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SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance is a set of tools intended to help SAP customers streamline the management of risk and implementation of corporate controls. Recently, the vendor has also combined its cybersecruity offerings under the SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance umbrella
The importance of SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance and similar solutions has grown in recent years with the rise of cybersecurity threats, the proliferation of devices and access points, growth of cloud technology, and changing regulations.
SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance Solutions
A wide range of solutions are available for SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance. SAP partners also offer many products that provide similar functionality and are popular with SAP customers.
SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance is a set of tools intended to help SAP customers streamline the management of risk and implementation of corporate controls. Recently, the vendor has also combined its cybersecruity offerings under the SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance umbrella
The importance of SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance and similar solutions has grown in recent years with the rise of cybersecurity threats, the proliferation of devices and access points, growth of cloud technology, and changing regulations.
SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance Solutions
A wide range of solutions are available for SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance. SAP partners also offer many products that provide similar functionality and are popular with SAP customers.
- Enterprise Risk and Compliance include products that help companies manage both internal and external organizational risk. Solutions for risk and compliance include Risk Management, Process Control, Financial Compliance Management, and Business Integrity Screening.
- International Trade Management is designed to help companies dive deep into their potential trade partners to explore risk possibilities, as well as helping manage customs processes. Products for International Trade Management include Watch List Screening and Global Trade Services.
- Cybersecurity, Data Protection, and Privacy is an area that is new to SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance and has become vital for enterprises with increasing attacks and new regulations around data protection. Solutions in this space include Enterprise Threat Detection, Privacy Governance, and Data Custodian.
- Identity and Access Governance is a set of tools that once was primarily based around access controls but has grown to include identity management. This is important as companies have more system touchpoints. Access needs to be consistent across applications and devices to avoid risk. Products in this area include Access Control, Cloud Identity Access Governance, Identity Management, and Single Sign-On.
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Case Study: Driving Governance at BridgestoneMay 10, 2023 — Bridgestone Australia faced challenges in managing financial risk in their SAP system with a growing team. After investigating several options, they discovered Soterion's Governance Risk Compliance solution which provided a clear picture of their financial risk in the business, enabling the team to present the stats to the risk committee and executive team providing peace of mind to all. By customizing the solution, Bridgestone ensured no conflicts in the same role, reviewed the rule set, and used segregation of duties (SOD) to define mitigating controls, among other things.
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How Grupo Modelo Brews Up Process Change and Manages RiskApr 1, 2013 — SAP S/4HANA offers enterprises tremendous potential to go beyond performance and simplicity and deliver significant business value as part of an enterprise-wide digital transformation, but this approach must be understood, considered and incorporated into
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With Colgate-Palmolive increasingly sharing IT project resources around the world, they set out to improve the way they plan, monitor, and measure global IT resources and turned to an SAP application that enables companies to inventory and track resources, skills, and budgets. The result: improved project planning, management, and reporting as well as reduced IT support costs.
Even with its substantial environmental footprint, The Coca-Cola Company is leading the charge around creating more sustainable business processes. What lessons can the rest of us glean from this experience? Jeff Seabright, Coca-Cola’s VP of Environment and Water Resources, answers this question with seven pieces of advice.
When a South African retail chain, Pick n Pay, felt hindered by insufficient legacy systems, it decided to roll out a full ERP system. This profile highlights the company’s impressive IT modernization project — from building a solution around SAP for Retail to improving performance to learning important project management lessons.
Now managing 40 branded hotels, Stonebridge Companies was fortunate to experience growth — but it also faced challenges in managing that growth. Nasim Mansurov, Vice President of IT at Stonebridge, discusses the company’s search for an ERP system and the back-end process improvements it has seen post-implementation.
With more than 180,000 employees and even more data, Accenture faced a challenge: it needed to securely support its employees with accurate, real-time information. Uncover how the company’s ERP Delivery team met this challenge by building a suite of self-service web applications — and what they learned along the way.
ConAgra Foods made the decision to start consolidating its technology years ago — and today its R&D, financial, order management, IT services, data center, and supply chain management operations all run in the same SAP system landscape. So what benefits is ConAgra Foods reaping by moving to a “single version of the truth?” Find out in this deep-dive case study.
Upgrading to SAP ERP 6.0 was a non-event for Bristol-Myers Squibb, chiefly because of the help it received from SAP Enterprise Support. With insights from Michael DiNovi, the biopharmaceutical company’s Director of Application Services, this profile highlights the biggest benefits the company gained from its support agreement, including better risk management, streamlined IT processes, and greater spend visibility.
For years, electrical products distributor Summit Electric Supply watched its transaction volumes rise and experienced unhindered growth; but in 2004, the company’s aging legacy system began to show signs of stress. This customer profile relates Summit’s journey of evaluating and implementing an ERP system — and the ensuing benefits and the big lesson learned after going live with SAP ERP.
After eight years of using its custom-built spend performance management reporting system, the giant consumer products company Colgate-Palmolive decided to replace it. Uncover not only why the business made the change, but how it did so by implementing SAP BusinessObjects Spend Performance Management to reap impressive benefits — including enhanced reporting, empowered end users, and reduced dependency on IT.
As a military aircraft provider, Lockheed Martin works with suppliers ranging from large technology firms to small, niche companies with limited IT infrastructure. In this SAP customer profile, Lockheed offers insights and tips on successful supplier collaboration, including a look at its decision to implement a portal-based environment in order to make access to its new SAP ERP system as streamlined for suppliers as possible.
Burton Snowboards is not just a snowboard company — it has also expanded into skateboard and surfboard products and, as a result, watched its global network of offices, retailers, and manufacturers grow. But with this expansion, Burton realized that it needed to improve its systems for inventory, supply chain, purchasing, and customer service. Uncover Burton’s inspiring story of preparing for an upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0 — and building a strong and “simple, standard, supportable” foundation.
