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May 2018
Auditors and analysts recommend Segregation of Duties (SoD) controls as the most effective way to reduce the risk of internal fraud, and to comply with SOX, all public companies are required to implement them. But implementing SoD controls in Oracle E-Business Suite can be a very costly and time-consuming exercise, and the results are often prone to error and lead to audit deficiencies. To manage SoD efficiently you need: • Detective controls to identify existing SoD violations • Risk-based classification…
Find out more »Look out for Mike Hoskin with Q Software at this May's GLOC at Cleveland Public Auditorium! Join more than 400 Oracle Users at the 2018 Great Lakes Oracle Conference, the largest Oracle training event in the Midwest providing expert-led training for functional and technical users. The Northeast Ohio Oracle Users Group (NEOOUG) collaborates with the Northern Ohio Oracle Applications User Group (NOOAUG) to host this annual knowledge-packed educational and networking conference.
Find out more »Don’t get stung by the Oracle License Audit team! If you’ve had the call from the Oracle License Audit team, you may already know how big the bill can be. QCloud License Audit is a simple solution to help you stay compliant with your Oracle ERP system and Database Licensing. Run regular license audits to check your usage and highlight any areas of non-compliance. The results will be available within hours. With no technical effort needed, this service makes it…
Find out more »The Gulf Region OAUG (includes Alabama, the Caribbean, Florida and Mississippi) is a geographic user group dedicated to increasing its members' knowledge and understanding of Oracle application products. Our mission is to improve the success of the Gulf Region Oracle community through a unique support group composed of professionals and experts who share ideas, solutions, and experiences related to the selection, implementation, and on-going maintenance of Oracle applications. The Gulf Region is a perfect venue to collaborate with your peers.…
Find out more »Keep your security clean & tight in Oracle E-Business Suite. You invest time and money in straightening out your responsibilities, and you take a SoD model from the Internet and store it in a spreadsheet. But 6 months later when the auditor comes in, he tells you that you have 150 violations of common risks. It could be that you hired a new system administrator who decided to create more responsibilities and menus, not realizing that this created new SoD…
Find out more »June 2018
There are various reasons you might audit your ERP security system: auditor pressure, compliance reporting, or simply because you realize that 50% of frauds are committed by insiders. But it’s hard to get meaningful insights. Most companies use SQL scripts and complex spreadsheets, but find it very difficult to get accurate, actionable information. QCloud Audit as a Service solves this problem. It’s a Cloud-based service that reports on Segregation of Duties issues, Access visibility, and Critical Program availability, with metrics…
Find out more »Q Software's Steve Davis will be attending appsconnected 2018, "the ultimate opportunity to find answers, gain new insights and get in touch with like-minded users and Oracle experts." We'll be discussing how our software can address critical issues surrounding security and audit on your Oracle E-Business Suite and JD Edwards systems. We look forward to welcoming you to the event!
Find out more »Conducting Periodic Access Reviews can be an extremely arduous and painful process. It can swallow up a lot of technical effort to produce complex (and often inaccurate) access reports, and then Business Managers have to wade through reams of unintelligible data while trying to work out what it means and whether they ought to sign off on it. Our Periodic Review model automates and simplifies the process; it works on your live security tables, so however you manage your security,…
Find out more »Do you know if someone is committing fraudulent actions on your ERP system? Wouldn't you like to be notified if suspicious changes were to occur? Most ERP system users set up controls such as Segregation of Duties (SoD), and impose policies like “least privilege” access. These are the gatekeepers. But they can be difficult to enforce when the SoD controls aren’t integrated into EBS, and keeping a spreadsheet in synch with the system is problematic. Can you be sure that…
Find out more »There are various reasons you might audit your ERP security system: auditor pressure, compliance reporting, or simply because you realize that 50% of frauds are committed by insiders. All ERP users know how difficult it is to get sensible information on access and Segregation of Duties without endless hours of work. The other nightmare is being caught out by the Oracle license audit team. Most users simply do not know how many users they have accessing different modules, and whether…
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