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Governance, Risk & Compliance

EU AI Act explained: Meaning, purpose, and key provisions Understand the EU AI Act, who it applies to, its risk categories, prohibited practices, transparency requirements, penalties, and the steps businesses should take toward compliance.

Oct 13, 2026

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11 minute read

How does the EU AI Act affect product content and PIM?The EU AI Act introduces specific rules for AI-generated product content. Learn how labeling, human review, image disclosures, and channel distribution affect PIM operations.

Oct 13, 2026

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8 minute read

Protecting Vendor Bank and Tax Data in SAP MDG with UI Data Protection Masking A specialist SAP architect explains how UI Data Protection Masking in SAP MDG hides vendor bank accounts for all unauthorized users and masks tax numbers only when the vendor is a natural person, using a combination of role-based and attribute-based access control.

By Ravi Varma Kammella

Oct 12, 2026

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4 minute read

SAP Access Control 12.0 Mainstream Maintenance Ends in 2027: Extend, Upgrade, or Replace?SAP Access Control 12.0 will continue to receive mainstream maintenance until December 31, 2027, followed by extended maintenance until 2030, prompting organizations to evaluate their governance models and choose between extending the current version, modernizing within the SAP GRC ecosystem, or adopting a platform-independent access-governance model.

Oct 8, 2026

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7 minute read

SAP Connect Finance Keynote Shows Where Autonomous Finance Stands and Where It’s Headed SAP used its Finance keynote at SAP Connect to show how Autonomous Finance is moving from roadmap to production, with early customer results from PwC and ITOCHU alongside new developments in Joule agents, consolidation, payments, and governance.

Oct 7, 2026

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5 minute read

Data Sovereignty Is Measured in Degrees of Control Data sovereignty works as a degree of control across data, operational, technical, and legal layers. The European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework now gives buyers a way to score it.

By SAPinsider Staff

Oct 1, 2026

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2 minute read

Internal Controls Automation: Why Manual Checks Are No Longer Enough Internal controls automation enables organizations to transition from manual, fragmented control processes to continuous, systematic monitoring, significantly enhancing efficiency, exception detection, transparency, and audit readiness.

Sep 30, 2026

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13 minute read

NVIDIA Launches New Security Platform for AI Agents as SAP Builds OpenShell Into Joule Studio NVIDIA's Open Agent Safety Platform places enforceable runtime boundaries around AI agents. SAP is embedding the platform's OpenShell runtime in Joule Studio, and deeper links to enterprise authorization, IAM, and audit controls are still under development.

By SAPinsider Staff

Sep 28, 2026

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3 minute read

Modern architectural pathways and segmented structures representing data sovereignty and enterprise infrastructure boundaries.

Why Data Sovereignty Is Becoming an Enterprise Architecture Question Data sovereignty increasingly describes who controls enterprise data, workloads, and operators, as well as where data sits. Cloud, AI, regional policy, and portability are making it an enterprise architecture question.

By SAPinsider Staff

Sep 25, 2026

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4 minute read

Aerial view of interlocking highways representing multiple attack paths into SAP systems

SAP OVERPASS Update: New Attack Route and Public Exploit Code Raise Patching Stakes Researchers have found a new route to the SAP OVERPASS vulnerability through WebSocket-based RFC, and proof-of-concept exploit code has surfaced in a public SAP toolkit. SAP teams need to know which communication paths still reach vulnerable systems while patches are deployed.

Sep 25, 2026

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3 minute read