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Strengthen your SAM with eventACTION
This session describes an effort by Time Customer Service, A Time Warner Company, to strengthen various parts of their Software Asset Management program. It describes their overall SAM methodology and how, with Action Software's eventACTION, they improved their ability to track software usage, proactively enforce licensing restrictions, and develop reporting to serve as proof of software license compliance.

A User's Perspective of Sarbanes-Oxley, ITIL and COBIT Compliance
Managing the system software environment is becoming an area of audit concerns, placing a heavier burden on the support group to gather, store and report information about software changes.
With the burden of ITSM standards and legal requirements as outlined in COBIT\ITIL\SOX, the change management process has become even more critical. The need for readily available information related specifically to the operating system environment has grown and the demands have increased while the personnel resources in this area decrease. Security software such as RACF and ACF II provide the secure umbrella to protect the infrastructure, but can't provide the minute protection needed to prevent changes during production windows or provide the detail of who, when, and what changes were made.
This session will provide an outline of the customer's requirements from their Security Control Review Process (SRCP) and describe their solution, from both a software and process perspective, to satisfy the compliance requirements. The session demonstrates how the solution provides their software support team an automated means of gathering, storing, accessing and distributing the data that provides the evidence based information necessary to their comprehensive annual SRCP review.

Managing the complexities of Change and Software Asset Management

This session will demonstrate how the product eventACTION provides the system software group an automated means of gathering, storing, accessing and distributing the information required to more effectively manage the operating system environment while not changing the way people work today.

The presentation will highlight how accountability and audit ability of system software changes are quickly and easily achieved; how software changes can be more actively controlled to meet operating constraints; how software assets can be more easily managed through monitoring and controlling usage in support of licensing restrictions; how eventACTION provides a flexible and dynamic solution to meet the demands of a high-performing 24/7 operating environment; how the product provides additional tools to increase the efficiency of both system programmers and change administrators in their day-to-day jobs; and finally, how little time is required to manage the product itself.

For more information about the presentation contact Action Software

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Sarbanes Oxley, COBIT and ITIL Compliance - eventACTION is the Solution for the z/OS Systems environment

ITIL and “best practices” are not sufficient to conform to the Sarbanes Oxley & COBIT requirements. There are many products on the market that claim they can track changes, that they can control / manage changes or that they can audit the use of products and the changes made to systems. Most change management products are either electronic paper or based on cyclical comparisons.

eventACTION - a comprehensive event tracking product can help you pro-actively manage your z/OS environment with real time capture of any change, reference, or execution to any system level data.

Review our flyer, 'Compliance Issues in a z/OS System Environment' for more information.

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