Certification routes never stay the same because of constant organizational changes.

Building certification routes is as easy as dragging and dropping icons on a page. Customize any route as processes and responsibilities change.

It's difficult to get executives and other key people to complete or verify surveys and attestations.

Provides automatic tasking, e-mail notification, and escalation for any document or forms-based process. Its Web-based platform allows users to do their tasks from virtually anywhere.

Voluminous SOX records are scattered across different locations. They are hard to retrieve, easily misplaced, and hard to modify, especially in a manual system.

Provides a single repository for all SOX compliance records, making search and retrieval easy. Risks, controls, and tests are linked for traceability.

There's a potential for unauthorized changes to SOX documentation. It's difficult to determine if changes are being made by the appropriate control.

Allows you to control access to critical documentation, testing, and certifications by configuring users' rights and roles. With MasterControl's audit capability, there's a record of each access to any information.

As processes change and/or are reassigned to different process owners, maintaining a coherent history of SOX compliance can be overwhelming.

Through the Organizer tool, documents can be easily rearranged for subsequent compliance work without changing the documents themselves, saving hours of reorganizing. Similarly, archived documents can be rearranged through a different Organizer, preserving the original document groupings, yet properly showing a history of the new process.

( SOX Section 409: Real-time Disclosure )
It takes too much time and effort to maintain constant readiness to be able to rapidly report any sudden and significant changes in a company's financial condition or operations.

Provides templates from previous disclosures, which you can easily modify for a quick response to an emerging issue that requires a release. Your SOX compliance history will always be accessible and easy to update within a system that you can control and monitor.

( SOX Section 802: Criminal Penalties for Altering Documents)
Without an audit trail, tracing document changes can be difficult, if not impossible, and proving the integrity of documents can be an issue.

In addition to restriction of access based on users' rights and roles, MasterControl maintains a time-stamped audit trail that documents the identity of anyone who creates, modifies, or deletes an electronic record, when the action occurred, and the changes made to the record.