and audit professionals want to see an audit trail of changes to such spreadsheets that shows who accessed them, what was modified, and when. The 2007 Microsoft Office System Products This section describes the products within the 2007 Microsoft Office system that are most relevant to compliance. Compliance solutions on the 2007 release deliver significant return on investment by using the ease-of-use and users’ familiarity with the most widely deployed desktop productivity environment. Although the 2007 release is an application suite, it is also a full-featured development platform ready to be exploited by developers. With this release you can build collaboration, workflow, knowledge management, and business process automation solutions with fewer lines of code than on other platforms. And you deliver a solution with which users are immediately comfortable and productive. In particular, the 2007 release lends itself to being a platform for powerful compliance solutions thanks to its advanced audit trail, encryption, information rights management, records and document management, and more. Description of the Products Relevant to Compliance The following describes the products in the 2007 release that are relevant to regulatory compliance. Feature-to-Compliance Mapping and Product Description Confidentiality Availability Auditing Feature Procedural Logging Integrity Microsoft Office Office SharePoint Server Web 2007 content enables SharePoint® development of intelligent portals that management X X Server 2007 seamlessly connects teams, and (WCM) knowledge. Such portals can help people take advantage of relevant information search X across business processes and help them work more efficiently. An important Document and feature is the business data catalog, which indexes data from external records X X X X X systems and databases, such as CRM management systems, so that it can be searched by the portal search feature. Auditing and X X X X logging
and audit professionals want to see an audit trail of changes to such spreadsheets that shows who accessed them, what was modified, and when. The 2007 Microsoft Office System Products This section describes the products within the 2007 Microsoft Office system that are most relevant to compliance. Compliance solutions on the 2007 release deliver significant return on investment by using the ease-of-use and users’ familiarity with the most widely deployed desktop productivity environment. Although the 2007 release is an application suite, it is also a full-featured development platform ready to be exploited by developers. With this release you can build collaboration, workflow, knowledge management, and business process automation solutions with fewer lines of code than on other platforms. And you deliver a solution with which users are immediately comfortable and productive. In particular, the 2007 release lends itself to being a platform for powerful compliance solutions thanks to its advanced audit trail, encryption, information rights management, records and document management, and more. Description of the Products Relevant to Compliance The following describes the products in the 2007 release that are relevant to regulatory compliance. Feature-to-Compliance Mapping Product Description Feature Confidentiality Integrity Availability Procedural Auditing and Logging Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Office SharePoint Server 2007 enables development of intelligent portals that seamlessly connects teams, and knowledge. Such portals can help people take advantage of relevant information across business processes and help them work more efficiently. An important feature is the business data catalog, which indexes data from external systems and databases, such as CRM systems, so that it can be searched by the portal search feature. Web content management (WCM) X X search X Document and records management X X X X X Auditing and logging X X X X
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