Results for “Quantum Computing” Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blog April 26, 2018 Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs: Great “Tech-spectations” With a growing number of companies investing in cloud adoption, digitalization and data-intensive projects, Protiviti’s 2018 Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey makes it clear that internal audit has arrived at a point where it needs to evolve its analytics and technological proficiency among all individuals within the function, as opposed to relying on a single technology “specialist… Blog January 23, 2024 What You Read Most: Top Five SAP Insights from 2023 Over the past year, our leading experts came together to address some of the hot topics in the SAP space. Here are Protiviti’s most popular SAP insights from 2023 as we kick off the new year. We anticipate these topics will remain important for your success in 2024. #1. Lessons Learned: Shell Conversion to SAP BW Bridge for SAP Datasphere By: Jacintha Anandaraj In the modern digital era,… Blog December 5, 2017 Digitalization Expands Audit Scope Into New Territory Organizations across industries are racing to migrate analog approaches to customers, products, services and operating models to an always-on, real-time and information-rich digital business model. Using technology and digital advances, such as analytics, social media and smart embedded devices, these organizations are radically improving the performance and reach of their enterprises. This has… Blog April 22, 2020 Remote Workforce Challenges – Managing Employee Productivity Protiviti recently introduced the U.N.I.T.E. checklist to share leading practices that help manage remote teams in today’s rapidly shifting work environment. With most of the world now several weeks (or more) into remote working arrangements, we are expanding on our original checklist to explore one specific area of concern observed with our clients and teams: effective, actionable and empathetic… Blog April 28, 2020 The Virtual Desktop Makes a Comeback The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly changed the way we work, socialize, shop and communicate worldwide. Companies have quickly transitioned from brick-and-mortar offices to collaborative, remote workspaces. And as a result, the immediate focus for tech teams has been threefold: do we have the right collaboration tools for voice and video, are we prepared with security for remote end points and what… Blog March 20, 2018 Even After Patching, Meltdown & Spectre Continue to be a Big Deal First, a recap of the vulnerability For the first time, performance-enhancing features of most modern processors (known as out-of-order superscalar execution, speculative prediction, and HW caching) were discovered to contain (as a unit) a flaw that allows unauthorized disclosure of information. The fact that this flaw is at the processor level differentiates it from other potential… Blog February 23, 2023 The Future of Retail: Technology, Immersive Customer Experience and Building Resilience Spotlighted at Major Industry Event Retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies have been under extraordinary pressure in recent years to rethink and rebuild nearly every aspect of what they do — from how they get products on store shelves or directly into consumers’ hands to how they staff their operations reliably and cost-effectively, and to how, when and where they engage with their customers. Modernizing, digitizing… Blog October 3, 2017 Transitioning Risk Management to the Digital Age The risk management methodologies in play for most companies today were developed before the turn of the century. In effect, risk management is often an analog approach being applied in what is now a digital world. More importantly, if enterprise risk management (ERM) is a standalone process, it is suboptimal. More needs to be done to elevate risk management to help organizations face the dynamic… Blog December 14, 2022 For $62.59, the 8 Character Password is Still Dead Five years ago, we wrote a post called "The 8 Character Password is Dead,” which was an in-depth look at password cracking in 2017 and how eight-character passwords do not adequately protect organizations. In that analysis, we broke down the math and how quickly hardware purchased for under $5,000 could make an eight-character length irrelevant. Unfortunately, in just five years’ time, the… Blog July 26, 2022 How to Build Effective FinOps Capabilities in Cloud Financial operations (FinOps) professionals around the world are generally unflappable, and they need to be. Moving finances to cloud, essentially transferring the spend from CapEx to OpEx, is proving to be a struggle. Organizations are seeing mixed success as they attempt to adopt new FinOps methodologies and are finding it difficult to control spend as development teams and engineers are… Load More