Sunday, January 01, 2006

Another wave of compliance


The news beat: If you think compliance was a sticky issue in 2005, just wait until you learn what 2006 and 2007 hold in store. "A whole new level of monitoring and record-keeping software," notes Ephraim Schwartz, in New regulations loom large in 2006. It's not just the existing ones, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, either. A mound of privacy bills waits on Capital Hill, about 20 of them, in fact. Among those is a stack of regulations that could necessitate that companies re-engineer isolated business processes and integrate manufacturing into lifecycle management. "Better start working on that. Now," Schwartz advises.

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