Companies must detect opportunities and control business risks based on significant events that occur anywhere in their extended enterprise or extended business network. Typical business solutions provide little insight into key IT assets and no reach into the extended enterprise of suppliers, customers, partners, and others to proactively detect business opportunities and control risks. Businesses require solutions that reach deeply into the organization's infrastructure while overseeing the activities of the ecosystem surrounding the organization.

Proactively Detect and Manage Risk Events Across the Extended Enterprise Network

GRC composite applications by SAP and Cisco allow you to control and proactively address risk event issues across the network, in context of business processes. This gives companies the unparalleled transparency and visibility they need to adapt quickly to compliance requirements changes, as well as act on new business opportunities across the extended enterprise using SAP GRC applications and Cisco SONA. Cisco SONA collects, normalizes, analyzes, and presents business and IT events in an appropriate business context through SAP GRC applications across organizations and geographies.

GRC composite applications by SAP and Cisco enable you to achieve:

• Reduced risks from extended enterprise – Set up controls that reach from the organization to the extended enterprise. Cisco SONA monitors and controls all networked devices to provide real-time notification, escalation, and enforcement according to business and IT rules. With SAP GRC applications, all relevant activities across the entire network are collected and filtered within the business context appropriate to that organization.
• Proactive risk issue management – Identify and address risk areas to proactively manage event issues and quickly adapt to compliance requirements changes. Gain visibility to activities across the network before they formally enter a business application. The central GRC Repository and enforcement engines execute policies and decisions through the network, such as shutting down specific connections, data paths, and application access.
• Quick action on business opportunities – With integrated Cisco SONA capabilities, act on new business opportunities while saving time, costs, and resources to implement and maintain GRC across the extended enterprise. Grow revenues with the increased visibility that GRC composite applications by SAP and Cisco can provide. You can also increase organizational efficiency because the composite applications are designed to work with existing systems, applications, and devices. The applications can be applied to the business unit, geographical location, or business process that best serves current strategic needs.