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CIMCON Spreadsheet Compliance Solutions

By: Philip Howard
Format: InDetail
Published: April 2007

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CIMCON offers a suite of software products that, while they nominally have a particular emphasis on ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, actually have broader application for spreadsheet management. The suite includes discovery capabilities (via XLRisk); auditors tools (XLAudit) for spreadsheet comparison, error detection and so forth; and change tracking and control (SOX-XL). There is also a companion product called SOX-XS that provides comparable features to SOX-XL but for Access databases rather than Excel.

While the ‘SOX’ prefix to two of these products is understandable, there is a danger that it limits the potential usage of these offerings in user’s eyes. In practice, the SOX products from CIMCON support best practice that may well be applicable to companies that are not subject to the Sarbanes-Oxley regulations.