Many regulations, one truth: IT is the glue that compliance efforts hold in common.(Special Report: Regulatory Compliance)

Manufacturing Business Technology, January, 2006 by Parker, Kevin

What do the Sarbanes-Oxley (Sarbox) Act, and its body of financial regulation, have to do with RoHS, a European Union regulation dealing with substances used in electronic products? The answer is as follows. There are basically two kinds of regulation impacting manufacturers today: that dealing with information (Sarbanes-Oxley, the FDA's 21 CFR Part 11, or various privacy acts); and that dealing with the environment, including materials compliance and health and safety rules.

But even these environmental rules are addressed through information management. Any information process used to address regulatory compliance must do both of the following: 1) protect critical information assets; and 2) make information available to appropriate parties. ...

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