Segregation of duties (SoD) is a powerful approach to managing risk in business processes. By requiring that certain activities be performed by different people, conflicts of interest can be avoided and oversight is improved.

IDEAS SoD allows businesses to define conflicting business activities. As users are granted permissions, IDEAS warns managers whenever SoD conflicts arise.

SoD Risk Remediation

SoD policies define how to handle conflicts. Sometimes it is preferable to monitor and manage a conflict, rather than prohibit it. According to a company's SoD policy, IDEAS may allow a manager to temporarily authorize conflicting activities. Conflicts can also automatically trigger notifications, escalation, enhanced monitoring, or prescribed risk remediation measures.

SoD for SAP

SAP, with its own proprietary role and authorization model, is a special case and a particularly important target for SoD policy enforcement. IDEAS provides native support for the SAP role and authorization framework, and can apply a single set of SoD definitions to both SAP and non-SAP applications.

Key Benefits:

• Reduce the risk of fraud, conflicts of interest and human error in business processes
• Improve process structure to increase oversight and audit-ability.
• Manage SoD policies at a single point and enforce these across the whole enterprise, including SAP targets

Related Products:

• IDEAS RPD
• IDEAS Compliance Control for SAP - CCS