Book - The Joy of SOX

We Wrote the Book on SOX and SOA!

We are proud to announce the publication ofThe Joy of SOX: Why Sarbanes-Oxley and Service Oriented Architecture May Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You
by Hugh Taylor, VP of Marketing

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), passed in 2002 in response to a series of high-profile corporate scandals, requires that public companies implement internal controls over financial reporting. These controls depend heavily on the interaction between information systems and business processes.  Written by an executive on the tech-biz side of the SOX discussion, this highly readable, engaging book provides a clear road map for integrating SOX compliance into the fabric of everyday IT infrastructure and business practice.  Using a practical case study, The Joy of SOX shows the reader how to leverage and use Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), a set of technologies that enables interoperation of heterogeneous computer systems, to achieve the level of internal controls over IT that SOX mandates. 

Specific Topics Covered Include:

• The “SOX Paradox” – The inherent tension between management, IT, and audit staff over the tendency of compliance to force businesses to lock down systems and stifle strategic agility.
• The potential for the rigors of SOX compliance to serve as a catalyst for tightening control over operations, IT, and financial reporting.
• The ability of Service-Oriented Architecture to solve the SOX Paradox by enabling tight control over the IT side of financial reporting while simultaneously providing operational flexibility - a mix that delivers both strategic agility and compliance.
• An in-depth look at the connections between the organizational and technological sides of the SOX compliance and IT equation.

About the author
Hugh Taylor is Vice President of Marketing at SOA Software, the leading provider of management and security solutions for enterprise service-oriented architecture. He is the co-author, with Eric Pulier, of Understanding Enterprise SOA (Manning, 2005). The author of more than a dozen articles and papers on the subject of web services and service-oriented architecture, Taylor is an authority on business process management, SOA, and compliance issues. Taylor received his B.A. degree, Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College in 1988 and his M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School in 1992. He lives in Los Angeles.  For more information, visit http://www.soa.com or http://www.hughtaylorsite.com.

Ordering Information
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Wiley • April, 2006 • Paperback • 312 pages • ISBN: 0-471-77274-7