May 12, 2021
•1 minute read
SAP GRC
SAP GRC focuses on the governance, risk, and compliance practices, technologies, and processes used to keep SAP environments secure, auditable, and aligned with regulatory requirements. For SAP customers, this includes SAP GRC products as well as related capabilities for access control, process control, risk management, threat detection, identity governance, financial compliance, and privacy governance across SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, cloud, and hybrid landscapes. The topic is relevant to IT, security, audit, finance, compliance, and business process owners who need stronger controls, better visibility, and more confidence in how SAP systems are governed
What is SAP GRC?
SAP GRC is the set of tools and business processes organizations use to manage governance, risk, and compliance across SAP systems. In practical terms, it helps enterprises control user access, monitor segregation of duties, automate compliance workflows, detect risk, support audits, and align business processes with internal and external requirements. SAP GRC can refer to SAP-native solutions such as SAP Access Control and SAP Process Control, as well as broader GRC activities connected to SAP environments. The goal is to reduce risk while making compliance repeatable, visible, and scalable.
SAP GRC focuses on the governance, risk, and compliance practices, technologies, and processes used to keep SAP environments secure, auditable, and aligned with regulatory requirements. For SAP customers, this includes SAP GRC products as well as related capabilities for access control, process control, risk management, threat detection, identity governance, financial compliance, and privacy governance across SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, cloud, and hybrid landscapes. The topic is relevant to IT, security, audit, finance, compliance, and business process owners who need stronger controls, better visibility, and more confidence in how SAP systems are governed
What is SAP GRC?
SAP GRC is the set of tools and business processes organizations use to manage governance, risk, and compliance across SAP systems. In practical terms, it helps enterprises control user access, monitor segregation of duties, automate compliance workflows, detect risk, support audits, and align business processes with internal and external requirements. SAP GRC can refer to SAP-native solutions such as SAP Access Control and SAP Process Control, as well as broader GRC activities connected to SAP environments. The goal is to reduce risk while making compliance repeatable, visible, and scalable.
How do enterprises use SAP GRC?
Access control and segregation of duties
Enterprises use SAP GRC to manage who can access sensitive transactions, data, and processes in SAP systems. Access control and SoD monitoring help prevent conflicts, reduce fraud risk, and support cleaner audit outcomes.
Continuous controls monitoring
SAP GRC supports ongoing monitoring of business and IT controls rather than relying only on periodic manual reviews. This helps compliance teams identify exceptions earlier and standardize control testing across SAP processes.
Audit readiness and evidence management
Organizations use SAP GRC to document controls, track remediation, and provide auditors with clearer evidence. In SAP environments, this is especially valuable for financial controls, user access reviews, and regulated business processes.
Risk management during transformation
SAP GRC becomes especially important during SAP S/4HANA migrations, cloud adoption, and business process redesign. Teams can reassess roles, controls, approval workflows, and compliance requirements as part of transformation planning.
Identity governance across hybrid landscapes
As SAP landscapes expand across cloud, on-premise, and third-party systems, enterprises use GRC and identity governance tools to maintain consistent policies. This supports access reviews, role design, and risk visibility across mixed environments.
Where does SAP GRC emerge in SAPinsider research?
State of the Market GRC in SAP Environments shows that SAP customers are modernizing GRC as regulatory complexity, audit fatigue, and fragmented access governance increase. The research found that 60% of organizations are automating GRC processes and 53% are centralizing control workflows.
The Automating and Integrating GRC Processes report highlights the push to make compliance and audit work more efficient. The report found that 65% of respondents focus on end-to-end automated processes to meet compliance and audit requirements.
Cybersecurity Threats and Challenges to SAP Systems connects SAP GRC priorities to security risk. The report found that 23% of respondents experienced credential compromise, social engineering, malware or ransomware, or another cyberattack impacting their SAP environment in the past year.
Case Study: How Hershey is leveraging GRC to increase control automation with SAP S/4HANALearn how The Hershey Company, one of the largest chocolate manufacturers in the world, partnered with their SAP S/4HANA ERP implementation team to embed a reliable system of internal controls as part of the solution confirmation phase of the implementation.
