Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog December 17, 2019 Do the Math: Using Data to Make Informed Risk Management Decisions The concept of achieving effective data-driven risk management may sound intimidating, but ultimately, it’s about organizations trying to make well-informed business decisions using their available data and subject matter expertise. Unfortunately, many of the ways that organizations measure and execute against risk fail to quantify and frame the risk challenges in a way that decision makers can… Podcast December 12, 2021 The Buffett Newspaper Test: What It Means Transparency and consequences can be powerful leadership deterrents. Blog January 16, 2020 Operational Resilience – Protecting Against Extreme and Adverse Events When extreme events happen, it’s major news. And likely, we all find ourselves thinking, “Thank God it’s not us.” This time. We all remember the 2017 nightmare scenario shipping giant Maersk endured when it was infected with the NotPetya virus, essentially bringing the company’s infrastructure and technology to a complete halt. Forty thousand end-user devices, 4,500 servers and 2,500 applications… Blog January 28, 2020 Central Finance: Exciting Improvements to the Latest Release – 1909 Central Finance (CFIN) powered by SAP S/4HANA 1909 provides businesses with the ability to drive transformation beyond just a centralized reporting system. Central Finance is evolving from financial harmonization and consolidation to add additional tangible benefits for businesses including central payments, centralized receivable management, centralized procurement with Ariba and group reporting… Blog February 5, 2020 Lightning Strikes. Clients Win. Lightning Web Components was a hot topic at Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference and continues to be top of mind with clients. Companies at varying stages in their Salesforce journey -- from rookies to experienced users -- are looking to optimize and modernize their existing Salesforce solutions with its latest technologies, in order to keep meeting and exceeding their business and… Blog February 6, 2020 Simplify Cloud Accounting to Deliver Perfect Harmony We see the dissonance all the time. Organizations struggle to get their IT and accounting teams working together and IT’s desire to introduce cloud computing to the mix can often strike a flat note. Fortunately, harmony can be achieved in just three simple steps. On its face, “moving to the cloud” seems like a simple enough term. Yet, as we will see, the term “cloud” carries a lot of meanings.… Blog February 12, 2020 5G Download What is 5G and what does it mean to consumers? To be quite clear, the term 5G is simply a marketing term to represent the fifth-generation of wireless technology used in cellular networks. However, the various cellular providers have created a fair bit of confusion about what 5G is, when it is… Blog February 14, 2020 Planning Makes the SAP S/4HANA Journey Compliant and Secure “Data is the new water.” That observation by a chief information officer we met a few months ago really nails the way we think about data security and compliance today. He went on to say, “We have to reserve it. Preserve it. Share it. And make sure it’s clean.” Innovations in cloud, mobile, social media and big data mean the opportunity for increased risk. And that increased risk means that data… Blog February 17, 2020 Migrating Security in Oracle ERP Cloud As security and Segregation of Duties (SoD) risks are becoming more scrutinized by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCOAB) and external auditors, it is increasingly important to establish a clean and compliant security role design in your Oracle ERP Cloud application. Whether you develop custom roles as part of your implementation or redesign security in your existing environment,… Blog March 2, 2020 Upgrading to GRC 12: A Race Against Time! It seems as if we are in a constant race against time to ensure our software stays within the mainstream maintenance window – most notable as of late is the sunsetting of SAP ERP (ECC) 6.0. While organizations may be at varying steps on their S/4HANA journey, we encourage them to not lose sight of their GRC application reaching the end of its mainstream maintenance December 31 of this year (… Load More
