MERCURY SARBANES-OXLEY
IT ASSESSMENT ACCELERATOR
Mercury Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment Accelerator™ provides complete
coverage of Sarbanes-Oxley IT requirements through pre-packaged, detailed
test plans for the complete set of more than 320 requirements.
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance requires significant changes to
business processes and controls. Because your company’s key
business processes and controls are most likely automated in
software, your company’s compliance mandates have become IT
mandates.
According to IDC’s 2005 Worldwide Information Management for
Compliance Forecast, $9.5 billion will be spent worldwide this year
on technologies and services to support information management
for compliance. In an era of shrinking IT budgets, this has become a
serious issue.
Control test plan and requirements with pre-packaged requirements and test plans in
Mercury TestDirector® for Quality Center.
Sarbanes-Oxley requires controls across all of your enterprise’s
business processes, financial processes, and IT processes. Mercury
helps you automate all of these controls to cost-effectively improve
your processes and compliance.
Mercury Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment Accelerator provides
complete coverage of Sarbanes-Oxley requirements through pre-
packaged, detailed test plans for the four COBIT™ domains,
comprising the complete set of more than 320 requirements. These
are mapped to Sarbanes-Oxley domains and section numbers.
How it Works
Mercury Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment Accelerator, which depends
upon Mercury Quality Center™, enables you to automate IT for
assessment and audit by managing the entire testing process and
automating testing and documentation. You can also leverage our
pre-packaged content to get started quickly toward your goal of
meeting Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
External auditors who evaluate management’s assessment of
internal controls want to see proof that adequate testing and all
necessary remediation have been completed. At the press of a
button, Mercury automatically produces documentation to support
this verification. Automated scripts reduce the cost of annual testing
by more than 30 percent. Auto-documentation also enables
Sarbanes-Oxley and quality experts to work collaboratively.
With Mercury Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment Accelerator, you can
achieve testing remediation and visibility with traceability from
requirements to defects. Mercury’s dashboard offers drilldown and
visibility across all Sarbanes-Oxley projects. Traceability from
requirements to defects also automates remediation and ensures
complete coverage of all requirements.

A Complete BTO Solution

Mercury’s complete Business Technology Optimization (BTO)
offering enables you to achieve sustainable Sarbanes-Oxley
compliance. By using Mercury to digitize processes, you make
Detailed plans accelerate your Sarbanes-Oxley testing.
these processes repeatable and are able to enforce controls. Your
activities become visible and auditable. This dramatically reduces
the time, cost, and risk associated with compliance.

Mercury Quality Center automates the processes, controls, audits,

and assessments required for sustainable compliance. It provides
automated software testing and quality assurance across a wide
range of IT and application environments.

Offering the first center-of-excellence approach to quality

management, only Mercury Quality Center addresses the needs of
everyone involved in the quality lifecycle process. It combines an
integrated suite of role-based applications, a business dashboard,
and an open, scalable, and extensible foundation — all designed to Get started immediately on Sarbanes-Oxley with tests and requirements prepackaged in
Mercury TestDirector for Quality Center.
optimize and automate key quality activities, including test
management, requirements, and defects tracking; functional testing
FEATURES AND BENEFITS
and regression testing; and business-process design validation.
• Achieve sustainable Sarbanes-Oxley compliance with processes that are
With Mercury Quality Center, you can: repeatable and efficient, lower your cost and reduce your risk, and offer
end-to-end visibility and control.
• Standardize and manage the entire quality process.
• Automate IT for assessment and audit by managing the entire testing
• Improve application quality and reliability. process and automating testing and documentation.
• Leverage pre-packaged requirements and test plans, which include
• Reduce application deployment risk. coverage of all requirements across four COBIT domains, to get off to a
faster start toward Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
Mercury Quality Center is the only unified offering that enables real-
• Support external audits with auto-documentation.
time visibility into key quality indicators, and it’s the only automated
• Improve project and cross-project visibility through Mercury’s dashboard.
solution that manages the entire quality process. It is also the only
solution that provides applications for all key quality roles, including
the business analyst.

Mercury is the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO). We are committed to helping customers optimize the business value of IT.
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