Two important principles guiding Sarbanes-Oxley compliance in IT are the separation of duties and least privilege. In the SAP environment, both these principles are easier to put in place by giving business users control of their own data – allowing them to carry out mass data creation, mass data updates, and repetitive reporting tasks themselves.

This white paper describes some easy-to-use data management tools that many companies are using to let business users do complex data updates and reporting tasks effortlessly. This technology is not only easing their Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but is also saving these companies large amounts of time and money.