their roles within the controls-management process. In addition, users can manage and share control documents, such as organizational charts, policies, and standard operating procedures, in a security-rich environment. Collaboration capabilities can help teams resolve issues and share information quickly with real-time communication through instant messaging, online discussions and meetings, and automatic e-mail alerts.
All content related to processes and business controls, as well as documents defining policies and procedures or compliance processes, can be stored in the solution's controls database. This database can be accessed through the IBM Workplace portal by internal staff, auditors, external legal counsel, and others, as required and defined by your company. And the solution can generate reports regarding events so that your company can easily assess the effectiveness of its control activities — and determine what modifications, if any, are necessary.
Note: Customers are responsible for ensuring their own compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. It is the customer's sole responsibility to obtain advice of competent legal counsel as to the identification and interpretation of any relevant laws, including but not limited to, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, that may affect the customer's business and any actions the customer may need to take to comply with such laws. IBM does not provide legal, accounting, or audit advice or represent or warrant that its services or products will ensure that the customer is in compliance with any law.
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
Hardware server requirements
Hardware
Server Server purpose minimum
1 IBM WebSphere(R) CPU: P4 Intel(TM)
Portal Server
RAM: 2 GB
Disk: 60 GB
configured for
RAID 1
Hardware
Server Server purpose minimum
2 IBM Content Manager CPU: P4
Server (optional
based on RAM: 2 GB
configuration)
Disk: 2x18 GB
configured for
RAID 1 for OS
and swap, 4x36
GB configured
for RAID 1 for
database and
object storage.
3 Reporting Server CPU: P3 1 GHz
RAM: 512 MB
Disk: 1 GB free
4 DB2(R) Server CPU: P3 1 GHz
RAM: 512 MB
Disk: 1 GB free
Rich client hardware requirements
The minimum rich client processor and memory requirements are as follows:
- Intel Pentium™ 3 processor, 800 MHz
- 512 MB RAM
To reduce client startup time, you can use an Intel Pentium 4 processor and increase the amount of memory to, for example, 1 GB. This increase in processor speed and memory do not provide significant performance gains after startup.
Disk space recommendations for the rich client are described in the following table.
Recommended
Installation scenario disk space
Document editors not installed 350 MB
Document editors installed 600 MB
without language pack
Document editors installed with 700 MB
language pack
Software requirements
Client requirements
- Microsoft™ Internet Explorer 6.1 (Windows™)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2® (Windows)
- Mozilla 1.7
Software server requirements
Operating system
and application
Server Server purpose software
1 IBM WebSphere Microsoft
Portal and Windows 2000
LDAP Server Server or
Advanced Server
with Service
Pack 4
Microsoft
Windows 2003
Server
IBM AIX(R) V5.2
IBM WebSphere
Portal Server
Extend V5.1.0.1
with included
WebSphere
Application
Server V5.1.1.4
IBM DB2 UDB EE
V8.1 with
Fixpack 5,
client only
IBM Workplace
for Business
Controls and
Reporting
supports all
LDAP Servers
supported by IBM
WebSphere Portal
Server Extend
V5.1.0.1
2 IBM Content Microsoft
Manager Server Windows 2000
with Service
Pack 4
IBM AIX V5.2
IBM Content
Manager V8.2
Fixpack 6 or
Fixpack 7
IBM DB2
Universal
DataBase EE V8.1
with Fixpack 6a
IBM WebSphere
App Server V5.0
with Fixpacks to
V5.0.2 with
included IBM
HTTP Server and
IBM JVM V1.3.1
License Use
Management
V6.4.4
Operating system
and application
Server Server purpose software
Microsoft Visual
C++ V6 or V7
(Windows),
Visual Age C++
V5 (AIX)
3 Reporting Crystal
Server Enterprise 10
Microsoft
Windows 2000
Server or
Advanced Server
with Service
Pack 4
Microsoft
Windows 2003
Server
IBM AIX V5.2
IBM HTTP Server
IBM DB2 UDB EE
V8.1 with
Fixpack 6a,
client only
4 DB2 Server Microsoft
Windows 2000
with Service
Pack 4
Microsoft
Windows 2003
Server
IBM AIX V5.2
IBM DB2 Universal
Database EE V8.1
with Fixpack 6a
Compatibility: Not applicable
Planning information
Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Software Subscription and Technical Support, is included in the Passport Advantage Agreement. Installation and technical support is provided by the Software Maintenance offering of the IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement. This fee service enhances customer productivity, with voice and electronic access into IBM support organizations.
Packaging
IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting V2.5.1 will be distributed via a media package and electronic software distribution (ESD). It is distributed in one package with the following:
- IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting V2.5.1 product CD
- Prerequisite software CDs
- Soft copy product documentation including README files are included on the product CDs
Security, auditability, and control
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features,
administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication
facilities.
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Product information
Licensed Product group Product category function title IBM Workplace for IBM Workplace IBM Workplace for Business Controls Business Controls and Reporting and Reporting Tool
IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting is priced on a 25 user pack basis.
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- When multiple, unique registries exist, the registries will be additive for charging purposes even if a specific ID exists in both registries.
- An ID can establish one or more connections and count as a single user.
Passport Advantage program licenses
IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting
Part
Part description number
IBM Workplace for Business
Controls and Reporting
Business Controls and Report 25 Users D53ZILL
License & SW Maintenance 12 Months
Business Controls and Report 25 Users E01C7LL
SW Maintenance Annual Renewal
Business Controls and Report 25 Users D53ZJLL
SW Maintenance Reinstatement 12 Mont
Passport Advantage supply
Part
Program name/description number
Bus Ctrls and Rpt V2.5.1
Media Pack Multilingual (English BU00SML
International, French, Korean, Chinese --
Simplified, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian,
German, Japanese, Chinese -- Traditional,
Italian) Windows 2000, AIX 5L, V5 CD-ROM
Digital Disk -- ISO 9660 Standard V2.5.1
Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
Bus Ctrls and Rpt V2.5.1
Entitled
maintenance
offerings Media packs Part
description description number
IBM Workplace Bus Ctrls and Rpt BU00SML
for Business Multilingual (English
Controls and International, French,
Reporting Korean, Chinese --
25 User Simplified, Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German, Japanese,
Chinese -- Traditional,
Italian) Windows 2000,
AIX 5L, V5 CD-ROM
Digital Disk -- ISO
9660 Standard
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Licensing: IBM International Program License Agreement. Proofs of Entitlement (PoE) are required for all authorized use.
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License information form number
Program
Program name number Form number
IBM Workplace for 5724-I30 L-JDIS-5W9MGT
Business Controls
and Reporting
Limited warranty applies: Yes
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