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Configuration Controls Governor for PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM & E-Business Suite. May 2009 Oracle GRC Strategy – Barry Greenhut. Configuration Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC). Configuration GRC can reduce: Financial Loss Regulatory Compliance Cost Audit Effort
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Configuration Controls Governor for PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM & E-Business Suite May 2009 Oracle GRC Strategy – Barry Greenhut
Configuration Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC) • Configuration GRC can reduce: • Financial Loss • Regulatory Compliance Cost • Audit Effort • Financial and Regulatory Risk • …by: • Controlling setup changes that can have significant financial or regulatory impact • Identifying setup changes that violate financial or regulatory policy • Accelerating documentation and analysis of setup values
Advantages of Configuration Controls Governor • Mature Product • Introduced in 1998 • Over 300 EBS customers • Over 60,000 developer-hours invested in creating metadata for PSFT and EBS
PSFT HCM Has Limited Configuration GRC Features of Its Own • PSFT HCM has built-in functionality that can do some of the same things that CCG does: • Effective Dating • Only on a per-field and per-environment basis • No ability to view/compare many fields at once, or to compare two environments' values • Only when enabled during PSFT installation • Only for some setup fields • PeopleSoft Query • Requires substantial expertise and effort to design each report • Must design a separate report for each table • Requires either Effective Dating or Database Audit
EBS Also Has Limited Configuration GRC Features of Its Own • EBS has built-in functionality to take and compare Snapshots (iSetup), but: • Does not offer Change Tracking - no audit trail or alerts • Only on a per-environment basis • Only some setups, and only some fields • Does not display data as seen in EBS
CCG Offers Greatest Value to Organizations that: • Have both PSFT HCM and EBS, and need to control the configurations of both • Need a single place to manage all configuration GRC • Need alerts when changes occur • Need to control setups not covered by built-in functionality • PSFT HCM • Need to document or compare entire setups • Need to compare two environments' setups • Need to enable configuration management after installing PSFT • EBS • Need audit trails that can be understood by business users
Summary • Configuration Controls Governor offers GRC value: • Reduce Financial Loss and Risk • Reduce Regulatory Compliance Cost and Risk • Reduce Audit Effort • CCG is a mature product that provides a single place to manage all configuration GRC • CCG comes ready-to-use, with support for: • PSFT HCM 8.8 (400+ setups) • EBS R12 (550+ setups)EBS 11i (3,000+ setups)
CCG comes with support for 400+ PSFT HCM 8.8/8.3 setups • Nine modules supported: • Other setups can be supported using MetaBuilder • Oracle evaluating market for HCM 8.9/9.0 and Financials 8.8/8.9/9.0
PSFT HCM built-in features: Effective Dating • Lets users assign start/end dates to operational data • Example: Create two salary records for John Doe, one effective through June 30, another beginning July 1 • Both records stored indefinitely (i.e., versioning of records) • Lets users create multiple records effective for the same date range • Records identified by automatically assigned sequence numbers
PSFT HCM built-in features: PeopleSoft Query • General-purpose reporting tool • Flexible and powerful, but obliges the user to design each report • With sufficient skill and effort, users could build a report that compares a single table’s Effective Dating records, but the report would be missing some vital information (see the preceding comparison) • For tables without Effective Dating, users could turn on database audit, and then build a report that compares the audit records, but most users won’t consider this option for tables that would generate a large amount of audit data
PSFT HCM built-in features: Summary • Effective Dating • Only on a per-field and per-environment basis • No ability to view/compare many fields at once, or to compare two environments' values • Only when enabled during PSFT installation • Only for some setup fields • PeopleSoft Query • Requires substantial expertise and effort to design each report • Must design a separate report for each table • Requires either Effective Dating or Database Audit