Jan 20, 2021
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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.
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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Case Study: Inside Stericycle’s successful transformation projectStericycle’s Project Monarch has successfully transformed over 500 business system processes to a harmonized landscape of just over 50 within four core applications. This has helped reduce customer invoicing from days/weeks/months to seconds/minutes/hours; shorten financial closes from over 28 days to less than a week; and drive management of indirect spend from less than 10% to more than 90%. In addition, attendees to this session will also learn how Stericycle was able to:
- Leverage standard processes to integrate business acquisitions within weeks, rather than months
- Automate and integrate systematic controls to replace manual ones
- Digitize processes to eliminate paper-based systems and add improved accuracy and quality
- Embed real-time data and analytics to replace incorrect, incomplete, and stale data
Oct 21, 2020
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How Ingevity automated GRC processes to better manage elevated access risksIngevity Corporation, a large public chemicals manufacturer, was faced with manually managing elevated access and meeting compliance requirements for internal financial auditing controls. The organization needed to ease the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) burden on it SAP security team and overhaul its GRC processes. Attend this session to learn how Ingevity implemented elevated access management in a compliant manner, identified and remediated roles that posed risks, and became better prepared for audits. Topics include:
•How automating elevated access is more secure and compliant than using manual processes
•How proper tooling can simplify your organization’s governance processes
•How cloud-based solutions are meeting the demands of today’s GRC challenges
•Why auditors need a detailed audit trail and how to provide one
Oct 20, 2020
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Case Study: How Jabil is Transforming SAP Governance using Robotic Process AutomationAs part of the maturing the governance processes at Jabil, the company leverages several automation techniques to reduce manual tasks and streamline repetitive activities. The governance team leveraged robotic process automation (RPA) technology and the use of standard web services to automate various activities. This session shares specific examples of how RPA and web services are being used at Jabil to support SAP Access Control governance tasks. Attendees will:
- Identify access control processes that can be automated using RPA and web services
- Gain an understanding of how RPA and web services can be integrated with SAP Access Control •Obtain specific examples and use cases where RPA is being used to automate governance tasks
- Understand how to make a case for operational efficiency and improve risk posture
- See specific examples of how RPA and web services are being used to support Access Control governance tasks
- Identify Access Control processes that can be automated using RPA and web services Gain an understanding of how RPA and web services can be integrated with Access Control Obtain specific examples and use cases where RPA is being used to automate GRC tasks Understand how to make a case for operational efficiency and improve risk posture
Oct 20, 2020
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Eight Questions to Ask Before Upgrading your GRC platformDifferent enterprises have different risk appetites, different compliance requirements, different operational processes, and different investment goals. What is right for one organization may not be right for another. But, whatever the right answer is, the modern enterprise must align its diverse stakeholders in order to get the right solution implemented. Find other insightful resources […]
Jul 13, 2020
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