eLustroHarmony empowers internal auditors to measure the health of internal controls across the enterprise. The risk based control self-assessment approach of eLustroHarmony decentralizes the compliance efforts by involving functional owners in the audit process. By providing a universal yardstick to measure the appropriateness and effectiveness of the targeted controls, eLustroHarmony offers a standard for setting goals and comparing results for internal controls across disparate enterprise-wide functions. Executive Dashboard can readily provide actionable information related to internal control status and risk areas to the decision makers.

eLustroHarmony helps in managing the following key information and procedures for internal control environment and audit universe:
•    Program Management: Management of assessment programs for measuring the health of internal controls
•    Risk and Control Catalog Management: Classification of internal controls based on likelihood and impact of the related risk areas
•    Issue Tracking: Communicating with Process owners
•    Control Assessments: Recording and handling of exceptions resulting from assessment programs
•    Monitoring and Reporting: Documentation of internal controls for Sarbanes Oxley Act certification
•    Executive Dashboard: Analyzing the overall maturity of internal control environment for suitability and effectiveness

"As companies iterate towards the internal control infrastructure mandated by section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley act, they need a way to benchmark their progress and pinpoint laggards in the organization" said Alex Veytsel, Research Analyst, Aberdeen Group. "By collecting and aggregating control information across the enterprise, InfoSTEP's eLustroHarmony is helping them achieve these measurement objectives."

"Organizations need a unified measurement system to measure and improve the health of their Internal Control Environments to attain sustainable compliance", says Sagar Anisingaraju, CEO of InfoSTEP Inc. "The Control Maturity Model in eLustroHarmony provides an assessment and measurement process that decentralizes the compliance activities to where they belong: Functional Owners across the enterprise".

"Utilizing the Java platform and the core Sun ONE technologies to build the application framework for Risk Management and Compliances, InfoSTEP offers an enterprise class deployment environment for Sarbanes Oxley compliance requirements" said Joe Keller, vice president of marketing, Java Web services and tools, Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) "Organizations can now implement their Risk Management Programs on an open, highly secure and manageable platform, while driving sustainable compliance across their enterprise systems."


About InfoSTEP
With headquarters in Santa Clara, California, InfoSTEP has been providing pioneering software solutions to the global enterprises since 1998. InfoSTEP's eLustro product suite is successfully deployed at several enterprises including Cisco Systems, Oki Semiconductors & Sun Microsystems. eLustroHarmony is a Risk Management and Control Assurance application built on top of eLustro suite.

For more details about the company, please visit: http://harmony.elustro.com

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