Novell Partners With Logica For Combined GRC Offering With SAP

Novell and Logica Management Consulting, the consulting arm of IT and business services company, Logica, have announced their partnership for bringing a combined governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) offering with SAP to the market. The partnership, announced at the SAP GRC 2009 Conference this week, enables Logica, to provide an enterprise-wide risk management approach. Both Novell and Logica are SAP-certified partners.

Novell, SAP and Logica are collaborating on the integration of GRC solutions that improve predictability and automate and enforce common controls while providing transparency to business processes across the enterprise. The solutions will increase internal and external compliance and eliminate resource silos and inefficiencies by automating the process of discovering and remediating high-risk business problems.

Logica helps clients to implement three main modules of SAP GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) - Access Control, Process Control and Risk Management. Logica is the first worldwide partner of SAP on SAP GRC solution, except for external auditors. These SAP modules enable companies to centralise information coming from applicative environments in order to bring in transparency on company-related risks.

Markus J Krauss, Vice President, Identity & Security Management, Novell EMEA, said, “We are delighted to work closely with Logica on bringing a combined GRC offering for SAP customers to the market. This offering includes integrated governance, risk and compliance solutions to help bridge the gap between business processes and IT security and controls.”