Attend this session to hear how Hershey:
- Partners with key business process owners to redefine key business processes while maintaining adequate internal controls and ensuring appropriate segregation of duties as part of the greenfield implementation approach
- everages automation technology such as SAP GRC Process Control and SAP GRC Access Control to automate control execution by management and control testing by internal audit to decrease manual compliance efforts
- Will baseline and report on the project management effectiveness at the beginning of the implementation and continue to evaluate and communicate the effectiveness throughout the project
- Will assess organizational readiness before system go-live as well as post go-live until the system becomes stable beyond the hypercare period
Expert’s guide for SAP GRC 12 configuration, Fiori UI, HANA integration, and upgrade FAQsSAP GRC 12.0 has upgraded the look and feel of the GRC suite’s user experience while offering new enhanced integration with SAP HANA. Anyone considering a move from SAP GRC 10.0 to 12.0 will want to know that the upgrade will be successful. How can you best configure this security and compliance suite to fit your organization’s risk management needs?
SAPinsider expert Kurt Hollis of Deloitte will share GRC configuration key points and topics for the SAP Access Control solution’s Access Request Management (ARM), Access Risk Analysis (ARA), and Emergency Access Management (EAM, or Firefighter) modules, as well as providing a brief walkthrough of the configuration.
Attend this session to:
- Understand enablement of GRC Fiori User Interface
- Review the front-end requirements for the SAP Business Client, SAP Enterprise Portal, and now the HTML5 “Fiori”-based user interfaces
- Walk through the architecture of the integration of SAP HANA with GRC to see how it can be designed for your own organization
- Review tips and methods for a successful upgrade from SAP GRC 10.0 to 12.0
May 12, 2021
•1 minute read
2021 GRC Trends Affecting the Intelligent EnterpriseThe move to SAP S/4HANA holds broad implicates beyond technology simplicity, greater speed, and improved process improvement. Governance, Risk, and Compliance teams must fully understand the potential impact this transition has on security, roles, and overall risk to the organization. SAPinsider recently sat down with Dudley Alan Cartwright, CEO of Soterion, to hear how organizations can apply a holistic view to GRC and how they can navigate Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and Identity and Access Management (IAM) as they navigate the current business landscape and move toward the Intelligent Enterprise.
One of the keys according to Cartwright is taking a more holistic approach to GRC and Identity Management while paying careful attention to the role design and translation of technical GRC terms and concepts. In this Market Insight you will learn:
• What you can do to translate complicated technical GRC jargon into business terms that your functional professionals and executives can understand
• Important security considerations when mapping out your move to SAP S/4HANA
• How proper role design serves as the foundation of solid GRC and security practices
• What you need to do to prepare for the security and compliance requirements from using SAP Fiori
Apr 14, 2021
•5 minute read
Keynote | GRC and Security Spotlight SessionAs the single-source of truth about an enterprise's strategy and operations, SAP S/4HANA is the beating heart of today's modern enterprises. The executive suite increasingly relies upon the CFO and Finance team to deliver strategic, predictive insight to chart a winning business strategy. At the same time cybersecurity and data protection have emerged as the top risks for enterprises. Finance and Risk are key in today's experience economy as it touches customers and business partners in many ways that contribute to the overall brand experience. And, as the emerging steward for compliance, security, and risk management, Finance increasingly governs transparency and principled performance*. Join Vishal Verma, Global VP, GRC Solution Management, to discuss the increasing role of GRC and Cybersecurity in today's intelligent enterprise and roadmap from SAP.
