About Us Solutions Services News & Events Customers Contact Overview Bluegold Customers Case Study: Large U.S. Chemical Company Chemical Company is a worldwide leader in the manufacturing and marketing of phosphates and phosphorus chemicals. In order to automate the review of Segregation of Duties and User Access, Chemical Company engaged Bluegold to accelerate the successful implementation of SAP BusinessObjects™ Access Control 5.3. Customer Challenges Periodic review of User Access and Segregation of Duties issues is a major undertaking for any large company working towards SOX compliance. With plants spread across North America and Latin America, this was a cumbersome and time-consuming manual exercise that recurred every year for the Chemical Company. The customer was looking for an automated system that would enable business users to collaborate with their internal controls team and IT to review SoD issues and User Access. Bluegold Solution Chemical Company engaged Bluegold to help design and implement a solution. Bluegold worked with key stakeholders, including business process owners, IT, and Finance, to understand their requirements and designed new processes based on the capabilities of SAP GRC Access Control 5.3. Bluegold's proven methodology, tools, best practices and deep domain knowledge enabled Chemical Company to implement SAP GRC Access Control with go-live in less than three months. Results and Benefits Partnering with Bluegold enabled Chemical Company to: Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its GRC business processes Meet aggressive audit deadlines Establish an automated system to reduce the cost of compliance Train users on the organization’s GRC product and technology Establish a knowledge base for superior ongoing administration and support Case Study: Global Semi-Conductor Manufacturer Semi-Conductor Manufacturer is a global leader in the semi-conductor industry with headquarters in United States. To automate previously manual, risk-prone processes, the company engaged Bluegold oversee its upgrade to Access Control 5.3 and to design and implement a process that would enforce compliance automatically when users are provisioned to the central CUA system. Customer Challenges Managing tens of thousands of users across enterprise systems can be a challenging and time-consuming task. Semi-Conductor Manufacturer was using the Central User Administration (CUA) tool to manage its users across the SAP system landscapes. SAP GRC Access Control 5.2 was used to manage Segregation of Duties and to automate the access approval process. When users requested global CUA roles, checking for Segregation of Duties issues during access approval was particularly difficult. Semi-Conductor Manufacturer implemented a manual solution for this critical step, but it was less than ideal. Bluegold Solution Based on our extensive knowledge of SAP GRC Access Control and SAP Security, we redesigned the user provisioning process and modeled a new process that enforces compliance when users request access; our solution also only provisions access to the central CUA system. This approach was based on the new capabilities of SAP GRC Access Control 5.3. Results and Benefits Partnering with Bluegold enabled the customer to: Automate the compliance check during user provisioning Use CUA system to be the primary system for provisioning Establish an automated system to reduce the cost of compliance Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the GRC business processes Got a GRC Challenge? Contact Us! If you’re facing a difficult GRC problem, or simply want to get more out of your existing program, please contact us. Our GRC experts will be glad to talk about your business objectives and technical issues, and how Bluegold can help you. "Bluegold has been an invaluable asset in our implementation of SAP BusinessObjects™ Access Control. As you would expect from one of the software's original architects, they bring a level of product expertise that's unmatched." Heraleen Bowers ICL Performance Products Home | About | Solutions | Services | News & Events | Customers | Privacy | Contact | Copyright © 2009 Bluegold | 43207 Sabercat Place, Fremont, CA 94539 | (510) 490-9300