Practical and Flexible Compliance Tracking with Numara® FootPrints

Today, organizations of all sizes are under pressure to achieve compliance with standards and regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), SAS70, HIPAA, FISMA, and FDA 21 CFR Part 11, among others. Many organizations institute internal governance initiatives that require controls as well. Demonstrating and achieving compliance can be a daunting task that requires documented processes, comprehensive controls and use of multiple resources, including extensive effort from IT and support operations. Leveraging a proactive approach and an effective change management strategy will help eliminate manual and decentralized tracking processes, which are time consuming and often inaccurate. Numara® FootPrints® solutions empower organizations with the ability to effectively manage change and implement controls cost-effectively when: repeatable processes are automated task management is ensured rules-based workflow is implemented access is limited to those who should have it, and compliance tracking delivers complete audit trails and reports that can be used to demonstrate adherence to compliance standards Enable IT staff, stakeholders and customers to participate in automated approval processes via secure e-mail voting and secure web browser access. Keep them informed using automated notifications and global issues. Automate Compliance Tracking with Numara FootPrints Solutions The combined power of Numara FootPrints fully integrated with theNumara FootPrints Change Management add-on module for provides automated change and approval management. It facilitates the process of managing, controlling and tracking change and approval workflow for compliance tracking, among other business processes. These flexible tools reduce the time required to create and document change and approval processes, while increasing accuracy and improve visibility to changes and their potential impact. Define or re-define change and approval processes rapidly with a secure, centralized system that is fast-to-implement and does not require any programming Employ highly customizable workflow and business rule automation to establish internal controls for checks and balances on a change by change basis Tailor customized workflows for different compliance tracking needs and jump start your compliance tracking with built-in templates Configure an unlimited number of approval processes, each with multiple stages with different approvers and automated approval notifications Enable anyone to be an approver securely and dynamically - making it easy to extend and manage change requests throughout your organization Create a complete audit trail of every action taken, by whom and when, enabling your organization to be prepared for audits Generate a complete picture of all pending change requests, their status and deviations Ensure that all changes to the infrastructure are controlled and audited with tight integration between the Numara FootPrints Change Management and FootPrints Configuration Management modules (CMDB). Keep track of change management activity and statuses with customizable, real-time graphical reports Related Links For more information on Numara FootPrints Change Managementclick here For more information on Numara FootPrints download our Numara FootPrints 9 Brochure (PDF) For more information on Numara FootPrints’ support of ITIL best practices and processes supported by Numara FootPrints click here, or download our Numara FootPrints for IT Service Management (ITIL) Brochure (PDF)