ControlPanelGRC Companion Suite

Go Beyond Segregation of Duties to Achieve Full Control of Your SAP^® Environment

Complement and Enhance your Core GRC solution

ControlPanelGRC Companion Suite is a second generation solution that provides the additional tools you need to achieve complete control of your SAP environment. The next generation, modular applications complement and enhance any existing Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) solution by providing:

SOX compliant automation of Transport management
SOX compliant accelerators for security testing
Time saving tools for security troubleshooting
Improved Risk remediation with real-time notification of executed Sensitive Transactions
Significant savings on licensing, upgrade planning and training based on real system usage data at the User, Transaction and license level
Automated reporting with workflows to ensure reports are being reviewed and risks mitigated
Easy to understand dashboards giving a “state in time” view of compliance issues in your system

Reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of your GRC Solution

Implementing a GRC solution is a costly undertaking for any organization. As well as the initial implementation costs and ongoing maintenance fees, the time and effort your team invests in maintaining compliance represents a large part of the total cost of ownership of your GRC solution and your SAP environment as a whole.

ControlPanelGRC Companion Suite helps you reduce the total cost of ownership of your GRC solution with:

Workflows that accelerate daily tasks and ensure compliance is embedded into your process
Time saving security troubleshooting tools
Value added tools designed to help you utilize system information, plan strategically and save on costs

Embed Compliance into your Organization’s Daily Routine

The security team is traditionally responsible for ensuring that other members of your organization are following and reviewing compliance related procedures and reports. ControlPanelGRC Companion Suite embeds compliance into the daily activities of technical teams, functional teams, End Users and business process owners with customizable workflows, proactive monitoring and tracked review.

ControlPanelGRC Companion Suite Modules

ControlPanelGRC Transport Manager

ControlPanelGRC Transport Manager provides a more secure and controlled environment by enforcing your change management policy through an embedded process. ControlPanelGRC Transport Manager reduces the burden of change management on IT by automating the change management process via a workflow that maintains an audit trail and ensures compliance throughout the testing, approval and migration phases.

ControlPanelGRC Security Troubleshooter

The days of emailing SU53 screen shots backwards and forwards between the Security Team and End User are over. ControlPanelGRC Security Troubleshooter dramatically simplifies and accelerates the security troubleshooting process by providing your team with all of the information they need to recreate and resolve an issue. This includes:

A record of transactions
Messages received by the User
The User’s current Role assignment
A listing of Roles (containing the needed Transaction) that the User could be assigned to resolve the issue

ControlPanelGRC Security Quality Assurance

Testing critical transactions in Roles has always been tedious process involving input from Security and Functional teams. ControlPanelGRC Security Quality Assurance provides both acceleration and facilitation of the Security Testing process. The tool:

Enables automated testing during the Role generation process
Manages the process of linking Roles to a test logon
Provides an interface for Role Owners to easily test Authorizations without having to enter different logons and passwords
Integrates with ControlPanelGRC Usage Analyzer to determine number of Transaction executions for each logon and display a “testing completeness” calculation for auditors

ControlPanelGRC Usage Analyzer

ControlPanelGRC Usage Analyzer builds on the information provided by your GRC solution to help remediate compliance risks. The module utilizes real system usage data (at the User, User Group, License and Transaction level), giving Internal Audit and IT the ability to remediate compliance risks or re-architect your security model based on transactions actually executed by Users during a given period. Integration with ControlPanelGRC AutoAuditor allows for real-time notification of executed sensitive transactions.

As well as assisting in remediation ControlPanelGRC Usage Analyzer can help to streamline business processes, and save time and money by properly scoping upgrades or planning training.

ControlPanelGRC Usage Analyzer: License Optimizer

Redistribution of licenses between Users can create significant savings on new licensing costs. The Summary Usage Data provided by Usage Analyzer includes system usage information for a rolling year and provides license type classification suggestions. These can help differentiate between heavy Users and those whose license types could be downgraded. ControlPanelGRC Usage Analyzer reports can also help with license budgeting by providing information on the number of Users at a given location or in a department.

ControlPanelGRC AutoAuditor

While most GRC solutions provide some form of detective mitigating control through a reporting functionality, ControlPanelGRC AutoAuditor takes this one step further, by providing proactive mitigating controls and extra information to supplement your GRC solution. ControlPanelGRC AutoAuditor helps your organization maintain compliance effortlessly, and reduces the cost of preparing for an audit, by automating the execution, delivery and validation tracking of predefined or custom reports.