Re: Business justification for Oracle db server?

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, damorgan_at_x.washington.edu wrote:

> Assuming your organization is subject to US laws you likely fall under
> the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, or similar. Assuming
> Sarbanes Oxley, quite frankly, use of MS Access and/or Excel is close
> to equivalent to breaking the law and puts your c-level managment at
> risk. Simply put Sarbanes-Oxley requires that all numbers used to
> make and report financial decisions be auditable. It is absolutely
> impossible to audit either MS Access or Excel.

Hey Daniel,

My company's IT department just got slammed by Sarbanes-Oxley. In our new Oracle frontier (I'm the architect of the datawarehouse and ODS) we have a first release that includes Microsoft Access used to do some user updates to our Oracle backend. I'm authoring all of the user_auditing inclusive of Fine-Grained auditing. In subsequent releases we plan on replacing Microsoft Access with a web front-end.

Do you know of any Sarbanes-Oxley that we are violating with just using Access as a user front-end?

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Galen deForest Boyer