Software addresses Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

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WebNetTrak Solution can link Sarbanes-Oxley documentation activities with corporate IT management procedures and policies. It has real-time automated reporting capabilities utilizing Java based GUI application as well as common Visio software as drawing engine. Visio equipment stencils have been modeled into WebNetTrak service as smart objects complete with all appropriate data attributes to perform detailed network design, deployment, and support.



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Webnettrak Helps Companies Grappling with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for IT Governance and Accounting Controls



WebNetTrak is the first company to provide a solution that addresses the recent Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that makes compliance mandatory. Company IT departments must have the documentation to help CFO's comply with Sarbanes-Oxley.

Pleasanton, Calif. - September 15, 2003 - WebNetTrak, Corporation, a provider of next-generation of telecommunications and network infrastructure design and tracking solutions, today announced they have developed the WebNetTrak Solution. It can be used to link Sarbanes-Oxley documentation activities with corporate IT management procedures and policies.

Companies need systems overhauls to meet Sarbanes-Oxley's 'material events' requirement.

Most companies that have taken steps to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act have focused their energies on Section 404, a provision that requires businesses to document their financial-reporting controls and procedures.

But most IT managers have yet to tackle a potentially more onerous requirement: Section 409, which calls for companies to deliver timely reports to investors and other stakeholders on any "material events" that could affect the companies' finances or business operations.

That mandate, which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to start enforcing by 2005, could leave businesses with no choice but to make sweeping changes to their IT infrastructures in order to provide automated reporting capabilities that function at close-to-real-time speeds, CIO's and analysts said last week.

"There's a huge data and information infrastructure issue there that has to be tuned to respond to events-and most companies don't have these capabilities in place," said John Hagerty, an analyst at AMR Research Inc. in Boston. From an IT perspective, Section 409 "will cause the most heartburn" of all the Sarbanes-Oxley mandates, he said.

An example of a material event that may fall under the requirements of Section 409 is the loss of a major sales contract to a competitor, Handler said. Potential sales are often taken into account when companies make public revenue forecasts, he noted.

Cost overruns on IT projects and other major capital expenditures could also qualify as material events that need to be reported to interested parties within 48 hours.

"We are excited that we have developed a solution that addresses this potentially huge issue. " said Bruce Graves, CEO & President of WebNetTrak Corporation " Companies need to get their house in order and get their heads out of the sand, especially in their IT departments!"

Many companies will procrastinate about taking steps to meet the Section 409 requirements. An analogy between Sarbanes-Oxley and how businesses reacted to the Y2k problem... they knew about it, then hemmed and hawed, and then reacted to it again with two years to go and scrambled.

WebNetTrak addresses those issues and more. The WebNetTrak solution has real-time automated reporting capabilities utilizing a powerful and user-friendly Java based GUI application as well as the common Visio software product as the drawing engine. Visio equipment stencils have been modeled into the WebNetTrak service as smart objects complete with all the appropriate data attributes to perform detailed network design, deployment, and support.

The centrally hosted repository coupled with the smart objects inherent in the WebNetTrak architecture means that data will always be up to date.

Network Integrators reap additional benefits from our solution as it simplifies the process of designing, implementing and managing multiple network infrastructures.

About WebNetTrak, Corporation
WebNetTrak Corporation provides a next-generation network management solution for the design and tracking of new and existing networks made possible by the convergence of the Internet, traditional enterprise and telecommunications networks. WebNetTrak Corporation's mission is to provide a cost-effective and superior solution (both methodology & technology) for the life-cycle process of designing, deploying and supporting voice and data communication networks such as third-generation (3G) wireless, real-time exchanges, financial service organizations, mCommerce, eHubs, broadband, and Internet-based business environments. WebNetTrak Corporation's network management solution offers enhanced performance and scalability, high-availability and change-tolerance, reduction of total time-to-market through pre-built design templates, deployment directly from business rules & logic, and a web based "universal customer view" of data and voice network through the use of "smart" object drawings that are visible across all services. WebNetTrak Corporation is a privately held company.
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