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Time For Change– Are Changes to SAP Happening Once a Week, Month or Quarter?? When I was a consultant at a Fortune 500 company, they were talking about moving changes into SAP only once a quarter. They were saying that some companies were able to do this. In order to do this, I would think the system has to be very stable. Of course it is not going to be immediate but gradually they want to get there in one year.
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"RAT YOUR BOSS" OR "RATS TO RICHES," THE NEW SEC – By Brian Mahany,
In August of this year of this year I wrote a major article for the Journal of Accountancy on the revamped IRS whistleblower program. See www.mahanylaw.com/news.html. Since that article, the IRS has been swamped with whistleblower claims. According to a recent Treasury Inspector General report, the office received 1,890 claims alleging $65 billion in unreported tax last year.
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FBARS OR PRISON BARS? – By Brian Mahany
The federal amnesty deadline for declaring foreign accounts to the IRS expired October 15th. After the highly publicized legal action against Swiss bank UBS began, the IRS offered an amnesty to Americans with assets in foreign accounts. According to federal money laundering laws and IRS regulations, businesses and individuals holding more than $10,000 in offshore accounts are required to complete an annual Foreign Bank Accounting Report (FBAR). Having offshore bank accounts and foreign hedge funds isn’t illegal but failure to disclose them is.
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UBS REDUX - INTENTIONAL LEAK OR ACCIDENT?– By Brian Mahany
As part of the litigation settlement between Swiss bank UBS and the U.S. Treasury, UBS promised to turn over 4,450 names to the IRS. The process involved turning over the names to Swiss authorities who would then forward them to the IRS. But in a strange move, UBS sent thousands of letters to US account holders warning them of their intention to turn over their names. Is this really newsworthy? Actually, yes.
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Accellion Introduces Information Archiving Solution for Large File Transfers
Integrates Managed File Transfer with E-mail Archiving Systems for Enhanced Business Record Retention 

Palo Alto, CA – October 27, 2009 — Protection and retention of electronic business records is essential in the event of corporate litigation.  While business-critical e-mails and e-mail attachments are often retained with e-mail archival systems, files too large to send as e-mail attachments typically bypass the archiving systems.  The Accellion Archival Satellite extends Accellion file transfer to enable archiving of Accellion file transfers to corporate e-mail Archival Systems to comply with business record retention policies.
“With the majority of corporate e-mail policies restricting file sizes to 10 MB, many business-critical documents are being transferred outside of the e-mail system and are bypassing the e-mail archival system and policies,” said Yorgen Edholm, president and CEO of Accellion.  “The Accellion Archival Satellite fills a market void, making it easier for companies to quickly and securely transfer large files while protecting their intellectual property and ensuring business record retention.”

The Accellion Archival Satellite continuously monitors Accellion file transfers to determine which file transfers meet the criteria for archiving.  All Accellion file transfers subject to corporate archival policy are captured and replicated to an Archival Satellite.  The Accellion Archival Satellite is responsible for delivering a copy of the original e-mail with file attachments to the Archival Mail Server.

Using Accellion, corporations and government agencies are able to secure and protect the transfer of intellectual property and sensitive information subject to industry and government compliance regulations. The Accellion Archival Satellite extends protection and archiving of business records to include Accellion file transfer.

Accellion Managed File Transfer
Accellion Managed File Transfer enables corporations and government agencies to quickly and securely share large digital files (up to 20 GB) without impacting e-mail performance or increasing email storage requirements.  All files transferred via Accellion are tracked and secured and include the option for authentication before download.  

About Accellion
The world's leading corporations and government agencies rely on Accellion managed file transfer to secure their intellectual property and ensure compliance.   Founded in 1999, Accellion, Inc. provides enterprise-class managed file transfer solutions for security and data leak prevention that meet today's business requirements for digital information transfer. Accellion is the pioneer and leading provider of appliance-based file transfer solutions for virtual and cloud environments.  Headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in North America, Asia and Europe, Accellion is a privately held company. For more information please visit www.accellion.com or call (650) 739-0095

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