You may know it for its dazzling circus performances, but Cirque du Soleil, at its core, is a business—and it has relied on SAP solutions for the past decade to manage its rapid growth. From accommodating the financial complexities of a global business to keeping up with an increased demand for costumes, SAP solutions like SAP ERP Financials have helped Cirque du Soleil optimize and review business processes while collecting valuable business data.
You may know it for its dazzling circus performances, but Cirque du Soleil, at its core, is a business—and it has relied on SAP solutions for the past decade to manage its rapid growth. From accommodating the financial complexities of a global business to keeping up with an increased demand for costumes, SAP solutions like SAP ERP Financials have helped Cirque du Soleil optimize and review business processes while collecting valuable business data.
To produce its cutting-edge semiconductors and microprocessors, high-tech giant Intel needs the very latest manufacturing equipment — and those tools don’t come cheap. In this article, read how Intel used SAP technology to pay suppliers sooner and dramatically improve its discount capture rate for capital purchases from ~50% to over 95%, exceeding the corporate goal, and resulting in millions of dollars in cost savings each year.
Nu Skin, a developer and distributor of health and beauty products, has employees in 28 different countries around the world. Previously, no centralized HR system existed to collect employee data or provide standardized HR reporting. Now, Nu Skin utilizes SAP ERP Human Capital Management -- and its journey to go-live is one that is truly unique.
Kraft Foods was in the midst of an enterprise-wide SAP implementation and the business realized that the best way to expand the benefits of the company’s SAP rollout was to deploy user-friendly BI applications. See how the business created a four-point plan that has served as their secret recipe for success.
LEGO building blocks have become so popular that the company decided to expand its product line to capitalize on increased growth. To make sure its legacy product development system did not hold them back, LEGO has embarked on an implementation of SAP Product Lifecycle Management, with the transition to the application broken up into four distinct phases.
To ensure employees are properly trained, businesses must provide education through materials, in-person instruction, or online training, as well as make sure employees are up to date on certifications. For General Mills — a business that employs 39,000 people worldwide — this is a tall order. To standardize employee training in the supply chain area, the company implemented SAP Enterprise Learning and RegLearn from hyperCision.
When Grupo Modelo took the step to become a more process-oriented organization, a key objective was to make sure the business processes and rules were consistent company-wide. Standardizing organizational processes would give the brewer more insight into operations, but would also create challenges specifically related to risk management.
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GRC State of the Market 2023 – Benchmark Research ReportFeb 28, 2023 — Governance, Risk, and Compliance teams and organizations face a wide range of challenges and obstacles in 2023. These include a constantly shifting landscape of regulations, emerging technologies, and an ever-growing list of cybersecurity threats. Contending with these challenges is a top priority for organizations of all sizes.
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Understanding and Deploying Continuous Control Monitoring with PathlockMar 14, 2025 — SAPinsider Vegas 2025 will gather industry leaders to explore how Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) can transform financial oversight, enhance compliance, and address operational inefficiencies through automation in SAP environments.
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Gain the Insight You Need to Guard Business Integrity and Avoid Suspicious Transactions with High-Risk Third PartiesDec 10, 2023 — Click Here to View the Session Deck. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore SAP Business Integrity Screening and find out how business partners and large volumes of transactional data may be screened to detect, prevent, and discourage fraudulent practices, as well as decrease third-party risk. You will: Learn how to conduct anomaly detection and compliance […]
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Excelitas’ SOD Financial Analytics: Bridging the Gap between Audit Findings and RemediationMar 21, 2024 — Excelitas delves into their strategy for mitigating Segregation of Duties (SOD) access issues within their SAP landscape. In a world where compliance and access integrity are paramount, Excelitas has strategically harnessed the power of SOD Quantification analysis as a pivotal step towards mitigating recent audit findings. Discover how SOD Quantification analysis served as an intermediary solution, bridging the gap between identification of SOD access concerns and their planned remediation. Gain insights into the methodologies harnessed to perform comprehensive SOD Quantification analysis across a landscape encompassing multiple production instances, and learn the approach taken for engaging key stakeholders and members of the business to review exceptions and report findings to External Audit, which ultimately alleviated concerns surrounding the material impact of access management deficiencies.
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Maximising the Value of your GRC Investment – The Importance of Defining a GRC RoadmapJun 19, 2023 — Enhance the value of your access control (GRC) solution by involving both IT and business users, ensuring a comprehensive roadmap that drives optimal returns on investment and reduces fraud risk. This session emphasizes the importance of creating a structured roadmap document to guide implementation tasks, ownership, and timelines, fostering awareness and accountability throughout the organization.
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Breaking the GRC Silo: Unified Risk Management in SAP LandscapesOct 13, 2025 — Pathlock advocates for a unified approach to Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) that integrates SAP with non-SAP systems, enhancing risk management and compliance efficiency across a broader application landscape as traditional SAP Access Control struggles to meet the demands of modern enterprises.
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Onapsis Webinar Series – Securing the Intelligent Enterprise from Cyberattacks – 3 live session dates!Mar 1, 2022 — Join Onapsis and SAP as we highlight how to address security and compliance issues so you can protect your mission-critical applications. In this interactive roundtable session, we will discuss the latest threat landscape targeting SAP applications, the importance of keeping up with patches and the need to continuously assess and monitor SAP applications to quickly detect and […]
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The Silent Killers of SAP Security: How to Shut Down Dormant and Unmitigated Access RisksDec 2, 2025 — SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) has evolved from a periodic compliance task to a risk-based approach, exemplified by ToggleNow's ReviewNow solution, which automates around 99% of User Access Reviews using real-time SAP data, enabling deeper insights into access governance.
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