Reduce the time, frustration and cost of your next SAP^® audit with a solution that embeds compliance into your daily activities administering SAP. By embedding compliance into your standard user and role change, transport, batch job and emergency access processes you can achieve a state of continuous compliance and audit readiness.

Always Audit Ready

Compliance can no longer take the form of a yearly, after-the-fact SAP audit. It needs to be embedded into day-to-day operations and business processes that are monitored continuously. ControlPanelGRC allows you to embed compliance into your standard processes to reduce the often-intrusive nature of tracking exceptions or authorizations. In turn, the toolset's flexibility creates real-time analysis, risk mitigation and reporting through an intuitive user interface that facilitates self-generated queries.

With ControlPanelGRC, auditors have the ability to benchmark your current state of compliance for comparison against previous state of compliance reviews on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual basis. This is particularly useful information for auditors who are always asking the question, "What's changed since I was here last?"  They also receive proof and documentation of the effectiveness of automated mitigating control, including the periodic review of compliance reports by risk owners, review of executed risks and more.

Eliminate Manual Sampling

The time-consuming, manual sampling processes typically used to assess compliance are often ineffective because they view only a small subset of the overall data. If an anomaly occurs in an area not examined, it can be missed completely — until a full audit is performed.

The continuous controls monitoring functionality built into ControlPanelGRC provides an SAP audit solution that reviews controls and transactional data on an ongoing, real-time basis and completely eliminates the need for manual sampling. Compliance is embedded into the business processes through a workflow that documents all change requests and approvals for review by auditors. The system continuously monitors for exceptions to controls, executed risks, and provides real-time notifications of anomalies. It puts the enterprise into a state of continuous audit readiness, reducing audit preparation time and cost while ensuring the organization is meeting its compliance obligations.

Beyond Segregation of Duties

Auditors realize that well-managed and well-controlled SAP systems require controls beyond the scope of Segregation of Duties (SOD). These professionals also know that — in addition to meeting Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance demands — they need to safeguard investors and other constituencies from process inefficiencies that lead to spend leakage, fraud, theft of data and system failures due to lack of effective controls. The ControlPanelGRC solution provides compliance automation and monitoring for key SAP audit areas:

• Segregation of duties
• Excessive access
• Sensitive authorizations
• Change management controls for compliant batch job processing
• Change management controls for compliant transport management
• Emergency access
• User and role changes management
• Periodic user access certification
• Business process controls for Procure to Pay, Order to Cash and more.