Open, Robust & Scaleable Solution for Sarbanes Oxley Act Compliance

InfoSTEP announces eLustroHarmony and eLustroCSA: Comprehensive Risk Management and Internal Control Assurances solutions based on Sun ONE platform for Sarbanes Oxley compliance requirements.

InfoSTEP Inc. http://harmony.elustro.com
CONTACT: Bala Ramachandran Tel: 408-480-2895, bala@infostep.com

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Santa Clara, California (PRWEB) August, 2003 -- InfoSTEP, Inc. today announced the availability of eLustroHarmony and eLustroCSA solutions built on Sun Microsystems Java and Sun ONE platforms (Nasdaq: SUNW) to help companies with Sarbanes Oxley Act compliance requirements. These offerings empower CEOs, CFOs, Corporate Controllers and process owners with tools to monitor internal controls and manage business risks within acceptable tolerance levels.

eLustroHarmony and eLustroCSA provide an open framework based approach to implement the stringent compliance requirements imposed by SEC. The framework is built on COSO guidelines and leverages a strong technology backbone provided by the Sun ONE platform, including Sun's Java technology and the Sun ONE Web Server, Application Server and Directory Server products . By utilizing Sun's network identity solutions, based on key industry security standards, and by developing on the Sun ONE and Java platform, InfoSTEPs solution can meet the stringent needs of customers with an open and trusted infrastructure solution from Sun Microsystems.

Using InfoSTEPs solutions, organizations can model their strategic objectives, associated risks, internal controls and monitor the enterprise-wide control programs within a secured portal interface. Specific functionality of the solution includes:

• Program Management
• Risk & Control Catalog Management
• Control Assessments
• Issue Tracking
• Monitoring and Reporting
• Executive Dashboard

Implementing enterprise-wide Internal Control & Assurances programs require integration with disparate business systems in the enterprise", says Sagar Anisingaraju, CEO of InfoSTEP Inc. Organizational view of enterprise risks and monitoring the controls to mitigate the risks requires a highly scalable open technology infrastructure and the Sun ONE platform provided us the required services to implement our enterprise solution".

"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. 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 flagship product suite 'eLustro' is successfully deployed at several enterprises including Cisco Systems, Oki Semiconductors & Sun Microsystems. InfoSTEP's eLustroHarmony and eLustroCSA are Risk Management and Control Assurance frameworks built on top of eLustro suite. These are built as extensible systems leveraging XML and Java technology.

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

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