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IAM tools assign business roles: named bundles that grant ERP roles across one or more systems. Approval workflows see the bundle name, not the authorizations behind it. MTC Skopos now imports business roles alongside your ERP exports and analyses the access they grant exactly like direct assignments, with full attribution, simulation, and remediation.

Critical access is a category of access risk separate from Segregation of Duties: transactions that cause damage on their own, without needing a conflicting partner. This guide lists the critical transactions every SAP environment should monitor, explains how to detect them with access risk analysis, and shows how MTC Skopos catches them in the same pass as SoD.

A practical guide to SAP authorization design that holds up in production. Covers role architecture, naming conventions, organizational value strategy, least privilege enforcement, critical access monitoring, and the change governance process that keeps your landscape clean over time.

SAP GRC and Pathlock implementations take months. Your SoD risks are not waiting. MTC Skopos runs risk analysis and remediation from day one, with no infrastructure and no configuration project. Clean your authorization landscape before you automate it, stay clean during rollout, and transfer your validated ruleset to SAP GRC or Pathlock when it goes live. Then keep Skopos for the systems your GRC suite does not reach.

Role redesign projects typically stretch across months of consultant workshops, spreadsheet gymnastics, and back-and-forth validation cycles. The AI Role Designer collapses this into an iterative conversation: provide a functional blueprint, let AI analyze historical usage, generate a new role concept, run risk analysis, and refine until clean. Then build the roles, whether manually or through AI connected directly to SAP.

SoD remediation has long been the bottleneck of GRC programs. This white paper explains how MTC Skopos automates the process with a four-phase algorithm that prioritizes least-disruptive fixes, protects business continuity, and validates every recommendation before implementation.

Payroll postings, treasury transactions, executive compensation - some G/L accounts need tighter access control. Here's how to configure authorization groups with F_BKPF_BES and F_BKPF_BLA in SAP S/4HANA, step by step.

Exploiting SAP used to require both system access and years of domain expertise. AI collapses that second requirement. An attacker with a basic SAP login and a language model can now navigate the system, understand authorization structures, and find exploitation paths that previously took specialists weeks to uncover. What does that mean for how you manage access risk?

A guide to building an accounts payable segregation of duties matrix for SAP, with specific transaction codes, authorization objects, and common AP SoD conflicts.

A technical reference for SAP SoD conflicts: specific transaction code combinations, authorization objects that drive conflicts, and practical detection methods for SAP ECC and S/4HANA.

SAP's FUE measurement model assigns every user a license tier based on their authorization profile, not their actual behavior. That gap between assigned and used access is where organizations hemorrhage money. Learn how the FUE calculation works, what the STAR ruleset actually measures, and how to use MTC Skopos to bring your license position back in line with reality.

SaaS GRC tools trade operational convenience for data sovereignty. Your SAP authorization data lives on someone else's servers, analyzed their way, exported in their formats. In the AI era, where agents need raw data and local processing matters more than dashboards, these constraints become deal-breakers. MTC Skopos takes a different approach: your data never leaves your infrastructure.

Traditional SoD analysis identifies who has conflicting access. Did-Do analysis answers the critical follow-up question: Did users with risky access actually make changes? This evidence-based access violation monitoring approach transforms compliance from theoretical to actionable.

Your ECC SoD matrix won't work in S/4HANA. Learn how to build a ruleset that covers Fiori apps, OData services, and the new authorization architecture - without starting from scratch.

A comprehensive comparison of Segregation of Duties tools and SoD software for SAP environments. Discover what makes an effective SoD solution and where MTC Skopos fits in the market landscape.

A complete guide to building and maintaining your SAP Segregation of Duties matrix, with a free downloadable Excel (XLS) template and best practices for automation.

For years, GRC tools have been designed with complexity that required consultants to operate effectively. AI is changing that equation. Organizations that can feed clean data to AI agents are getting results in minutes that used to take weeks.

An access risk report documents the access risks in an ERP landscape — SoD violations, critical access, and over-privileged users — plus recommended remediation. MTC Skopos delivers the underlying risk data as structured models ready for Power BI, Tableau, or any BI tool, so your access risk report reflects your priorities rather than a vendor's fixed template.

Protect your organization from fraud with proper Segregation of Duties. Learn how to distribute critical functions across personnel to eliminate single points of control.

Segregation of duties: Right team working with the right tool, what normally takes weeks of review without the proper tool, we knocked out in a few days.

SAP Access Risk Analysis (ARA) is the process of evaluating user permissions to identify SoD conflicts, critical access, and over-provisioning. MTC Skopos delivers fast, on-premise ARA with step-by-step remediation and flat-rate pricing — an alternative to SAP GRC Access Control, Pathlock, and cloud-based access risk tools.