In the standard SAP System, broad ranges of options are available for logging user activities and changes made to the SAP system. Companies must use them selectively to record the required data explicitly, and at the same time to facilitate their well-organized assessment and utilization. When company logs user activities here are the six benefits to the company for compliance with SAP IT Audit, increasing productivity and saving money.
Tracking Sensitive Transactions
SAP has lot of sensitive payment/approval and mass change transactions which could have financial implications or data loss from the system. So these transactions should only be given to limited number of users and should also be monitored who has access them on a regular basis. This will help the sap audit team to track the usage by approved users.
Regression testing
When company applies patches to the system there needs to be testing done to make sure the existing transaction are working properly. If the transactions are tracked, then some of the heavily used transactions could be tested. This could provide great value to the company by saving time and money as the testing team can focus on core transactions which are used heavily.
Role Design
The transactions usage report could provide the SAP Audit team the transactions which are not being used in the system. Armed with this information the SAP Audit Team can recommend some of the transactions which could be removed from the roles.
Training
The training is based on the roles and transaction assigned to them. With the transaction tracking turned on the company can get a list of transactions which are heavily used and list of transaction which are very lightly used. Then the training co-coordinators can focus on the transaction which are heavily used and switch the training to compute based training for some of the lightly used transactions. This will save training cost for the company
Licensing
SAP Classifies user based on the type of transaction they perform in the system. If they perform change transactions they are classified as operational users, whereas if they are just using display transactions they can be classified as informational users. The cost of the licensing fees can be reduced if you can identify users who are just performing display transactions in the system.
Identify Security Incidents
Excessive use of the particular transaction by certain terminal or user can be investigated if someone is trying to compromise the system. One more aspect could also be analyzed is too many transaction failures occurring
Transaction monitoring gives you lot of value for the money, if it can be done on an automated way. Doing it manually could introduce lot of errors and will take lot of time. More over the result may not be consistent.
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