Creating an Advanced Reporting Interface for SAP Applications
Objective
Advanced Reporting Interface for SAP applications.
The Client
The client is an expert solution provider for SAP based applications.
The Business Challenge
SAP applications help companies automate their end-to-end business processes.
However, this automation brings inherent complexity in terms of managing users and
authorizations, master data and configurable controls. From going live with a new
system to managing an existing deployment, companies face more challenges than ever
in ensuring compliant authorizations, secure system settings, and monitoring user
activity and adherence to policies.
Business, finance, IT and audit professionals face an array of challenging questions as
they try to strengthen controls throughout their SAP systems:
How do you uncover existing Segregation of Duties issues, down to the lowest
security levels, such as t-codes and authorization objects?
How do you keep new controls issues from arising through the course of normal
change processes?
How can you gain insight into what activities users are performing?
How do you ensure that business policies are being adhered to through the
course of daily transactions?
How do you determine if master data and configurable controls are defined
properly?
How do you manage these challenges across multiple SAP instances, without
ever affecting their system performance?
And beyond SAP, how do you apply your controls efforts to non-SAP systems? You
need to make sure that your compliance efforts scale across the business and don't get
soiled into individual applications.
The Xceed Solution
Xceed partnered with the client to develop an Enterprise Controls Suite that enables
business, finance, IT and audit to work together to automate and strengthen business
controls. With this Suite, organizations increase visibility into both application security
controls and business process controls, across their SAP deployments.
Business-friendly reports abstract the complexity of the underlying system settings to enable collaboration among all key compliance stakeholders.
Continuous monitoring with exception-based reporting pushes the right
information to the right people at the right time.
Business controls are organized in a single, manageable library that spans
across instances and applications and can easily be customized to keep up with
your ever-changing business needs.Application-independent architecture ensures support for all enterprise systems,
without introducing performance degradation.
