The Office Solution Accelerator for Sarbanes-Oxley offers the following functions:

• Document and information management. Provide intelligent information storage, categorization, and search with Extensible Markup Language (XML) data structuring and a familiar user interface.

• Process automation and workflow. Give employees the appropriate alerts, materials, and routing information needed to initiate and complete tasks.

• Communication and collaboration. Allow timely information sharing between employees, task assignments, and document versioning to make it easier to collaborate on projects.

• Monitoring and reporting. Provide dashboards and reports to monitor project status and enable access to critical data for real-time decision making.

 • Configuration Practices. Learn from practitioners to use the accelerator functionality to facilitate meeting requirements beyond sections 302 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

• System Documentation and Administration Tools. Migrate data from existing Sarbanes-Oxley tools, review system architecture documentation, and utilize tools to effectively maintain and operate the accelerator.

• Compatible with Big Four Auditor Methodologies. Use the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) interpretations of the Big Four Auditors—Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, and Deloitte—in the Office Solution Accelerator for Sarbanes-Oxley.