AcuMaestro’s business assurance
solution suite is ideally suited to creating automated
SOA monitoring, reporting, control, compliance, and
improvement. The core of the solution suite is the
software product, BASE (for Business Assurance
Solutions Environment). BASE is a core engine for
creating a normalized, consolidated data stream from
disparate data sources, and for executing
user-specified rules and formulas to determine process
performance. The core BASE engine is extensible
through libraries for specific application, and has
been extended to provide "out of the box"
capabilities to support automatic real-time SOA
compliance management. BASE underpins the processes,
frameworks, business models, tools, and governance
structures that enable organizations to define, adapt,
deploy, and execute their unique strategy. It has a
powerful model based formula engine including an open
formula definition interface that allows complex
formula definition and calculation for the correlation
and aggregation of business intelligence (BI). The
combination of "out of the box" features and
the cost efficient customization inherent in the BASE
integration suite provide a unique and powerful tool
that enable many new consulting possibilities, true
section 409 compliance, and the potential to bring
operations efficiency to a new level.
Implementation of the BASE solution
for Sarbanes-Oxley (BASE/SOX) entails:
o
installation and configuration of
BASE/SOX software
o
consulting on process engineering and
improvement to define necessary measurements and
control points
o
verification that the data sources are
in fact reliable
o
integration to source systems
o
definition and testing of the BASE rules
and formulas, and
o
ongoing consulting for the purposes of
improvement.
This
represents a substantial management consulting
opportunity for a professional services firm
partnering with AcuMaestro to bring the BASE/SOX
solution to clients.
The
BASE calculation engine acquires information from
other management systems and/or operational
environments, allowing the BASE system to perform
valuable information collaboration that is organized
both vertically and horizontally. Specific real-time
measurable components are refined into Business
Behavior Indicators (BBI) to provide an accurate
picture of the current state of the business in
sufficient detail to drill down to the individual
customer services. The collection of BBI’s is then
compared in real time against service objectives and
reporting thresholds in order to verify internal
(service and operational quality), external (with 3rd
party vendors), or customer service level commitments
and compliance with Business Performance Objectives.
BASE provides up to date information revealing the
efficiency of your business, the financial
implications of your current performance levels, and
automated support for SOA compliance.
