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 Blog April 16, 2018 Part 4: Change Management: What’s Trending? A Report from GRC 2018 and Financials 2018 The 2018 GRC and Finance SAP Insider Conferences took place in mid-February in Las Vegas. Our SAP teams spent time attending conference sessions, and their observations on what’s trending across the industry are compiled here in a five-part series. In this part we take a closer look at Change Management. During the conference, we had the opportunity to deliver a session around S/4HANA® Change… Blog April 25, 2018 Part 5: GRC AC/PC 12: What’s Trending? A Report from GRC 2018 and Financials 2018 The 2018 GRC and Finance SAP Insider Conferences took place in mid-February in Las Vegas. Our SAP teams spent time attending conference sessions, and their observations on what’s trending across the industry are compiled here in a five-part series. During the conference, SAP® announced a major update to the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) suite of products, with Access Control (AC), Process… Blog April 25, 2018 Serverless Cloud Architecture vs. Traditional Web Applications: A Difference in Risks Serverless application architectures, sometimes referred to as Function as a Service (FaaS), are rapidly growing in popularity. The attraction of an application that scales dynamically with load, charges only for actual usage and avoids the challenges of server management is undeniable. FaaS reduces some security risks but it can also increase others. Below are several examples to consider while… Blog May 7, 2018 After Security Remediation and Redesign: What’s Next? Tackling Segregation of Duties Risk with Quantitative Analytics Recent regulatory changes have shifted many conversations this year to topics such as lease accounting and data privacy, and SAPInsider’s 2018 GRC/Financials Conference was no exception. One of the most compelling topics at this year’s conference centered on the fact that, in addition to the added stress of ensuring compliance with… Blog May 8, 2018 Least Privilege Access and User Access Recertification: Not Just for SOX Anymore For many organizations, least privilege access controls and user access recertification are key components of their Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) risk and controls framework. Companies rely on these controls to ensure that transactions are appropriate by restricting access to authorized individuals. Other organizations place more reliance on monitoring controls to validate that changes made or… Blog May 10, 2018 Report from RSA Conference 2018: A Fresh Perspective Protiviti Technology Consulting manager Raheel Malik shares his observations from RSA Conference 2018, held in April in San Francisco. The many sessions at RSA Conference 2018 (RSAC 2018) had something for everyone, ranging from those concerned with legal implications, to the human element, to some very technical topics focusing on training machine learning models and newer encryption solutions… Blog May 15, 2018 Managing the New Currency: Developing a High-Performing Data Management Organization These days, the hot analogy in the analytics industry is that data is the new oil. Like oil, data must be found, extracted, refined and distributed. More companies are investing heavily in cutting-edge technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data processing to help them harvest, groom and apply data to the correct use case for maximum value. So why, then, in the midst… Blog May 15, 2018 AI and the Digital Future of the Insurance Industry Artificial intelligence (AI) is disrupting the insurance business. Though insurers are somewhat late to the party, compared with other industry groups, some have already implemented a broad range of applications for such AI staples as natural language processing (NLP), robotic process automation (RPA), machine learning (ML) and deep learning. I want to take a dive into three areas that are… Blog May 24, 2018 Want to Increase User Adoption? Try This Simple FRA2MEwork For as long as business intelligence (BI) has existed, organizations have made significant investments in high-performing platforms – only to find no one will use the solution. Why? For one, end users cannot find information quickly, or at all. Two, the information they do find isn’t relevant. Three, they expect their BI systems to work as effortlessly as popular search engines and social media,… Blog June 14, 2018 3 Ds to Compliance and Beyond with the New Lease Accounting Standards The clock is ticking as organizations get set to meet the requirements of new lease accounting standards. Issued in February 2016, FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 842 requires lessees to report assets and liabilities related to leases of one year or more on the balance sheet. The new lease standard takes effect starting December 2018 for public companies and a year later for… Load More
