Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Sort by: Relevance Date Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blog December 10, 2020 How to Integrate Automated Controls in a Hybrid Agile SAP S/4HANA Implementation Many organizations have now started their journey to SAP S/4HANA or are currently in the midst of an implementation. It is important to integrate controls early in the implementation, rather than going through the effort of trying to incorporate these after go-live. This is referred to as a “design in” approach, opposed to a “retrofit” approach. Controls are integrated throughout the… Blog February 17, 2021 What to Know About Design-In Security and Controls for SAP S/4HANA (and What Auditors Care About) Having worked with different clients throughout the years, across industries and varying sizes, we notice there are many thematic “hot topics” and concerns that come in waves. Much of this has to do with evolving audit requirements, increased regulatory compliance and ensuring there is accountability, transparency, and… Survey November 13, 2019 An Urgent Call for KYC Optimization - A Global Market Study Calling for KYC Innovation and Collaboration Protiviti and the International RegTech Association (IRTA) conducted a global study to investigate the effectiveness of existing (AML) know your customer (KYC or AML/KYC) processes, their impact on customer experience across various jurisdictions and the efforts by financial institutions to innovate KYC controls. This study focuses on the optimization of KYC processes. It provides a blueprint for… Survey March 27, 2023 Industry Experience With Remote Branch Inspections Beginning in 2020, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and several states provided temporary relief from the operational challenges of conducting on-site branch inspections during the pandemic, allowing firms to utilize technology to fulfill their inspection obligations remotely. Now, FINRA has proposed a voluntary, three-year remote… Blog October 21, 2020 Governing SAP Applications with Cloud Identity Access Governance Previously, we wrote about Cloud Identity Access Governance (IAG) based on the latest news coming out of a recent SAPinsider event. In this post, we would like to provide an update on the solution and clarify two editions we think are important to understand. Integrations There has been renewed focus by SAP to continue to innovate and integrate their suite of enterprise applications.… Podcast April 26, 2023 Podcast | Select and Implement the Right Tech Tool for Your Finance Group – with Shelly Kalladanthyil and Nick McKeehan One of the most significant decisions a CFO faces is selecting the right technology or tool to help them run the finance organization and deliver expected results and value for the business. But technology selection is only the first step. There also is implementation, a just as important stage that can make or break the success of the technology and its effectiveness in the eyes of stakeholders… Blog March 4, 2021 A Modern Take on Data Visualization with SAP Analytics Cloud I have been working in data connectivity and visualization for over a decade and have spent countless hours building reports and dashboards to respond to a plethora of business needs. I have created operational reports for shop floor managers and financial dashboards for chief executives. If a position exists in an organization… Blog March 8, 2021 Automatic Predictive Forecasting in SAP Analytics Cloud One of my favorite things about being in business intelligence consulting is demonstrating toolsets to both existing and potential clients. I can quickly tell what resonates well and what does not. What typically resonates well are features that set the toolset apart from the competition. All competent BI toolsets can build a chart and add key performance… Blog March 1, 2021 The Role Data Plays in an SAP S/4HANA Move: Key Steps to Sustaining Value Data quality and SAP S/4HANA migration (either through greenfield or brownfield implementation) seem to be distantly connected topics and hard to convince that they do depend on each other quite significantly. We don’t need to talk about the importance of the data in this blog, as that has already been discussed enough. With the increased… Blog October 26, 2021 Understanding the Parallel Worlds of SAP and SIEM Traditionally, it has been a conundrum for many CISOs and CIOs working with SAP products on what is truly needed to ensure the security of their data for sensitivity or competitive advantage purposes. Standard Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) monitoring often fails to ensure the security of the SAP system because the specific SAP logs and analyses can’t be interpreted,… Load More