Federal Home Loan Bank Atlanta Selects OpenPages SOX Express for Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

November 30, 2004

Waltham, Mass. - November 30, 2004 - OpenPages, a leading provider of enterprise governance, risk and compliance management (GRCM) solutions, today announced that Federal Home Loan Bank Atlanta (FHLBank Atlanta) has selected OpenPages Sarbanes-Oxley Express (SOX Express) for its Section 302 and 404 compliance initiatives.

FHLBank Atlanta is a $129 billion financial services organization that provides low-cost financing, community development grants, and other banking services to nearly 1,200 financial institutions in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. FHLBank Atlanta is one of 12 district banks in the Federal Home Loan Bank System, which since 1990 has contributed more than $1.9 billion to affordable housing development in the United States.

FHLBank Atlanta will deploy SOX Express to streamline its internal control documentation process. It will enable the collection of information regarding ongoing business controls deployment and monitoring, resulting in a reduction of compliance costs. By combining a strong document repository with powerful compliance automation capabilities, SOX Express will facilitate both project management and compliance, using web-based tools to get users up to speed quickly.

OpenPages’ SOX Express is an enterprise compliance management solution that reduces the time and resource costs associated with ongoing compliance for Sections 302 and 404. SOX Express is a focused enterprise application that combines powerful document and business process management with flexible reporting capabilities in an extremely easy-to-use environment that enables CEOs, CFOs and financial management officers to monitor adherence to internal controls. SOX Express helps corporations automate significant aspects of their internal controls framework to significantly reduce the overall cost of compliance. Its dashboards can be used by project managers, documentation team members, internal auditors and external auditors to plan, document and test the internal controls of the company, and eventually to attest to the financial statements.

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