Financial Management Blogs by SAP

Out-of-the-box integration for credit card payments in S/4HANA

This blog describes how SAP digital payments add-on can simplify the connection between business applications in S/4HANA and payment service providers Enterprises doing business globally via various selling channels and with changing business models...

GRC Tuesdays: What Risks to Look Out for in 2024

If you have been following these GRC Tuesdays blog, then you might have noticed that this is the fourth year that we release a blog on “What Risks to Look Out for in [current year]”. This year again, I decided to use the very same format so that th...

GRC Tuesdays: All I Want for Christmas is Cyber Safety

Do you know what happened in 2016? So many great things! Netflix added offline downloads, a leading environmental group reclassified giant pandas as a “vulnerable” species rather than “endangered” one… and we released the very first GRC Tuesdays C...

Driving Sustainable Growth: The Role of Green Public Finance Management Part 2: Unveiling the Public Sector's Role and IPSASB Sustainable Budget Reporting

This blog serves as a continuation of a blog series on Green Public Finance Management. After describing the concept and the key factors of Green PFM in the first post of the series, this second part takes a focused look at the responsibilities shoul...

The Reasons to Move to Cloud or Stay On Premise Are the Same - That Makes No Sense To Me

AI generated image of a frustrated man surrounded by clouds and on-premise servers This week I saw an interesting data point in a ComputerWeekly article (CW) from the opening keynote at the start of the UK and Ireland SAP User Group’s Connect23 annu...

Cloud Guardrails: Effectively Making Your Cloud Accounts Secure-by-Default

AI-generated image of a highway with guardrails running through the clouds Our Most Effective Security Controls One of the most powerful security controls we have in place at SAP are our cloud guardrails, or preventive controls applied to our publi...

TAC: Quote-to-Cash conference in Budapest

I had a great opportunity to attend Quote-to-Cash conference in Budapest organised by TAC Events, meet up with the leading industry experts, fellow customers and partners and present them SAP CPQ quoting capabilities integrated with S/4HANA and BRIM ...

Secure and Compliant Cloud Services to Increase Customer Trust Part 2: Introducing SAP’s New Chief Security Officer

AI generated image of two security executives in front of a background of clouds and technology This article is part two in a series introducing SAP's new security and compliance leadership. For part one, please see Secure and Compliant Cloud Servic...

Secure and Compliant Cloud Services to Increase Customer Trust: Introducing SAP's New Chief Security Compliance & Risk Officer

SAP has gone through a significant transformation in the last years. Despite cloud acquisitions before, SAP in 2018 was still primarily focused on on-premise software for its core solutions in the portfolio. 5 years later, SAP is in the top 5 of fas...

GRC Tuesdays: Governance, Risk, and Compliance & Security Augmenting RISE with SAP

Whether adopting a first Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software or migrating from an existing one to the Cloud, organizations can gain many advantages from a complete offering of cloud solutions, infrastructure, and services combined together t...

Navigating the Sustainability Revolution: SAP's Game-Changing Solution

In a world where sustainability is no longer a choice but a necessity, businesses must adapt swiftly to changing demands. SAP developed the SAP Sustainability Control Tower, a dynamic solution that blends financial and sustainability metrics to guide...

Skills and Qualities of Security Leaders. It's Not so Simple

AI generated image of a frustrated security officer in front of a landscape of different industries and offices We talk in cybersecurity about the skills and qualities that leaders such as Chief Security Officers (CSO) and Chief Information Security...

Summer SAP Cloud Security Articles You May Have Missed

We're coming to the end of the summer vacation period. I hope you had a great time and had an opportunity to recharge. Cloud security didn't stop, though, so here is a list of recent SAP cloud security articles published during this period that you ...

The Durian Model of Effective Cyber Resilience

Cybersecurity is a multi-dimensional problem that never ends. We dance between security risks, available budgets, talent shortages, and tooling. Cloud transformation only increases complexity by adding new technologies, greater developer independenc...

GRC Tuesdays: Internal Control is Not Only for Listed Companies

In most people’s minds, “internal control” is the set of policies and procedures designed to ensure reliable and accurate financial reporting. Based on this understanding, there is a misconception that internal control only applies to publicly trade...