Robert Kugel's Analyst Perspectives

SunGard IntelliMatch: Financial Governance and Reconciliations

Posted by Ventana Research on 25 March 2011

Back-office operations in commercial and investment banks are among those critical functions that are underappreciated until they stop working well. This includes transaction reconciliations and the related exceptions management. Reconciliations are necessary to achieve a reasonable assurance of complete and accurate record of trading activity. The process is especially challenging now, partly because of today’s high and growing volumes in the wide range of asset classes in which all larger...

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Topics: GRC, Office of Finance, Operational Performance Management (OPM), Financial Governance, Reconciliation, Sungard, Analytics, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Performance Management (BPM), CFO, Financial Performance Management (FPM), Information Management (IM), Corporate Governance, Governance Risk and Compliance

SAP Solidifies Software Category with SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0

Posted by Robert Kugel on 18 March 2011

When the term “governance, risk and compliance” (GRC) was introduced almost 10 years ago, software for this purpose was not a real category but a loose grouping of disparate applications that had something to do with meeting the requirements of the recently passed Sarbanes-Oxley Act. (You can find my perspective on the GRC category from a couple of years ago here. Now, with the release 10.0 of SAP BusinessObjects GRC, SAP is taking another step toward making the software category a real,...

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Topics: SAP, GRC, Office of Finance, Operational Performance Management (OPM), Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Performance Management (BPM), CFO, Financial Performance Management (FPM), Information Management (IM), IT Performance Management (ITPM), Corporate Governance, Governance Risk and Compliance

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