Jan 20, 2021
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Taking Control of your GRC Destiny: How to Build and Execute a Realistic SAP GRC Compliance RoadmapLearn how to shift from a GRC plan that’s reactionary, to one that is proactive and preventative. Dive into the capabilities of SAP’s multiple solutions for GRC and learn how they can be tailored for your current scenarios and also prepare for future needs. Understand the process of building a GRC road map the can enable you to stay “one step ahead" of your business needs and auditors while increasing automation and ROI. Attend to:
- Understand the typical journey and evolutionary path a GRC customer goes through to reach continuance compliance utilizing the full and growing suite of SAP solutions for GRC
- Learn how to define your current state of GRC evolution and map out a realistic plan for your destination of compliance
- Learn about the growing catalog of GRC compliance functionality now available including SAP Access Control, SAP IAG, SAP Single Sign On, SAP UI Logging and Masking, etc.
- Gain real-world insight based on 260+ GRC customer implementations, including key tips to enhance ROI and implementation strategies
Jan 20, 2021
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Why Everyone’s Segregation of Duties Reports are WrongEven without the COVID-19 pandemic, all organizations need to be as efficient as possible when managing Segregation of Duties (SoD) conflicts. SoD reports are flawed and drive inefficiencies in business processes. The flaws also cause organizations to cut corners and limit their visibility to SoD conflicts. By recognizing the issues with your SoD reports, you can ensure your SoD controls are structured to better manage your SoD risks in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
Attend this session and learn how to:
- Recognize deficiencies associated with your SoD reports
- Identify the negative impacts on your organization from those deficiencies
Jan 20, 2021
•1 minute read
SAP capabilities for run-time, configurable attributes and rules for data protection and privacyIn this era of cyberattacks and GDPR, data privacy and protection has stepped to the forefront of the enterprise security agenda. This session will explore SAP’s capabilities to support this effort. You will:
- Understand the latest status of run-time authorizations as employed by SAP’s UI Data Protection Masking solution
- See use cases and configuration dos and don’ts related to this next generation access control paradigm
- Discover how to protect data based on configurable attributes and rules
Jan 20, 2021
•1 minute read
Audit and Risk Management: Plug & Play for SAP ERPIt’s a volatile time to be in business. Not only is there more pressure on people and processes caused by constant technological disruption, but we are also now living in a world of ever-increasing risk, legislation, and regulation.
Magnitude Every Angle has long helped companies to understand the root causes of issues and bottlenecks in service, as well as driving dramatic improvements in data quality. EA4GRC, a “plug-and-play” module for Governance, Risk and Compliance, applies Magnitude Every Angle’s unique capability to provide actionable insights to financial processes in order to control risk.
In this session, we will demonstrate how this solution can be used to:
- Provide transparency for key operational processes subject to risk
- Control, analyze, and improve business processes that require audit and risk management
- Ensure continuous process control on key daily activities
Jan 20, 2021
•1 minute read
Case Study: Pfizer’s SAP GRC Manual Control Performance governance, maintenance, and operationsAttend this session to learn how Pfizer, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, manages, operates, and maintains the Manual Control Performance solution within SAP Process Control. Take a deep dive into critical paths, key decisions, process designs, and technical solutions that management should know and consider to successfully operate and maintain Manual Control Performance. Attend this session to:
- Learn how to maintain and manage the MCP operations and change requests
- Discover how to mitigate potential issues and limitations within the change management process and technical solutions •See how to build custom solutions to enhance the MCP job scheduling process and MCP reports
- Learn how to create and customize manual steps within SAP PC to satisfy various control scenarios and update control performers and approvers using transaction code: grfn_ctrl_perf
- Take home a document with popular SAP PC tables used to review and monitor Manual Control Performance
Oct 21, 2020
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Managing SoD Risks in Modern SAP EnvironmentsTired of juggling manual and multiple technologies for GRC? Dealing with siloed reporting and failed audits? Do you know the true cost of compliance? Join this session led by Grant Small and Connor Hammersmith to gain practical insights on how to automate governance and compliance processes in modern SAP environments. Saviynt enables organizations to create a centralized identity hub that provides visibility into your governance processes across SAP and non-SAP applications. Explore how Saviynt can support digital transformation, simplify SoD compliance, and drive ROI for your organization. Learn how to:
- Automate governance and compliance processes
- Standardize risk management processes
- Choose the right implementation partner
- Calculate compliance ROI
Oct 21, 2020
•1 minute read
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