SAP news from FierceComplianceIT

There was a day when small software companies lived in abject fear of Microsoft. Many fretted that it was only a matter of time before the software giant built whatever functionality it created into... Read more...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued some guidance recently on so-called bundled products and how revenue from such products are realized. This isn't a problem of Y2K proportions,... Read more...

Compliance Week offers an interesting look at two companies' paths to a GRC solution. In both cases, the decision gave weight to the existing ERP platforms and the need to continue to run customized... Read more...

Lots of banks are facing the need to enhance their GRC efforts (corporate governance news) and converge them with their other BPM processes. Every bank will have a different experience, and there are... Read more...

We've seen lots of partnerships emerge in the GRC industry. It would be nice to think that some day all solutions would interoperate with all others, but that will never happen. Still, to achieve a... Read more...

BusinessFinance makes an interesting point about GRC solutions vendors: Their sales pitches all sounds the same. You need to automate, you need to integrate, and on and on. SAP's pitch brings a novel... Read more...

The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, as currently proposed, would require companies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions over time , starting in 2012. This is a seismic event for... Read more...

Like other big ERP players, SAP continues to add GRC functionality to its core offerings. The latest: It has released a couple of new applications that are aimed squarely at core GRC functions. They... Read more...

The goal of AS5 was to streamline 404 compliance and generally reduce the imperative to test everything under the sun when it comes to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. The third annual survey looking at... Read more...

We've noted elsewhere that GRC solutions vendors approach the market from different perspectives. The big boys, like Oracle and SAP, aim to leverage their massive installed based. Other vendors come... Read more...