Novell, Inc. partners with Logica for bringing combined governance, risk and compliance offering with SAP
Novell, Inc. and Logica Management Consulting, the consulting arm of leading IT and business services company, Logica, today announced their partnership for bringing a combined governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) offering with SAP to the market. The partnership, announced at the SAP GRC 2009 Conference this week, enables Logica, to provide an enterprise-wide risk management approach. Both Novell and Logica are SAP-certified partners.
Regulatory requirements and financial market pressures increase with firms’ necessity of transparency about risk management. Today, the IT infrastructure is a mass of incompatible systems with unique risk controls and policies, making compliance and risk management complex, time-consuming and costly. To address this issue, Novell, SAP and Logica are collaborating on the integration of GRC solutions that deliver the following:
- Performance - by improving predictability and automating and enforcing common controls while providing transparency to business processes across the enterprise
- Assurance - by lowering overall risk and increasing external and internal compliance
- Simplification - by eliminating resource silos and inefficiencies and by automating the process of discovering and remediating high-risk business problems
Logica helps clients to implement three main modules of SAP GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) - Access Control, Process Control and Risk Management. Logica is the first worldwide partner of SAP on SAP GRC solution, except for external auditors. These SAP modules enable companies to centralize information coming from applicative environments in order to bring in transparency on company-related risks. Integrating risk management and process control into information systems enables a centralized and transverse procedure, placing risk management at the heart of business processes. This systematic procedure will ensure real time monitoring of risks resulting in the ability to identify key risk indicators before an incident occurs.
Commenting on the partnership Markus J. Krauss, Vice President Identity & Security Management, Novell EMEA said "We are delighted to work closely with Logica on bringing a combined GRC offering for SAP customers to the market. This offering includes integrated governance, risk and compliance solutions to help bridge the gap between business processes and IT security and controls. Logica´s industry knowledge, technical excellence, delivery expertise and focus on evolving business as well as IT processes will ensure that our customers reduce risk, lower costs and improve their business performance by deploying these solutions. We are committed to maximize the leverage of our customer´s SAP investments.”
Sébastien Brasseur, Director, SAP GRC business lead at Logica, said “With Novell, we will ideally extend our end-to-end approach. Most of our clients are looking to integrate their access management and Identity Management solutions. In partnership with Novell, we will be able to provide a comprehensive enterprise-wide risk management approach and we look forward to bringing these benefits to our clients.”
About Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information, visit www.novell.com.
About Logica
Logica is a leading IT and business services company, employing 40,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business process outsourcing services. Logica works closely with its customers to release their potential - enabling change that increases their efficiency, accelerates growth and manages risk. It applies its deep industry knowledge, technical excellence and global delivery expertise to help its customers build leadership positions in their markets. Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More information is available at www.logica.com.
In the frame of Governance, Risk management and compliance, Logica is one of the leaders for SAP GRC implementation. More information is available at www.logica.com/grc or e-mail sap@logica.com
About Logica Management Consulting
Logica Management Consulting has a network of 3,000 consultants located throughout Europe. Logica's consultants help drive the success of clients’ transformation projects. They stand apart through their European culture, ability to work closely with customers, and unique blend of sector-based, functional and technological expertise. More information is available at www.logica.com/consulting
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