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Case study Energy & utilities

How a company with over $1 billion in revenue chose SafePaaS to reduce audit fees related to ERP upgrade

An energy company transporting and storing natural gas across state lines needed security and controls designed into its Oracle E-Business Suite R12 implementation, rather than retrofitted after go-live.

40% lowerinternal and external audit costs related to security
100% removedpost-implementation remediation and rework
80% lowerconfiguration change management effort
IndustryEnergy & utilities
RegionTexas, United States
SizeInterstate transportation and storage of natural gas
Primary ERPOracle E-Business Suite R12

Challenges

  • Design in, rather than retrofit, security and controls as part of the R12 implementation
  • Ensure segregation-of-duties and configuration issues do not become a material weakness or a bottleneck at go-live
  • Mitigate risk through embedded real-time enforcement and prevention
  • Build better, more compliant roles
  • Ensure consistency of application configurations during implementation and after go-live
  • Automate and error-proof the setup and documentation of BR100 configurations

Results

  • Internal and external audit costs related to security reduced 40%
  • Help-desk resource needed to provision security resets reduced 28%
  • Post-implementation remediation and rework reduced 100%
  • Configuration change management effort reduced 80%
  • Time spent testing authorisation manager approvals reduced 75%
  • Consultant fees for form and workflow customisation reduced 60%
  • Time spent on SOX segregation-of-duties testing reduced 55%
  • Efficiency of profile management practices improved 40%
  • Time spent on management review of access and manual SoD grids reduced 40%
  • Time spent on design, build and test for compliant security roles reduced 20%

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What this story shows

  • Audit costs related to security fell 40% by designing controls in rather than retrofitting them
  • Post-implementation remediation and rework was eliminated entirely
  • SOX SoD testing time fell 55% and manual SoD grid review fell 40%