Steve Jones - Editor (6/1/2009)
This law definitely helps DBAS, or anyone that wants to better manage and control their environment, without such a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants attitude that used to predominate.
That is the biggest benefit that I saw as part of IT. We managed most of our systems this way before SOX and it bit us a number of times. The number of late nights working to fix our own errors and shortcomings were reduced after we ensured that our backups actually worked. Our reporting also became much easier to manage knowing that the data was cleaner and more transparent. Audit trails = Good!