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In our content center, you will find everything from our SAP capabilities and offers to our thought leadership and client stories. Everything you need to learn more about our SAP practice and how we can best support you.
SAP Solutions
Additional Resources
- 2021 CIO Perspectives: Strategic Business Priorities and the SAP Agenda
- How to Select an ERP System
- Understanding the Responsibilities of the Business During an ERP System Implementation
- The Business Case for S/4HANA Research Report
- Moving to the Cloud: Leveraging SAP on Azure
- Application Managed Services
Finance Transformation
Offerings
- Phase 0 Assessment for S/4HANA and CFIN
- S/4HANA Implementation Services: Effectively Execute this Mission Critical Initiative
- S/4HANA Implementation: Strengthening Business Responsibilities with Support Services
- SAP Fiori Enablement Framework: Increasing User Adoption of SAP S/4HANA
- Establish a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Operating Model with SAP iRPA
- SAP Analytics Cloud with xP&A Accelerator: An FP&A Quick Start
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Watch Our xP&A Accelerator Video: SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning
Client Stories & Thought Leadership
- How SAP Customers Responded to Protiviti’s Finance Trends Survey
- Central Finance and Improving the Financial Close Research Report
- Enabling Finance Process Digitalization with SAP Central Finance
- Get More Value from Your SAP Central Finance System
- The Journey to SAP S/4HANA - An Overview of Key Changes and Associated Risks
- Phase Zero of the SAP S/4HANA Journey
- Phase 4 of the SAP S/4HANA Journey Prepare and Modernize
- Leveraging Intelligent Technologies in the Intelligent Enterprise
Data Management & Analytics
Offerings
- SAP Cloud Enablement: A Road Map to Analytics in the Cloud
- Build a HANA Analytics Foundation with InsightViews
- Watch InsightViews Video: An Analytics Quick Start for SAP
- Process Mining: Take the Guesswork out of Your Process Analytics
- Create an SAP Analytics COE
- BusinessObjects Upgrades: Fixed Price Options, Add-Ons Available
- Maximize Your Resources with Reporting as a Service
- Migrating Your Explorer and Dashboards to SAC Before Flash Support Ends
Client Stories & Thought Leadership
- Breakthru Beverage Group Reaches New Horizon on Journey to Become a Fully Integrated, Data-Driven Business
- National Vision Enhances SAP Business Planning and Consolidation with SAP Analytics Cloud
- Data Analytics Solution Helps Pharmaceutical Giant Focus on Improving Clinical Trials and Saving Lives
- Passion Makes Purr-fect: Pet Food Manufacturer Expands Product Offerings, Market and Sales Channels
- National Vision Goes 20/20 with Next-Level Enterprise Data Solution
- Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment with Healthy Data Solutions
- Going Digital? Make Data Strategy a Priority
Security, GRC and Controls Design
Offerings
- GRC Upgrade Services
- Data Security & Privacy with BigID
- Enabling a Successful Transformation with Project Risk Management
Client Stories & Thought Leadership
Events and Webinars
Whether live, virtual or on-demand, we invite you to join us for one of our events or webinars. Hear from subject matter experts and customers as they share their SAP knowledge and experience enabling you to gain best practices and processes to ensure the success of your SAP landscape.
Unleash the Power of SAP on Azure
Date: June 17, 2021
Location: On-demand
New business process requirements, rising costs and increasing amounts of data can make it a challenge to run and protect business-critical SAP functions. Cloud deployment of SAP solutions provides a fast, scalable and repeatable process for implementing full SAP stacks in the cloud. Microsoft Azure provides the trusted path to enterprise-ready innovation — bringing the intelligence, security and reliability of Azure to your SAP applications.
During this webinar, our SAP on Azure experts will discuss how migrating SAP workloads to Azure can support your business-critical needs and will also cover:
- How SAP on Azure helps increase performance, agility and availability of your SAP applications.
- What’s new with SAP on Azure
- Customer Highlight: See how SAP on Azure positively impacted a hospitality organization’s business
Part 1: How to Adopt a Hybrid Lens for your Financial Planning Strategy
Available On-Demand
Location: Virtual
As the future of planning becomes more cloud-focused, businesses like yours are faced with options. You can hold onto your on-premise solution and its familiar functionalities, re-invest with the Cloud and all its innovations, or take a step-by-step approach and explore a hybrid strategy that allows you to transition to the Cloud at your own pace.
