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    February 11, 2022
    Transcript | Understanding the ESG ratings, rankings and metrics landscape
    Welcome to the inaugural edition of Protiviti’s Board Perspectives podcast series, in which we delve into numerous challenges and areas of interest for boards of directors. In this episode, our focus is on environmental, social and governance (ESG) – specifically, how organizations are judged! One of the most challenging aspects of ESG for board members is understanding what’s become a…
  • Client Story
    December 19, 2022
    Global financial services technology company divests its product suite to improve efficiency and drive business growth
    Challenge: GBST engaged Protiviti to support the divestiture of part of its product suite. The engagement required the segregation and separation of shared products and infrastructure, including separation and migration of on-premises and AWS cloud-based infrastructure and applications. Solution: Over the discovery phase, Protiviti’s engineers worked with the GBST engineering team to identify…
  • Blog
    February 9, 2022
    Making a Good Thing Better: Migrate SAP BusinessObjects Platform to the Cloud
    SAP Business Objects, often referred to within the SAP ecosystem as BOBJ, is one of the most evolved and reliable analytics and reporting engines running today. With over 60,000 BOBJ installations, the solution can be found in companies of all sizes in every industry around the world. Founded in 1990 and acquired by SAP in 2007, Business Objects is still primarily located in on-premise servers…
  • Blog
    November 15, 2022
    Flash Report – Biden Doubles Down at COP27
    Last Friday at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (more commonly referred to as COP27), in Egypt, United States President Joe Biden asserted that global warming posed an existential threat to the planet and promised his country would meet its targets for fighting it. In his speech, he said, “The climate crisis is about human security,…
  • Blog
    November 16, 2022
    The Age of Sustainability: As New European Disclosure Requirements Take Shape, Here’s How Businesses Should Stay Ready
    UPDATE: The European Council approved the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) on November 28, 2022. Read the Protiviti Flash Report. Background The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is to become the backbone of sustainability reporting within the European Union (EU). Its goal is to remedy problems with insufficient sustainability information provided by…
  • Blog
    November 28, 2022
    HR, Health Thyself: A Comprehensive and Collaborative HR “Physical”
    When it comes to conducting self-evaluations, HR functions are uniquely disadvantaged. Most HR teams are time-pressed and resource-challenged. Precious few can afford to reassign HR professionals muscling through 60-hour work weeks to diagnose the function’s overall health. And many CHROs understandably bristle when the board or their CEO charges another organizational function — internal audit…
  • Blog
    November 30, 2022
    15 Questions Boards Should Ask Their CFOs
    The latest Global Finance Trends Survey from Protiviti reveals a number of priorities that CFOs and finance leaders are focusing on, from security and privacy to talent management, to ESG and even the supply chain. As these also represent key areas of interest for boards of directors, board members should be having open and frequent dialogue with their CFOs to understand the strategy behind these…
  • Blog
    December 1, 2022
    Flash Report — Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) Approved by European Council; More Than 50,000 Organizations Affected
    On 28 November, the European Union (EU) Council gave its final approval to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which will require new, standardized and detailed sustainability reporting by companies. The CSRD represents a significant expansion from the earlier Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD), which it replaces, and exceeds all previous sustainability reporting…
  • Blog
    December 7, 2022
    Uncertainty Allowances: How CFOs Can Prepare for the Unexpected
    The interconnected disruptions roiling markets and industries today confront boards, CEOs and CFOs with more possible futures than they have ever had to consider. CFOs contending with uncertainties that resemble sci-fi plotlines (war, climate change, natural disasters, nuclear saber-rattling, beached container ships) are trending toward the approach that makes the most sense: Allow for the…
  • Blog
    January 19, 2022
    Get “Fancy” With Unlimited SAP GRC Reporting
    Integration of SAP SAC and other third-party reporting capabilities Based on our experience gained during many SAP governance, risk and compliance (GRC) implementations over recent years, we know that clients are always looking for more flexibility and visualizations to meet their internal reporting requirements. While SAP GRC provides comprehensive reports, these are table-based with limited…
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