GRC Strategy & Optimization

Cut your way through the complexity of GRC topics: design your roadmap, find the best solutions and deployment strategy.

Every company is different — in their business processes, maturity and GRC objectives, regulatory environment, corporate culture, and IT landscape. Still, our experience shows common questions arise when automating GRC. Here are the top 7:

Strategy & Planning:

  • Business case: How can the value added by GRC be measured and how quickly will the investment pay off? What are the best strategies to secure management attention for GRC initiatives?
  • Roadmap: How can the needs of the widest range of risk and compliance stakeholders be addressed? What is the right balance between a decentralized compliance setup and a more centralized, structured governance model? What steps are required to realise a well‑managed, highly automated risk and compliance program?
  • Solution architecture: Which GRC solutions and components best support your goals? What are the dependencies and integration scenarios across SAP’s tool chain? Which integration options exist with business applications, and how can existing licenses, resources and skills be used most effectively?
  • Ongoing innovation: Which innovations in SAP’s GRC portfolio are expected in the short- and medium term? How can partners incorporate their own AI, UX, and other solutions into a robust, supportable setup while respecting SAP principles such as a clean core?

Optimization:

  • IT risk and compliance: Digital risk is no longer solely an IT concern but a top‑management priority. How should organization and processes be adjusted to protect assets and demonstrate compliance with cybersecurity, data‑protection and other regulations — and how can these changes be reflected in the IСS and risk framework?
  • Low‑hanging fruits: Which changes to your existing SAP GRC setup can maximize efficiency, deliver the greatest savings, and increase user acceptance? How can you benefit from better integration between Internal Controls and Enterprise Risk Management? How can support efforts be minimized?
  • Maximize monitoring automation: How can you reduce the number of manual controls in the ICS framework without increasing risk? How can CCM functionality be rolled out across a heterogeneous landscape? What criteria should be used to prioritize and shortlist monitoring scenarios? Can SOC and ITGC/Compliance teams leverage the same risk-and-control monitoring solutions?
  • Get clean & stay clean: Which tools help maintain existing roles or implement new ones to meet SoD requirements and align with your organisation and processes? How can audit findings on critical authorizations be resolved most efficiently? How can authorization certification or a sustainable mitigation process for residual risks be established? How can compensating controls be integrated into the overall IKS?

We look forward to hearing from you if our “Top 7” appealed to you and you would like to learn more.