Compliance

1. Go Beyond Compliance with SAP EHS Management: 1 Best Practice, 2 Challenges, and 4 Opportunities to Reduce Operational Risk
   Peter Bussey, SAP
   July 1, 2010
   We've seen them in the news: costly, unwanted accidents in business operations. In this installment of the "Sustainable Business" column, SAP’s Peter Bussey presents a systems management approach to mitigating environmental, health, and safety (EHS) risks, as well as discusses key SAP solutions that can help companies prevent adverse operational incidents.
2. Make Compliance a Seamless Part of Your Security Workflow: How GRC and Identity Management Solutions Can Work Together to Mitigate Segregation of Duties Risks
   Regine Schimmer and Jens Koster, SAP AG
   April 1, 2010
   Many companies are realizing that they must weave governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) principles into their security processes. By complementing their existing identity management functionality with a GRC solution that manages access control, companies can enable compliant identity management, ensuring that roles and authorizations assigned to a user do not contain conflicting rights. This secures the identity management process, while making it completely compliant.
3. If Your AP Process Is Paper-Based, You’re Opening the Door to Internal Fraud: Ensure End-to-End Visibility and Audit Control with SAP Invoice Management
   Bil Khan, SAP
   April 1, 2010
   Companies lose about US$130,000 to every fraudulent act stemming from accounts payable (AP) employees. This article reveals the trick to curtailing corporate fraud — a fully optimized automation program like SAP Invoice Management by Open Text.
4. SAPinsider Special Report: The IFRS Transition
   SAP and Partners
   January 1, 2010
   Many companies are on the brink of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) transition, but many still have questions: When should we implement IFRS? How should we prepare? Who do we involve? Get expert advice and recommendations from SAP executives and partners in this special report.
5. SAP Insider Special Report: Governance, Risk, and Compliance
   SAP and participating vendors
   October 1, 2009
   No acronym is more misunderstood than GRC — short for governance, risk, and compliance. With help from SAP and partners, learn how to navigate through the GRC maze and find the right mix of processes and technology for your organization's specific governance needs.
6. Enable Governance and Security Across Your Business Processes: 4 Key Activities for Security Administrators in an SOA Environment
   Yonko Yonchev, SAP AG, and Peter McNulty, SAP Labs
   October 1, 2009
   SOA governance is critical to the success of your SOA initiatives — and any SOA governance plan must be accompanied by a dedicated security effort. Arm yourself with a solid action plan as you secure your business processes and properly govern your SOA activities.
7. SAP Insider Special Feature: Governance, Risk, and Compliance
   SAP and Partners
   October 1, 2008
   Risks are inherent in decisions made at every level within an organization. Is your company equipped to deal with the dynamic nature of the risks you must contend with? What steps can you take to achieve more risk-adjusted thinking? Uncover the SAP and partner solutions to help you answer these key questions.
8. SAP NetWeaver Identity Management: How Can You Leverage Its Benefits Now?
   Dr. Franz-Josef Fritz and Torgeir Pedersen, SAP AG
   October 1, 2008
   As your IT landscape expands, involving more services and external sources, how do you ensure that the right users are accessing the right solutions?
9. Getting Started with Identity Management: A Roadmap for Automated, Regulated User Access to IT Resources
   Keith Grayson, SAP
   April 1, 2008
   For many companies, identity management is time-consuming, costly, and inefficient. Learn how to balance “real” and “ideal” identity management by starting with two simple goals: preparing your organization for change and cleansing your data.
10. SAP's Strategy for End-to-End ILM Success: The Information Lifecycle Management Solution from SAP Bridges the Gap Between Applications and Storage Technology for Legal Compliance
    Dr. Axel Herbst, SAP AG and Tanja Kaufmann, SAP AG
    January 1, 2008
    Ensuring that your company’s data — and management of that data — meets regulatory and business requirements can cost you millions, if handled incorrectly. Pick up seven key takeaways to prepare for successful information lifecycle management (ILM).
11. GRC by the Numbers: ASUG/SAP Benchmarking Study Reveals Early Trends in Governance, Risk, and Compliance Initiatives
    Steve Strout, ASUG
    January 1, 2008
    Find out how the SAP/ASUG benchmarking program has helped more than 200 companies across over 12 industries discern their strengths (and weaknesses!) regarding their GRC practices.
12. Does Procurement Play a Starring Role in Your Compliance Strategy? It Should!
    Don MacLennan, SAP
    April 1, 2007
    Since so much accidental business risk can be traced back to your supply base, companies are wise to root their compliance strategy in the procurement department. Learn how procurement can prove its value to the business by spearheading a company’s compliance efforts, and discover the SAP capabilities that will support them.
13. SAP Insider Special Feature: Governance, Risk, and Compliance
    SAP and Partners
    October 1, 2006
14. A 4-Step Blueprint for Achieving Sustainable Compliance!
    Neetin Datar, SAP
    January 1, 2006
    Businesses that regard compliance as an expensive distraction tend to take a piecemeal approach, implementing one-off solutions to meet specific regulatory requirements. But with a more strategic view, your compliance efforts can lend business value to your company. Learn the four steps to take to ensure your governance, risk, and compliance strategy is sustainable -- that is, aligned with your overall corporate strategy and executed within a sustainable cost structure.