Automate IT Controls for Compliance
ChangeGear enables companies to meet the key provisions of today’s tough regulations that require change control, security, and configuration management initiatives. ChangeGear is a web-based, integrated platform for automating IT controls that is easy to use and can be deployed quickly into your environment.
ChangeGear provides Change Management to make certain that every change introduced into the IT infrastructure follows a regulated process and Configuration Management Database (CMDB) for discovering, managing, and monitoring all of your IT critical assets. ChangeGear tightly integrates people, process, and technology to simplify regulatory compliance.
Ensure Change Control - ChangeGear enables IT organizations to track, manage, and control all aspects of the change lifecycle, from approving change requests and notifying stakeholders to analyzing the risk and impact of change to the IT infrastructure.
Automate Workflow and IT Processes - ChangeGear’s customizable workflow, approval, and notification system automates communication by enforcing your pre-designed approval structure and ensuring that the right team members are notified at each stage in the workflow.
Improve Risk Management and Impact Analysis - ChangeGear delivers unparalleled visibility into the IT infrastructure by providing configuration information and visual mappings of the network assets, their dependencies and relationships. The ability to perform in-depth impact analysis and risk assessments is critical for demonstrating compliance.
Utilize Flexible Reporting - ChangeGear provides a number of pre-defined audit reports out of the box - reducing the amount of time it takes to complete reports for auditors. Customized reports can also be created using Crystal Reports or the built-on ad-hoc reporting tool.
Integrated Platform for Automating IT Controls
ChangeGear is an integrated platform for automating change management and configuration management that allows IT organizations to simplify and automate IT change control. Designed with the ITIL best practices framework, ChangeGear ensures that any change introduced into the IT infrastructure follows a regulated process; this prevents unauthorized change, eliminates the potential for system downtime, and ensures regulatory compliance.
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Why ChangeGear:
- Easy to Use – intuitive Web 2.0 interface
- Simple to Deploy – deploy in days, not months
- Cost Effective – low total cost of ownership when compared with other enterprise ITSM solutions
- Seamless Integration – easily integrate with other systems or processes
- Flexibility – quickly adapt processes to meet your business needs without coding
- ITIL Alignment – utilize ITIL-based processes out of the box for fast ROI
Key Features:
- Advanced workflow engine
- Business policy automation
- Automated approvals & notifications
- Mobile access to workflow approvals & actions
- Resource management for IT assets
- Comprehensive historical audit-trail & reporting
- Announcement calendar
- Agentless auto-discovery of physical & virtual network
- Collection and tracking of configuration details
- Business service mapping & visualization
- Scanning and monitoring for configuration changes
- Module editors for easy customization
Cost & Complexity of Regulatory Compliance
The time and effort put into creating auditable reports is also a cost when mentioning Regulatory Compliance. Sometimes pulling together compliance information can take multiple days or weeks. With ChangeGear, you can complete your compliance reporting with ease and ensure that your organization is meeting the requirements necessary to satisfy auditors. Our clients tell us that past compliance reports would take them days to complete and now the reports can be completed in only a few hours.
Avoid Compliance Penalties
All organizations subject to compliance regulations must understand the consequences of not having an efficient compliance plan such as ChangeGear. In addition to the monetary costs of not complying with federal regulations, non-compliance can result in criminal charges, negative publicity, and a lack of investor confidence. Here are just a few examples of how much non-compliance penalties can cost your organization:
- Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) non-compliance penalties range from the loss of exchange listing, loss of D&O insurance, to multimillion dollar fines and imprisonment. The average fine of having no or a poor compliance program is $2.2 million.
- Companies who do not comply with the PCI Data Security Standard will face fines range from $50,000-$500,000 per incident of non-compliance.
- HIPPA fines start at $100 per violation and can go up to $250K and/or imprisonment up to 10 years.
Productivity losses and business losses are the two primary factors that are included when calculating downtime costs for an organization. Productivity losses affect individual or group productivity, while business losses affect transactions or cause customer losses. Calculating these two costs will give you your downtime loss per hour.
