Are You in Denial About Governance, Risk, and Compliance?

In a previous post, I talked about the “illusory superiority” effect, and how it blinds people to the fact that, on average, it’s unlikely that they use data better than their competitors. Guess what? It turns out that it applies to governance, risk, and compliance, too. Here are some figures from another Economist Intelligence Unit Survey, “Ascending the Maturity Curve, Effective Management of Enterprise Risk and Compliance”: We can see... [Read More...]

Some Fun SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, GRC, and EPM Videos

From SAP Asia’s YouTube Channel, here are a series of humorous, well-produced videos on various SAP BusinessObjects solutions – enjoy! Many of these are perfect for sharing with your business teams – don’t hesitate! Governance, Risk and Compliance IT and Finance: “We both work for the same company… so why is there so much tension”? Product information about SAP GRC BusinessObjects Explorer for Finance: “I got the voice message... [Read More...]

A Big Cryptographic Boost for On-Demand BI and Extranets?

A recent cryptographic breakthrough made by Craig Gentry that potentially has huge consequences for business intelligence. One of the big problems plaguing the use of on-demand business intelligence has been concerns over data security. As Forbes and others have reported, the new techniques could reassure companies who want to take benefit of cloud computing for analysis (at a cost of massive computing power). As IBM Research VP Charles Lickel notes... [Read More...]