John Hagerty Quotations

We're going from an intensely human effort to a much more automated process for sustaining operations. There will be a lot more technology investment.

Spending on Sarbanes-Oxley is only the visible tip of the compliance iceberg. Any expectation that compliance spending might moderate is just wishful thinking as companies in all industries grapple with increased regulatory concerns and stricter governance and risk policies within their own firms.

State police put their emotions aside every single day.

Open source comes in many flavors-free software, purchased support contracts, introductory functionality with purchased extensions, training, and such-and buyers are increasingly interested in exploring the options available to them, especially if they see opportunities for cost avoidance and/or reduction. It was just a matter of time before Oracle jumped into the fray.

It is getting to be a very competitive industry. If the enterprise and platform providers continue to juice up their offerings, they will cause some angst for the best-of-breed vendors.

While a report may say one thing, you've got to have the proofs, the evidence, the contracts, the paperwork, the expenditures -- a paper trail. If it doesn't come up to that, it doesn't matter what a recommendation or referral says. We have a far different standard than an audit in order to move a case to a court for trial.

We're asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear our appeal and argument.

We're looking right at this point at any and all less-than-lethal instruments and devices that would provide public safety for citizens and police officers.

We are looking at significant charges. There is always the possibility of additional arrests and additional charges.

And they're just getting started, North American Corporate SOX Costs.

Different vendors bring different strengths to SOX compliance.

The transaction-capture piece is important, but what companies really want to get to is this information system that gives them a good barometer of where their business is at any point in time.

While there may have been some excessive expenditures, the bottom line was it does not violate criminal statutes because it was not prohibited by the contracts.

These decreases are not easily explainable, because customer inquiries are veering more into these areas. The biggest impediments companies report in deploying PM are access to enterprise-wide data and data from customers and suppliers outside of the firm.

This administration is assessing all of the cases and some of those cases may ultimately be reopened.

I'm not in any position to comment on any aspect of an ongoing investigation.

It truly allows you to analyze information in whatever (tool) makes the most sense to you. You're no longer hampered by going from product to product.

That's a situation where, as you start seeing the source of where information is coming from, it may be a flag to start investigating further. If you see some anomalies, people will drill into the support data to find out why.

He's literally the criminal law expert, the constitution law expert, he's the expert on search and seizure.

A company's BI platform is the cake and the dashboard is the icing on the cake. What BI does is the investigation beyond the original presentation, and the BI community recognizes that they are the information foundation for dashboards.

A company will spend $1 million for every $1 billion generated in revenue to comply with various laws and partners.

You may have misappropriation of government dollars or theft by deception or something of that nature. But the way the contracts were, the way the monies were provided to the day cares, it didn't place limitations on the dollars per se. Therefore, we can't charge a crime.

They're saying that maybe you should have someone independent test the system of record.

All the names that everybody is focusing (on) that have never been officially confirmed, these people are not charged. They have not committed a crime in this state. They are fact witnesses.