As businesses move away from single ERP systems supporting key processes to multiple best-of-breed applications to maximize business performance, the ability to identify segregation of duties risk across the whole enterprise becomes increasingly more important. 

Businesses today are running both on-premise and cloud applications as well as multiple systems, all of which are interconnected making it a real challenge to achieve complete visibility into risk. IT landscapes are becoming more challenging and complex, hybrid work models becoming more prominent as well as the addition of cloud applications that organizations are buying like hotcakes! The need for a holistic view of risk across the entire enterprise is paramount.

It is not unusual, especially in large enterprise customers, to find sets of data in different ERPs. For example, supplier master data may be stored in one ERP such as Oracle e-Business Suite, or ERP Cloud and transaction data in another such as Workday. Many organizations run their business on many applications, sometimes even hundreds making it a real challenge to mitigate risk effectively and provide assurance to external auditors, management and stakeholders.

Segregation of duties is where most organisations struggle – it’s quite often the weakest area. This is mainly due to complex ERP security models, roles and responsibilities not being well defined as well as a lack of internal knowledge.  

Organizations must ensure that employees are given the right amount of access they need to carry out their job without jeopardizing security and compliance. 

Solutions, such as SafePaaS, that provide the ability to view risk across multiple ERP systems and applications, make it easier for enterprises to focus on what really matters and achieve peace of mind that their business-critical applications are safeguarded.