SAP solutions help forward-leaning enterprises turn regulatory requirements into competitive advantage. For details about the benefits and capabilities of SAP solutions, access the following information:

Overviews

• "SAP Solutions for Governance, Risk, and Compliance" (PDF, 749 KB) – Learn how SAP solutions for governance, risk, and compliance (SAP solutions for GRC) embed and optimize all GRC activities to overcome the problems caused by business fragmentation and disjointed approaches to GRC management.
• "SAP Global Trade Services" (PDF, 840 KB) – Learn how SAP GRC Global Trade Services helps companies manage complexities of international trade, including proactive regulatory compliance and faster customs clearance, while improving competitiveness via the benefits of regional trade preference agreements.
• "SAP xApp Emissions Management" (PDF, 403 KB) – Examine how SAP xApp Emissions Management (SAP xEM) can help you monitor, measure, document, and control emissions output.
• "SAP ERP Financials" (PDF, 735 KB) – Discover how SAP ERP Financials improves all aspects of your vital financial management activities via adaptable tools and intuitively designed solutions that support analytics, governance, financial and management accounting, and financial supply chain management.

Solution Briefs

• "A Solution for Corporate Sustainability Management from SAP" (PDF, 95 KB) – Learn how SAP GRC Corporate Sustainability Management helps enterprises manage governance, risk, and compliance by promoting analysis and disclosure of corporate sustainability indicators to improve business performance and satisfy stakeholders.
• "Environmental Compliance Solutions" (PDF, 166 KB) – Discover how solutions from SAP and TechniData can help you simplify environmental compliance by expanding and integrating your ERP software to give you complete control of your environmental, health, and safety processes.
• "Managing U.S. Export Processes" (PDF, 192 KB) – Examine how SAP global trade services software can help ensure timely delivery to customers outside the United States by streamlining customs management and enhancing regulatory compliance, while helping you take advantage of international trade agreements.
• "SAP GRC Access Control" (PDF, 107 KB) – Discover the benefits of SAP GRC Access Control, a market-leading application for monitoring, testing, and enforcing access and authorization controls across the enterprise.
• "SAP GRC Process Control" (192 KB) – Discover how SAP GRC Process Control can protect the integrity of your business. The application integrates end-to-end GRC activities and streamlines business processes to reduce inefficiencies and prevent fraud and errors.

White Papers

• "An Integrated Approach to Managing Governance, Risk, and Compliance" (PDF, 225 KB) – Investigate how forward-thinking organizations are taking a broader, more integrated approach to managing interrelated strategic-planning activities and business risks by developing an integrated GRC program.
• "Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management: Realizing the Value of Cross-Enterprise Solutions" (PDF, 245 KB) – Explore current thinking about how technology can support GRC initiatives via a single cross-enterprise solution capable of providing a cohesive strategy for monitoring, identifying, and managing risk. Log-in required.
• "SAP NetWeaver: Providing the Building Blocks for Effective Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management" (PDF, 249 KB) – Learn how SAP NetWeaver can serve as a common foundation supporting governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) processes – helping you reduce fragmentation and avoid duplication of effort. Log-in required.
• "Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance in Procurement Contracts, Today and Tomorrow" (PDF, 146 KB) – Discover how companies are moving past obvious measures to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act by examining their supplier relationship management processes - viewing SOX as an opportunity to improve SRM processes. Log-in required.

Analyst Reports and Related Information

• "Governance, Risk, and Compliance: SAP and Virsa Move Toward Prime Time" (PDF, 82 KB) – Read IDC's analysis of SAP's acquisition of Virsa, formation of a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) unit, and vision for organizations that want a comprehensive approach to GRC. IDC (2006)
• "Technology Options to Support EH&S Compliance" (PDF, 423 KB) – Learn how various firms achieve the range of competencies necessary to support EH&S compliance and how SAP has differentiated it's EH&S competencies in the areas of employee training, tracking, and certification. AMR (2007)
• "Trust and Competitive Advantage: An Integrated Approach to Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance" (PDF, 279 KB) – Read about the current crisis of trust among corporate stakeholders and how an integrated GRC program reduces compliance costs, builds trust, and creates competitive advantage. New Paradigm (2006)