Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog Fit-to-Standard vs. Customization in SAP S/4HANA: How to Decide What’s Right During any SAP S/4HANA implementation, companies face a critical decision that will define the project's success: Does the business adapt to the software or does the software adapt to the business? This is foundational to both the idea of establishing a clean core (a strategic approach to maintaining a streamlined, cloud-compliant ERP system, minimizing customizations while leveraging modern… Blog Securing Skilled Talent Now and in the Future Requires Manufacturing and Distribution Companies to Evolve Their Human Capital Management Approach Manufacturing and distribution (M&D) leaders across the globe are focused on positioning their companies to compete in a post-pandemic recovery and keep pace with the accelerating transition to Industry 4.0. But as they do, many worry that a long-standing, industrywide issue could hold their business back: the struggle to hire and retain skilled talent. In the latest top-risks survey… Blog Podcast: Future of Analytics – Empowering Intelligent Decision Making The current and future state of risk analytics is bedrock to empowering the compliance function’s forward-looking agenda. With the evolution of enterprise risks, advancements in analytics, and the ever-morphing regulatory landscape, compliance can be transformed by being further data driven, and monetize the deployment of advanced analytics in empowering intelligent decision-making and risk… Blog Rising SOX Compliance Hours and Costs Underscore Need for Technology Enablement, Finds New Protiviti Survey Protiviti’s twelfth annual Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance Survey finds that 65% of respondents who reported an increase in their SOX compliance hours said those hours increased by more than 10% over the prior year. Rising SOX compliance hours coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the continued need to deploy technology and automation within compliance processes as well as look for… Blog The crime of our time: Ex FBI agent turned NEFCC CEO takes on elder fraud “With respect to AI, clearly, our adversaries do not have a board of governance that requires ethical use of AI. They use it however it suits them.” “When you’re talking $160 billion leaving the country and going to organized crime groups overseas, what are they doing with that money? They’re reinvesting it in affecting more Americans.”“The corporate participation is obviously the key to this,… Blog The Lakehouse Performance Boost: How Fabric’s Materialized Lake Views Save Time and Resources Those who work in the data world, especially with a modern platform like Microsoft Fabric, are likely familiar with medallion architecture, where data is carefully moved from its raw bronze state to a cleaned and conformed silver layer and finally to a business-ready gold layer. Each layer serves a purpose, but once data reaches the analytical silver and gold layers, the focus shifts from… Blog AI-Powered Quality Assurance Ushers in a New Era of Speed and Precision Whether launching a customer-facing app or a cloud-native platform or integrating emerging technologies, effective quality assurance (QA) ensures software performs flawlessly, consistently, securely and swiftly. With AI, this strategic pillar of modern enterprises is undergoing a transformation — evolving into intelligent QA that delivers greater speed, precision and adaptability in testing.… Blog Doing Business in California? New Climate Risk Reporting May Affect You January 1. A brief background Back in 2023, Governor Newsom of California signed into law two state senate bills, SB 253 and SB 261, requiring companies that do business in California to disclose their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate-related financial risks. It was a different political climate in the U.S. at the time, and California’s newly minted laws were on track to join federal legislation… Blog 2021 Offers U.S. Oil and Gas Firms Challenges Laced With Opportunities Historically, the oil and gas (O&G) industry has proven to be nothing if not resilient. However, the COVID-19 disruption has tested the mettle of even the largest and most dynamic companies in the sector, and leaders at many O&G companies in the United States already see that 2021 is full of more challenges to come. Factors shaping that view include uncertainty stemming from the… Blog Latest Payroll Rescue Aid for Airlines Compounds Compliance Workload The compliance requirements for airlines participating in the payroll support and loan programs initially instituted under the CARES Act in the United States continue to increase in volume and complexity with the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Like previous emergency funding packages, the $14 billion of direct aid for payroll support comes with many restrictions, and airlines… Load More