It's now more important than ever before to ensure predictable, reliable finances and operations. Organization need to provide evidence that they can remain in compliance with regulations or policies, that the proper controls are in place and that they can mitigate any critical risk before their business performance or compliance status is jeopardized. Managing a broad spectrum of risk, including financial, operational, environmental, and social risks, business are looking for cost-effective ways to comply with regulatory mandates, align actions with corporate initiatives, and protect asset values. Failing to accomplish this will only result in regulatory action, financial loss, poor credit rating, and, worse yet, loss of shareholder confidence.

SAP and our partners provide software and services to help you evaluate and manage governance, risk, and compliance at every level of the organization – enabling you to minimize impact of unplanned risk, reduce cost of compliance, ensure cash flows and asset value, and evaluate risks associated with new business opportunities.

With SAP BusinessObjects software and services, we can help you:

• Create value through strategy and risk
• Benefit from risk-based compliance management
• Manage global trade risk and compliance
• Better protect your organization against fraud
• Enable sound, enterprise-wide financial controls

Software and Services for Managing Risk and Compliance

SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance solutions can help you maximize strategic and operational performance by cost-effectively managing regulations and policies, while proactively mitigating all types of business risk.

With a common governance, risk, and compliance framework in place, you can dramatically increase efficiencies by unifying business processes, risk management, and compliance initiatives. This unification increases visibility into whether your business processes are helping your company follow internal policies, corporate strategy and win.

SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions can also help you better manage and reduce operational costs across your risk management and compliance processes. Automating key controls and building a repeatable and scalable framework for risk and compliance enables you to leverage your processes to comply with any regulatory requirement, while becoming more cost-efficient and productive in how these processes are managed.

More importantly, SAP BusinessObjects provides a framework that can help you manage your information in a more predictable and proactive manner, allowing you to see "data" in the context of "information." By having more predictable and trustworthy information to monitor risk and compliance, you can optimize your strategic and operational performance within your business unit, throughout your organization, and across your industry.

To help you map an effective governance, risk, and compliance implementation plan, SAP Services and consulting partners provide guidance on how best to leverage your current or future SAP BusinessObjects investments to manage risk and compliance. Our services help you streamline auditing processes, improve internal controls, and perform enterprise risk management – providing a road map to drive greater performance across company operating units.

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Balance opportunities with risk exposure (PDF).

Prioritize risks and focus controls on key risk areas (PDF).

Streamline compliance (PDF).

Protect information and prevent fraud (PDF).

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