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 27, 2022 What to Expect from the BusinessObjects Private Cloud Edition Experience SAP BusinessObjects continues to dominate business intelligence, so to continue offering a best-in-class platform, SAP is moving SAP BusinessObjects into the cloud. Known as SAP BusinessObjects Private Cloud Edition (PCE), SAP is offering the best of the BusinessObjects platform while easing the most cumbersome aspects of managing the platform. In this post, I share Protiviti’s experience with… Blog May 17, 2022 Embedded Analytics: Make Data the Highlight of your Next Dinner Party Embedded analytics have rapidly become one of the new “art of the possible” scenarios to add to a long-term business intelligence strategy. In a previous blog post, found here, we provided considerations for analytical leadership within primarily SAP-centric environments. This post intends to help business leaders understand what embedded analytics are and how they can drive action and data-… Blog June 5, 2022 Considerations for Keeping SAP Cloud Applications Secure Many SAP customers continue to migrate applications to the cloud and are excited to take advantage of opportunities to innovate, but awareness of the security aspects of cloud-based applications is important to ensuring that compliance and risk are kept top of mind. Customers who have traditionally only managed on-premise application security may be unsure of which aspects are new or different… Blog March 3, 2022 Preparing for an IPO? Make Sure Transformation Includes Setting a People Strategy Amid the many demands of preparing for and undertaking an initial public offering (IPO), don’t forget your people. Organizations contemplating a state of public company readiness must undergo a complex transformation process that impacts all business functions. Upgrading technology, improving financial reporting processes, and implementing governance, risk and compliance capabilities are all… Blog March 7, 2022 It’s the end of the work as we know it, and I feel fine What is the future of work? It’s a simple question with complex answers. The pandemic has had a profound impact on work, workforces, and workplaces, transforming them in unprecedented ways. Over the last two years, no aspect of business has been immune to the disruption and chaos it’s caused around the globe. Work was already in a state of change before the pandemic, but the pace of change… Blog March 9, 2022 Regulatory Scrutiny and Labor Issues Top Healthcare Risks Over the Next Decade After two years of navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations are trying to take full stock of how the crisis has changed their business and industry, while also trying to ready themselves for what’s likely to come next. And based on the findings from our latest Top Risks Survey, what these organizations see on the horizon for this year, and for the decade to come, is an array of… Blog March 10, 2022 Stop Kicking the Can: Why Companies Must Think Long Term to Solve Supply Chain Challenges The global supply chain has been in crisis for many months now — and all signs point to disruption and uncertainty remaining the status quo for years to come. Findings for Protiviti’s latest global Top Risks Survey show that manufacturers are very concerned about being able to deliver their products or services at acceptable margins now and in the future. The C-suite executives in the… Blog March 15, 2022 New Protiviti Research: Innovation and Transformation Are Driving the Future of Internal Auditing Innovation is about the creation of ideas and how those ideas can translate into value. It is about new and different ways of thinking and working, performing established activities in new and better ways, and pursuing new ideas. Many organizations — including their CAEs and internal audit functions — are operating in a significantly different manner than they did just a few years ago. They are… Blog March 16, 2022 The War in Ukraine Rages On: The Energy Fallout Over the last two weeks, the world has witnessed harrowing images of Russian atrocities in targeting civilians with indiscriminate bombardment of residential areas, medical facilities and infrastructure. Ukrainian resistance has stiffened as a tragic humanitarian crisis has unfolded. Almost three million refugees have fled the country as the Russian military relies on long-range firepower,… Blog August 4, 2021 Four Steps to Keeping SAP’s Financial Processes Compliant: Step 1 Step 1: Analyze SAP configuration and processes Protiviti has identified four key steps that organizations can take to improve their overall control environment and receive the benefits mentioned below. Each of these steps will be a focus in this four-part blog series. Too many organizations perform their financial and operational processes using inefficient manual controls, paper-based… Load More