December 16, 2005 7:37 AM PST

IBM upgrades Tivoli Access Manager

IBM on Friday unveiled its Tivoli Access Manager version 6.0, which features updated auditing capabilities. The product automatically monitors and reports back to IT administrators which employees, partners and customers are accessing company applications and whether they are entitled to gain access to that specific application.

The Tivoli upgrade also gathers the data in a centralized location and is designed to automatically generate compliance reports. The companies submit these reports to federal regulators as part of mandated requirements, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

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It is safe to say that nearly everything about managing customer specific requirements is a hassle. If you're an auditor, how do you know what customer specific requirements exist so that you can audit against them? If you're the customer, how do you distribute them efficiently? If you're a supplier, how do you get them? How do you know if you have the latest version?

Customerspecifics.com was founded as a way of improving the management of customer specific requirements for registrars and quality personnel. The idea started when a member was surprised to find that his revision of a customer specific requirement had become obsolete just days before his audit, resulting in a finding.

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This person wasn't notified of the release of a new revision. If suppliers are required to notify their customers of changes to processes, shouldn't customers return the favor and notify their suppliers of changes to requirements? If something is important enough to be a requirement for a supplier, it's just good business practice to make sure that your suppliers are aware of these requirements.

These are the issues that customerspecifics.com is attempting to solve. We thank each of our users for your valuable document submissions and welcome any and all feedback. We look forward to hearing from you!

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