Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Client Story February 16, 2023 Protiviti helps global energy conglomerate complete a complex integration of an E&P target Steigende Energiepreise und die daraus resultierende Rentabilität führen im Öl- und Gassektor häufig zu einer Flut von Fusions- und Übernahmeaktivitäten (M&A). Die Deals zielen häufig auf Organisationen ab, die unabhängig und unternehmerisch denken – Unternehmen, die eine beträchtliche, aber oft unterentwickelte Vermögensbasis angesammelt haben Infographic February 28, 2023 Infographic | Consumer Products and Retail Executive Perspectives on Top Risks 2023 Across many retail and consumer goods categories, companies are contending with talent shortages that have increased labor costs, product availability challenges, difficulty sustaining customer loyalty and retention, and pressure to implement sustainability practices. According to results from the latest Protiviti-NC State global top risk survey, these are among the key issues being discussed in… Blog February 15, 2023 Why Data Governance Programs Are Easy to Envision, Difficult to Sustain I am often asked, with all the investments in data management and infrastructure over the last 50 years, why are we still not great with governing data? To put it simply and directly – it’s hard! Data governance programs are easy to envision conceptually, difficult to implement, and without proper care, impossible to sustain. Often data governance investments have a long ‘time to value’ ROI,… Blog May 3, 2021 Understanding Business Responsibilities During an SAP S/4HANA or Central Finance Transformation Journey – Part 2 In Part 1, we introduced the first four of the seven key areas of business responsibilities during an SAP S/4HANA or Central Finance transformation journey. Today, we cover the remaining three: user acceptance testing, reporting and analytics, and security and controls. User Acceptance Testing (UAT) UAT is the final and most critical phase of system testing, and… Blog February 16, 2023 Migrating SAP Workloads to AWS: Which Option to Choose? The phenomenon of cloud computing has slowly ingratiated us for many years now. Many customers have already moved entire workloads to the cloud and many vendors are now offering their products exclusively as a software as a service (SaaS) cloud platform. SAP customers still contemplating moving to the cloud will want to read this introduction to what is required when moving SAP workloads to the… Blog February 21, 2023 Adopting Automation Elevates SAP Control Testing In this two-part series, we explore how organizations can leverage robotic process automation (RPA) and other automation techniques for IT Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) testing within SAP environments. In Part 1, we reviewed the business need for RPA. Today, Part 2 covers advancements and future use-cases for RPA-based solutions. Robotic Process Automation (RPA), when deployed correctly, can… Blog February 22, 2023 California Attorney General to Investigate Mobile Applications News broke ahead of Data Privacy Day in late January 2023 that California Attorney General Rob Bonta is conducting a deep, investigative sweep that focuses on the mobile apps of organizations that fail to comply with consumer opt-outs or do not offer a protection mechanism for consumers who want to exercise the right to prevent the sale of their data. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)… Podcast February 22, 2023 Podcast | Quantum-Inspired Approaches for Advantage Today with Multiverse Computing As NISQ-era quantum computing improves, we’re on the cusp of practical advantage within a couple of years. But some companies want to see impressive performance today. That’s where quantum-inspired solutions can provide up to triple the power, all on classical hardware. Learning quantum-inspired programming could even help coders migrate to real quantum computers in the future. Could these… Blog May 12, 2021 Lessons from a Pandemic: SAP Leaders Detail Financial Tech Trends Digital transformation and the migration of critical systems to the cloud were underway long before COVID-19 forced companies to quickly convert to a remote work footing in early 2020. The global pandemic, however, provided an imperative for companies to accelerate their plans. That shift, or “tech-celeration,” provides important context in which to analyze the answers of respondents from… Blog May 19, 2021 SAP GRC and Security Design Nuances for SAP Utilities As any current or former employee at a utilities company can attest, there are nuances to systems and applications used to run the business. This applies whether it’s a power company, gas company, water company, waste treatment company or any other utility. Utilities companies that run SAP are no exception, as they very likely leverage SAP’s Industry Specific – Utilities (IS-U) product to support… Load More