Join us with National Vision and trusted SAP Partner, Protiviti, in this webinar series to learn how to leverage Cloud capabilities and your existing investments in processes and historical plan data. In this webinar, you will gain insight into how National Vision extended their financial planning to the Cloud and benefited from:
- More efficient planning processes across the enterprise
- Shorter planning cycles to prioritize other planning processes
- Reduced silos to improve collaborative enterprise planning at all levels
- Granular analysis capabilities and deeper financial and operational insights
Be sure to save your spot in Part 1 of this series to gain insider tips for kickstarting your extended planning and analysis journey in the Cloud!
Part 2: How to Adopt a Hybrid Lens for your Financial Planning Strategy
Available On-Demand
Location: Virtual
What if we told you there is an approach that enables you to keep up with technological changes while still leveraging your existing data and what you’ve built within your legacy systems? SAP’s hybrid strategy allows you to achieve just that.
In this webinar, learn how you can scale your financial and operational planning by extending SAP Business Planning and Consolidation with SAP Analytics Cloud. We’ll have experts from Protiviti and the SAP Global Center of Excellence dive into how you can leverage SAP Analytics Cloud’s planning, predictive, and analytics capabilities for better decision-making. We’ll also explore National Vision’s reporting dashboards and show how SAP Analytics Cloud offers:
- One combined solution for modeling, charting, creating visualizations, and planning
- Smart technology to offer clear visibility into cost and revenue drivers
- Predictive capabilities to respond quickly to market disruptions, competition, and performance
- Built-in collaboration for consistent processes across the organization
Register for Part 2 of this series where financial planning and analysis professionals will show you SAP Analytics Cloud in action and address any of your questions!
SAP Business Technology Platform with Customer Scenarios for Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud Planning
Available On-Demand
Location: Hosted on SAP’s Platform
Want to empower your business users with agile analytics on the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud solutions? Join SAP and Protiviti for a one-hour workshop featuring best practices, use cases, and demos, all designed to help your company lead with a modern financial platform that’s focused on these two solutions.
During the session, we’ll demonstrate how to facilitate collaborative enterprise planning and analytics across both finance and operations, and you’ll hear SAP customer Stericycle share how they’re accelerating the analysis of both SAP and non-SAP data using SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. In addition, Blue Buffalo will discuss how they’re changing the way their business units conduct ongoing planning using the latest data from customers and internal operations.
5-Part SAP Webinar Series: Enabling Your Financial Transformation Journey Leveraging SAP Solutions
Join our 5-part SAP webinar series to learn how our Phase 0 approach and a well-designed roadmap can enable your finance transformation journey while exploring how SAP solutions can improve your processes, productivity, user experience, operational performance and, most importantly, your profitability.
- Feb 25 | Phase 0 – Preparing for Your Financial Transformation Journey
- Mar 4 | Executing Your Finance Transformation With SAP S/4HANA Finance
- Mar 25 | Protecting S/4HANA Finance With Emerging Security and Control Technologies
- Apr 1 | Analyzing Your Finance and Operational Performance With SAP Analytics Cloud Planning
- Apr 15 | Optimizing Processes and User Experience With SAP Fiori
Effectively Manage Enterprise Risk in Today's Connected Technology Ecosystem
On-Demand
Protiviti is proud to co-host with Fastpath a virtual session on "Effectively Managing Enterprise Risk in Today's Connected Technology Ecosystem".
In today’s world of interconnected business applications, succeeding at managing and controlling enterprise security is a must. Although past approaches for managing risk around access and segregation of duties are still relevant, evolutions in robotic process automation, data privacy, cybersecurity, and shadow IT require a different focus than general IT control reviews. A strong enterprise security program takes a holistic approach to mitigating risk by considering how technology, people, and processes can work together to address threats both inside and outside of your business. So, how can you instill confidence in your executive team that the enterprise security controls developed will be effective?
Join this webinar and learn how to:
- Apply the people+process+technology equation to create a strong framework for your enterprise security strategy.
- Convince leadership that the security framework you are proposing will be effective.
- Empower employees to take control of enterprise security with more awareness of threats and methods that all users can follow to mitigate risk.
