Item: SAP Process Control
Rating: 8
Author: Jayakrishna Moola

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The product is useful for doing a lot of automation to monitor risks and to save time on testing of controls. The product has a lot of adoption to happen to check on more controls, which can help every customer to help on monitoring the risks and monitor mitigation without manual monitoring involved.

Pros and Cons

Monitoring IT controls
Monitoring the mitigations applied against risks defined in systems
Automatic monitoring of many IT and business controls will help save time and money for internal auditors and also assert more confidence in controls defined in the landscape

Default delivery of controls could be done by SAP on some basic controls like client openings, password controls, etc
The messaging or customization of messages in different workflows is limited, which could be introduced to enhance the product
SAP Process control does not have the capability for cloud product monitoring which is required with more SAP cloud products available right now

Return on Investment

Significant control on risks
Significant savings on audit testing can be achieved
Automation of risk management has a lot of audit standardization and confidence in compliance
Reliability of automated controls reduces time vested in testing the standard controls

Alternatives Considered

SAP Process Control is more integrated into SAP products which reduces customization, unlike other products like access violation management from greenlight. Other products like sailpoint are available in products to monitor similar functionality but are to be more customized to suit to work like SAP Process Control, which makes other products more costly to maintain in long run.

Key Insights

Do you think SAP Process Control delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SAP Process Control's feature set?

Yes

Did SAP Process Control live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of SAP Process Control go as expected?

Would you buy SAP Process Control again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

It’s appropriate to monitor any IT-related controls which have tables where the data resides. It is very tough to integrate new-age products from SAP like Ariba or Concur, which are cloud instances that need to be enhanced for the broader cloud integration.

SAP Process Control helps us have more reliance on automatic monitoring of standard it controls

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Process Control