Five Ways Avantra Makes SAP More Secure

Five Ways Avantra Makes SAP More Secure

Avantra secures SAP operations across five practitioner-level control areas: patch and HotNews monitoring, configuration drift detection, backup and restore, segregation of duties, and user deprovisioning. Each maps directly to a SOX IT general control objective,...
What Is an SAP System? A Plain-English Explanation

What Is an SAP System? A Plain-English Explanation

An SAP system is an installed instance of SAP’s business software that runs an organization’s core processes, like finance, supply chain, and HR, on a single, shared database. If you’re new to a company that runs on SAP, this guide explains what that...
SAP System Refresh: Step-by-Step Process and Checklist

SAP System Refresh: Step-by-Step Process and Checklist

A system refresh in SAP is the process of copying data, most often from Production, into a QA or test system so that testing happens against realistic, current data. Manually, it’s one of the most time-consuming recurring tasks a Basis team owns. Before...