by Jayne Gibbon, Director Customer Care, SAP
GRC Expert - Volume 5 (2012), Update 1

Today’s business world is moving faster than ever. Approval bottlenecks cost companies money by delaying the ability to address critical business requirements. These bottlenecks include access approvals. The SAP GRC Access Approver application improves the speed at which employees can gain access to systems they need to complete their jobs. Learn how to use this mobile application to manage access requests in your environment.

by Gary Byrne, Managing Editor, Financials Expert and GRC Expert
GRC Expert - Volume 5 (2012), Update 1

SAP’s Frank Rambo comments on guidelines to follow and pitfalls to avoid when implementing SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 solutions.

by Shweta Jain, Manager, Axis Risk Consulting
GRC Expert - Volume 5 (2012), Update 1

Be sure your internal control structure is adequately designed during an SAP system implementation or upgrade. It can be expensive to redo this structure after the designed processes are in place, as an SAP system implementation is a major transformational activity involving organization-wide process changes.

by Maurizio Binatti, SAP GRC Consultant, Aglea s.r.l.
GRC Expert - Volume 4 (2011), Update 9

Learn how to measure and assess whether three-way match invoice control has been effectively implemented — in terms of security, segregation of duties (SoD), and processes — to reduce the risk of fraud and monetary losses over the procure-to-pay (P2P) process.

by Kees van Westerop, Senior SAP Consultant, Kwest Consulting
GRC Expert - Volume 4 (2011), Update 8

In a few European Union (EU) countries, companies receiving goods without an invoice receipt must make an acquisition tax accrual and include it in a value-added tax (VAT) declaration to be able to comply with legal reporting requirements. The goods must have been shipped from other EU countries. Discover how SAP’s acquisition tax accrual functionality expedites this process.

by Rudr
GRC Expert - Volume 4 (2011), Update 9

One of the key advantages of SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 10.0 is the multiuser access request feature. With this feature, multiple user access requests can be combined into a single request to save time and effort. This feature was available in SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 5.3’s compliant user provisioning functionality, but it had limited capabilities. Learn about how SAP has enhanced multiuser request submission in SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 10.0. You can use SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 10.0 for multiuser request submissions during go-live or to provide the same roles to numerous SAP users.

by Frank Rambo, Director, Customer Solution Adoption EMEA, SAP
GRC Expert - Volume 4 (2011), Update 9

SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 10.0 centralizes what has traditionally been the disparate process of administering exception-based access. In the past administrators maintained firefighter, owner, and supervisor assignments locally in each system, and business users initiated firefighter sessions in these systems. In version 10.0, however, the process of maintenance and initialization of firefighter sessions is done from the SAP BusinessObjects GRC platform. Additionally, a new workflow provides an auditable process for ensuring that supervisors review the new consolidated log reports following firefighter activity. Examine how log reports are augmented, providing a more complete tracking of firefighter activity. Learn how to use new features available with version 10.0 adding significant value around your emergency access management process.

by Rajesh Malle and Rajen Iyer, Krypt, Inc.
GRC Expert - Volume 4 (2011), Update 9

In growing globalization, free trade agreements provide a comparative advantage for companies engaged with business within a specific trade zone. Implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services creates a combined solution to mitigate risk, better manage the process life cycle, and automatically deliver NAFTA certificates to customers.

by Ravi Kalluri, SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services Consultant, Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
GRC Expert - Volume 4 (2011), Update 8

Learn how SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services handles the restitution process in the European Union. Understand how to configure restitution functionality in SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services 8.0 through a step-by-step configuration checklist.

by Vivek Sadhale, Company Secretary and Head of Legal and Investor Relations, Persistent Systems Limited, and Vikas Agarwal, Senior Manager, Corporate Secretarial, Persistent Systems Limited
GRC Expert - Volume 4 (2011), Update 8

Due diligence is a key step during mergers and acquisitions (M&A). SAP offers four tools (SAP BusinessObjects Watchlist Security; SAP BusinessObjects Governance, Risk, and Compliance solutions; SAP BusinessObjects Access Control; and SAP StreamWork) to help you mitigate risk during the M&A transaction.