Concern over regulations took center stage in many businesses with the introduction of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). This act requires corporations to make significant changes to their business processes, often at great cost. While SOX is now under control to some degree, it has brought in its wake a need to create continuous systems for monitoring compliance, as well as a new urgency to deal with regulations in a unified way in order to cut costs and to provide room for process improvement and efficiency.