Insure that every roll-out of the IBM® Workplace™ Business Controls and Reporting for Sarbanes-Oxley is successful at moving your clients toward compliance by including IBM Workplace Collaborative Learning and 'Ready for Lotus Learning' certified content from award winning learning business partners.
Three Lotus Learning business partners, QuickCompliance, Abreon (2004 Beacon Award winner for e-learning), and Skillsoft stand ready to provide both off-the-shelf and custom content on the Sarbanes-Oxley act. When customers purchase the IBM Workplace Collaborative Learning and the certified training content as part of a SOX solution for Lotus, they get an easy-to-access, portal-based training experience their organization. This training strategy can help insure that the right people get the right training at the right time in order to understand the critical aspects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and how they will need to use the LWBC&R tool to move toward compliance. Tracking and reporting capabilities of the LMS can be used to create detailed reports on who has completed the training as part of any compliance effort.
QuickCompliance - www.quickcompliance.net
QuickCompliance has a well developed, off-the-shelf, blended training strategy that includes their online courseware for SOX and web seminars with industry-recognized compliance experts.
From Dec 2003 announcement:
QuickCompliance delivers authoritative e-Learning content for Sarbanes-Oxley and other corporate governance areas. QuickCompliance's content, developed for the IBM Lotus Workplace Learning Management System (LMS), will enable corporations to train, track and report on corporate governance compliance. QuickCompliance also offers companies the flexibility to create custom-designed courseware for all compliance and regulatory training requirements that can be delivered through the IBM Workplace LMS framework.
"We are pleased to develop content that complements the IBM Workplace initiative specifically for supporting IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting. We believe that the QuickCompliance content for IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting will provide organizations with a comprehensive training and readiness assessment offering that is in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley and corporate governance regulations," said John Danaher, CEO of QuickCompliance.
The Abreon Group - www.abreon.com
The Abreon Group specializes in rapid content development and can create custom learning programs to support customer deployments of SOX compliance programs and systems. They also have off-the-shelf content available as well. They are working with some of our LMS customers in other content areas as well as some of IBM IGS customers.
From Oct 2003 announcement:
"Abreon has the experience and content offerings necessary for challenging compliance requirements," said Andrew Sadler, Director, Workplace Learning Products, IBM. "Their customized focus on communications and employee change adoption will be critical to any organization's compliance readiness programs."
eSOX is SCORM compliant and designed to run on the IBM Lotus Learning Management System. It is specifically focused on communicating and educating Fortune 1000 employees on their organizations' processes and practices related to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. As part of an overall program, eSox delivers the following key benefits:
- Customized content tailored to your corporate processes and practices
- Web-based delivery allowing employees 24/7 access
- Interactive learning scenarios and trackable checkpoints to ensure employee understanding
- Clear metrics to accurately measure the utilization and compliance
- Turn-key solution that can include hosting, consulting services, communication tools, and development of education and support programs that accelerate user adoption and change."
Skillsoft - www.skillsoft.com
Skillsoft offers two courses on Sarbanes Oxley.
Sarbanes-Oxley: Whistleblower Protection (HRO0172)
Course Duration: 1.5 hours
In this course, one learns about the key whistleblower provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the creation of policies and practices that comply with the provisions, and ways to handle whistleblower complaints.
Banking Industry Overview/Description (IND0206)
Course Duration 2.5 hours
This course is designed to help one gain an understanding of the banking industry and the challenges the industry faces. It presents the key issues and trends including regulatory developments and global business drivers, and uses case studies to tease out the key competitive and strategic issues.
