Oracle Segregation of Duties (SOD) Management

Many Oracle EBS IT shops struggle managing Segregation of Duties (SOD) within their EBS system. There are various reasons for this which may include:

• complex software which requires internal IT resources mediating between the software and end users who are responsible for maintaining SOD polices thus increasing IT cost
• expensive software which provides more functionality than needed for day-to-day SOD compliance
• cumbersome manual processes meant to avoid the cost associated with complex expensive software but which increases the workload on all involved in maintaining SOD policies
• custom menu solutions which are too cumbersome to keep up with a fast-changing business environment

In addition many organizations have grown complacent around enforcing SOD compliance unless it is flagged by external/internal auditors. It becomes a cost to be minimized versus a process that can make the business more resilient against turbulent business conditions. It is as if common wisdom is “no one has gone to jail so why worry about it.” Which is true until it isn’t true.

OneGlobe, who has a long history in Oracle EBS and SOD, has developed ERP SoD. ERP SoD is a SaaS solution which is cost-effective software service to help compliance end users manage their SOD process with no support required from IT except initial connection to the organizations EBS instance. The Features of ERP SoD are shown below.

Our cloud solution integrates easily with your EBS instance and doesn’t require any additional hardware or software investments. It comes with a set of best practice SOD policies but users can load their own or modify the existing ones. Loading SOD policies is as easy as uploading an excel spreadsheet. The solution works in either detection or preventive mode. It also has approval workflows which can be customized to your specific approval process. It also will automatically provision approved responsibilities into your EBS instance cutting down on without manual intervention by IT. A high-level view of the workflow process is shown below.

Our cloud solution is secure and provides an audit trail of all changes made to it. It provides user friendly dashboards for compliance users and standard reports usually required by auditors or compliance users. An example of the dashboards and reports are shown below.

A high-level view of the ERP SoD architecture is shown below.

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