Part 1 - Securing Operations: Manage Access Governance with SAP
On-Demand
CISO's and CIO's need help to effectively enable a remote workforce, while simultaneously ensuring staff can do their jobs in a secure manner.
In this session, experts from Protiviti and SAP will discuss how you can implement risk based and multi-factors authentication methods, automated end-to-end identity lifecycle management for your employees on an hybrid information system and identify anomalous user activity to prevent cybercrime.
Part 2 - Securing Operations: Monitor Cyber-threats and Protect Sensitive Data with SAP On Demand
On-Demand
CISO's and CIO's need help to effectively enable a remote workforce, while simultaneously ensuring staff can do their jobs in a secure manner.
In this second session from our webinar series, experts from Protiviti and SAP will discuss how you can monitor that best practices are applied to the security configuration of your SAP landscape, how to identify anomalous user activity or intrusion into your applicative layer to prevent cybercrime. We will also focus on Data Loss Prevention capacities to protect your sensitive data and how to guarantee the sovereignty of your user data in the cloud (from hackers but also from potentially intrusive regulations).
SAP Security Webinar Series
On-Demand
- Practical Guide to SAP Security: Select the right SAP Security Controls for your organization
- Keeping Secure and in Compliant in the Cloud
- How to go from an SAP assessment report to a risk-based practical approach on mitigation and remediation
- Detecting malicious activities in SAP by integrating SAP into your Security Operations Center (SOC)
- A holistic view of SAP HANA Security
SAP Enterprise Resilience Series
On-Demand
- Effectively Managing SAP Security Risks in the Modern World
- Leveraging SAP Risk Management and Process Control To Streamline Enterprise Risk Management in a Virtual Environment
- Planning for the Unplanned: See how SAP Analytics Cloud Planning Can Enable Predictive Forecasting in a Volatile Market
Blogs
We feature several different blog sites, from The Protiviti View offering corporate insight on market trends to our Technology Insights providing thoughts on overall technology developments to our SAP Insights offering specific thoughts around SAP solutions and technologies. We invite you to review and subscribe to any or all of these valuable resources.
SAP Insights
Perspectives from Our Experts on SAP Solutions and Technologies
Our SAP Blog site features commentary, insights and points of view from Protiviti’s subject-matter experts on key technology challenges companies are facing, as well as new and emerging developments from our research projects. Whether you are new to SAP or a long-time user, we hope you will find this information valuable.
Recent Blogs
- Leveraging Intelligent Technologies in the Intelligent Enterprise
- Planning for the Unplanned: Predictive Forecasting with SAP Analytics Cloud Planning
- Leveraging SAP Risk Management and Process Control to Streamline Enterprise Risk Management
Technology Consulting Insights
Perspectives from Our Experts on Technology Trends and Risks
Protiviti’s Technology Consulting practice leverages emerging technologies and methodologies to innovate, while helping organizations transform and succeed by focusing on business value.
The Protiviti View
Perspectives from Our Experts on Market Trends, Business Developments and Risks
This blog, hosted by Protiviti Managing Director Jim DeLoach, features commentary, insights and points of view from Jim and other Protiviti leaders and SMEs on key challenges and risks facing companies today, along with new and emerging developments in the market. Topics include, but are not limited to, regulatory compliance, board-level concerns, information technology, performance management and improvement, finance and operational issues, and broader governance and business trends.
Newsletter
Our monthly newsletter is dedicated to SAP content. We provide commentary, insights and points of view from Protiviti subject-matter experts as well as third parties on key technology challenges companies are facing as well as new and emerging developments from our research projects.
Click to view our most recent issue below or visit our archives.
January 2021 Issue
- Data-Driven Solutions Create New, Innovative Connections to Enhance Operations
- Enhancing Customer Experience and Driving User Adoption with SAP Fiori
- Common Pitfalls of ERP Implementations: A Project Risk Management Perspective
- Taking a Test Drive of SAP Analytics Cloud Report Design
- SAPinsider GRC / FIN 2021
- Take a Look Back at Our Top Performing Blogs of 2020!
