http://spr.ly/SAP_GRC - A growing number of businesses are using centralized systems to fully examine and manage their risks, leading them to reduce unanticipated losses, lower costs, increase productivity and efficiency, and improve compliance. Shouldn’t your business be doing the same?

1. Know Your Risks, Nearly two-thirds of companies say they’re facing more and more complex risks
Respond Better
and manual processes to identify potential risks, which provide little insight into
using centralized systems to fully examine and manage their risks, leading them
and improve compliance. Shouldn’t your business be doing the same?
How important is risk management Does your business have a clear,
to your company? enterprise-wide view of its risk exposures?
66% More than half of survey respondents
said that not having integrated processes 53.7%
of executives
consider enterprise risk pieces of data together
management somewhat
or extremely important 81% and gain a clear view of the risks
see risk management’s
on an enterprise-wide basis 2
57.1%
importance growing. 1
Are your organization’s risk management Does your business assess risks
technologies up to the task? quantitatively or qualitatively?
For those that do
50% assess strategic risks,
most do so in a predominantly
of companies qualitative manner
are using outdated risk or by using a blend of qualitative
management solutions. 3 and quantitative techniques. 4
Is your risk management process What is your company doing
protecting you from surprises? to monitor its risks better?
2009 19.6%
68.1% 2012 37.9%
of organizations admit they
A growing number of organizations
an operational surprise are maintaining inventories of risks
5
at the enterprise level. 6
Is your business ready to Is your company ready for an integrated,
decrease risk and increase productivity? enterprise-wide solution for risk management?
60%
of respondents indicated
that integrating processes
reduced gaps in risk and
90%
compliance procedures of the time those companies
engaged in integrating governance,
risk, and compliance, results
have met or exceeded expectations.8
42%
said that it reduced
redundant activities. 7
Reduce loss and improve business value with the Sources
SAP® Risk Management Application. Fact 1: SAPinsider Research into 220 SAP Clients
Fact 2: OCEG 2012 Maturity Survey. http://hello.occg.org/grc maturity survey 2012
www.sap.com/grc Fact 3: SAPinsider Research into 220 SAP Clients
Fact 4, 5, 6: “Current State of Enterprise Risk Oversight: Progress is Occuring but Opportunities for Improvement Remain,”
by Beasley Branson, and Hancock, July 2012, AICPA/NC State ERM Initiative.)
Fact 7, 8: OCEG 2012 Maturity Survey. http://hello.occg.org/grc maturity survey 2012
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