CLIENT STORY Better SOX: $4 billion lab equipment maker drives compliance with Protiviti’s Governance Portal Not long ago, a frustrated Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance team decided “enough was enough.” Their publicly traded employer, Agilent Technologies, an international leader in life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets, was definitely compliant with U.S. accounting regulations. But the process for proving their status was cumbersome at best, excruciating at worst. For one thing, the almost 320 control approvals performed by the internal audit team were entirely manual. Data was laboriously gathered from multiple locations. Dozens of assessment spreadsheets with hundreds of tabs were emailed back and forth among 30 executives and 100 other stakeholders. For testing

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