11.Feb.2012 at 11 | Selva Kumar
Quick way of logging all the SAP Transactions for SAP Audit Compliance
In the standard SAP System, broad ranges of options are available for logging user activities and changes made to the SAP system. Companies must use them selectively to record the required data explicitly, and at the same time to facilitate their well-organized assessment and utilization. When company logs user activities here are the six benefits to the company for compliance with SAP IT Audit, increasing productivity and saving money.
SAP has lot of sensitive payment/approval and mass change transactions which could have financial implications or data loss from the system. So these transactions should only be given to limited number of users and should also be monitored who has access them on a regular basis. This will help the sap audit team to track the usage by approved users.
When company applies patches to the system there needs to be testing done to make sure the existing transaction are working properly. If the transactions are tracked, then some of the heavily used transactions could be tested. This could provide great value to the company by saving time and money as the testing team can focus on core transactions which are used heavily.
The training is based on the roles and transaction assigned to them. With the transaction tracking turned on the company can get a list of transactions which are heavily used and list of transaction which are very lightly used. Then the training co-coordinators can focus on the transaction which are heavily used and switch the training to compute based training for some of the lightly used transactions. This will save training budget for the company
SAP Classifies user based on the type of transaction they perform in the system. If they perform change transactions they are classified as operational users, whereas if they are just using display transactions they can be classified as informational users. The cost of the licensing fees can be reduced if you can identify users who are just performing display transactions in the system.
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