The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires companies to deliver better corporate governance and shore up investor confidence through an enhanced system of internal controls on financial and operational processes. This system of internal controls makes corporate financials and operations more transparent for Boards, senior management, and investors.

The impact of this Act is significant for public companies all over the world. Through our full suite of Business Intelligence, Enterprise Planning and Scorecarding products, Cognos can help companies to achieve compliance by providing transparency into:

• Financial results
• The processes that produce these results 
• The operational data-the how and why-that drives the results

Sarbanes-Oxley leads companies to examine their business more closely than ever before by coordinating strategic and operational plans, monitoring performance against strategy, understanding the causes behind performance, and making the right decisions based on information. These are the interconnected capabilities of corporate performance management (CPM). Cognos is an acknowledged leader in supporting them.