February 2021 Issue
- Build an Analytics Center of Excellence with the Support of AMS
- Why Choose a Cloud Installation with SAP BusinessObjects 4.3
- What to Know About Design-In Security and Controls for SAP S/4HANA (and What Auditors Care About)
- Maximizing the SAP S/4HANA Investment Post Implementation
- 5-Part Webinar Series
- 6-Part Webinar Series
- SAPinsider GRC / FIN 2021
- Take a Look Back at Our Top Performing Blogs of 2020!
March 2021 Issue
- 5-Part Webinar Series
- 6-Part Webinar Series
- 2021 CIO Perspectives: Strategic Business Priorities and the SAP Agenda
- Why Now is the Best Time to Move to HANA 2.0 - Part 1: The Advantages
- Bots are Better: Improving SAP Compliance Testing Processes...and More
- iPlan: How to Accelerate SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning Implementation
- Automatic Predictive Forecasting in SAP Analytics Cloud
- A Modern Take on Data Visualization with SAP Analytics Cloud
- The Role Data Plays in an SAP S/4HANA Move: Key Steps to Sustaining Value
- Take a Look Back at Our Top Performing Blogs of 2020!
April 2021 Issue
- Upgrading to GRC 12? Time’s Up!
- Register for a 2-Part Series on Financial Planning
- Why Now is the Best Time to Move to HANA 2.0 - Part 2: The Migration
- Decisions, Decisions: Choosing the Right SAP Fiori Deployment Scenario
- Key Ingredients for a Successful SAP Finance Transformation
- Understanding Business Responsibilities During an SAP S/4HANA or Central Finance Transformation Journey - Part 1
- 5-Part Webinar Series - On Demand
May 2021 Issue
- Lessons from a Pandemic: SAP Leaders Detail Financial Tech Trends
- Unleash the Power of SAP on Microsoft Azure
- Register for a 2-Part Series on Financial Planning
- Understanding Business Responsibilities During an SAP S/4HANA or Central Finance Transformation - Part 2
- SAP GRC and Security Design Nuances for SAP Utilities
- SAPPHIRE NOW 2021
June 2021 Issue
- 2021 Finance Trends Survey
- SAP Analytics Cloud Planning and Group Reporting are the Next Generation of Planning and Consolidation
- Lessons Learned During an SAP Risk Management Implementation
- 3 Critical Deployment, Implementation Decisions on the S/4HANA Journey
- Unleash the Power of SAP on Microsoft Azure
July 2021 Issue
- 2021 Resource Survey
- Move Over, Excel! Insights on Implementing SAP Audit Management
- How SAP S/4HANA Finance Simplifies ERP Challenges for Manufacturing and Distribution Clients
- How to Manage Data Challenges of Globalization with SAP Data Quality Management
- Protiviti's SAP Consulting Services
August 2021 Issue
- Improve Resilience While Managing Risk, Compliance, and Controls
- Demand Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud for the Consumer Products Industry
- Four Steps to Keeping SAP's Financial Process Compliant: Step 1
- Four Steps to Keeping SAP's Financial Process Compliant: Step 2
- Protiviti's Extended Planning & Analysis Accelerator
- 2021 Resource Survey
September 2021 Issue
- 2022 Top Risks Survey
- Four Steps to Keeping SAP's Financial Process Compliant - Step 3: Implement Internal Control Governance
- Step 4: Enable Intelligent SAP Control Automation
- Establishing a Successful SAP Identity Access Governance Center of Excellence
- Revisiting SAP Analytics Cloud Report Design
- Guide to Technology Modernization & Transformation
- Cybersecurity Webinar Series 2021
October 2021 Issue
- SAPInsider Survey: The CIO's 2021 Transformation Report Card
- Where to Start Modernizing SAP Access Governance with GRC 12.0 Fiori Capabilities: Part 1
- Where to Start Modernizing SAP Access Governance with GRC 12.0 Fiori Capabilities: Part 2
- 5 Considerations to Improve SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics Reporting
- Understanding the Parallel Worlds of SAP and SIEM
- Cybersecurity Webinar Series 2021
November 2021 Issue
- How to Elevate SAP Analytics Programs with Alteryx
- How Process Mining Enables Acceleration of the Digital Transformation Journey
- SAPinsider 2022
December 2021 Issue
- The CIO’s 2021 Transformation Report Card
- Establishing an Omni-Channel Data Management Process Using SAP Information Steward
- SAP Workloads in the Cloud: Opportunities and Risks
- SAPinsider 2022
