On the SOX side, you’re really documenting and testing the effectiveness of processes. In a finance setting, the ral work is in eliminating manual reconciliations etc. There are tools out there that will allow you to do that but at present they’re very much on premise style offerings. For the cmpanies at which they’re aimed, that makes perfect sense. At the moment.

In SOX there’s no concept of encapsulated process+data but there’s no reason why SOX should not be used as a proxy for understanding the place of MDM in hybrid environments. E.g. where you’re taking data feeds from online trading systems into say GL.