The SAP BusinessObjects Process Control application provides continuous control monitoring across policies and regulatory requirements. You can leverage unified, cross-system visibility to enable efficient management of multiple initiatives – and gain increased confidence in your decision making.

With this application, you can realize the following benefits:

• Continuous visibility across compliance initiatives
  • Integrated view of multiple compliance initiatives via a single repository or system of record can enable a greater understanding of control effectiveness and remediation of key issues.
  • Transparency across SAP and non-SAP systems can offer a complete view of control activity and issue status.
  • Increased cross-function accountability and standardization can enable review, certification, and signoff of processes to be enforced across the organization.
  • Actionable intelligence across key regulations and policies can improve decision making.
  • Comprehensive reports and dashboards can help you monitor control effectiveness across systems.
• Increased compliance efficiency
  • Optimizing compliance activities can help you lower operating costs and allow you to transform manual and disconnected control activities into automated and streamlined processes.
  • Faster and simpler deployment and reduced maintenance across complex environments via an automated rules framework can allow you to accelerate the setup and deployment of new and delivered configurable controls and rules – and can help you reduce the number of controls you need to maintain.
  • Manual control tests and automatically created remediation cases are routed to appropriate personnel, helping you increase control process accuracy.
  • Automated workflows and notifications can enable shorter audit cycles and reduced staff needs – helping you lower compliance costs.
• Greater confidence
  • Unified control management across the enterprise can permit increased agility, ensure audit integrity, and accelerate your ability to respond to irregularities and changing business needs.
  • Your executives can gain greater confidence in operations and reporting results.
  • You can reduce fraud-related costs and compliance exposure and increase early detection via continuous cross-system monitoring.
  • Workflow-driven issue identification and remediation can empower you to resolve exceptions more effectively.