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Skywind is both a leading software development company and a trusted SAP consulting partner. Our services span two key areas: enhancing and sustaining SAP operations through our innovative platform solutions and delivering expert SAP consulting for projects beyond our platform. Whether implementing Skywind’s tools, optimizing SAP landscapes, or running end-to-end SAP projects, we provide tailored solutions to drive operational excellence, compliance, and measurable business outcomes.

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Skywind SoDA™

Skywind SoDA™ (Segregation of Duties and Authorizations) is an agile, robust analytical and functional solution for continuous identification of risks related to Segregation of Duties conflicts, Authorizations discrepancies and related threats in SAP environments. The platform provides comprehensive controls for tracking, eliminating, and preventing dangerous combinations of roles and transactions while ensuring compliance with internal policies and external regulations.

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Real-Time SoD Violation Detection

Skywind SoDA™ delivers immediate identification of potential and actual Segregation of Duties violations across all SAP systems, providing continuous monitoring rather than periodic snapshots that traditional GRC tools offer. The platform continuously analyzes user roles and transactions to identify conflicts that could enable fraud or policy violations, ensuring organizations maintain constant compliance rather than just preparing for audits.

The following examples represent a selection of the extensive SoD governance controls available within the Skywind SoDA™ platform. These controls demonstrate the breadth and depth of Skywind's segregation of duties capabilities, with many additional specialized controls available to address specific organizational needs and compliance scenarios.

Comprehensive SoD Analysis

  • Real-Time Violation Detection: Continuously analyzes user roles and transactions to identify potential and actual segregation of duties violations as they occur, not just during periodic reviews.
  • Cross-Reference Role Analysis: Performs internal and cross-reference analysis of roles to detect conflicting permissions and responsibilities at the deepest levels.
  • Advanced Simulations: Enables what-if scenarios to test role changes and assess potential SoD impacts before implementation, preventing new violations.
  • Rich Pool of Pre-Configured Content: Includes over 100 rules created in cooperation with the world's largest audit firms for comprehensive SoD coverage from day one.
  • Exception Management: Provides mechanisms for managing approved exceptions and documenting business justifications for unavoidable conflicts
  • Where-Used Analysis: Offers dozens of graphical workflows to trace role assignments and understand access patterns across the organization.

Advanced Visualization and Analysis

Skywind SoDA™ provides sophisticated visualization tools that transform complex authorization data into clear, actionable insights. The platform's intuitive interface enables security teams to quickly identify risks and understand relationships between different SAP entities.

These visualization and analysis capabilities represent illustrative examples of Skywind SoDA™'s extensive monitoring features. The platform includes numerous additional analytical mechanisms designed to provide complete visibility into SoD risks and authorization conflicts.

Intuitive Visualization Tools

  • Graphical Workflows: Visualizes relationships between users, roles, profiles, transactions, authorization objects, and SoD rules through interactive diagrams.
  • Analytical Dashboards: Features dozens of KPIs with direct drill-down capabilities leading to detailed reports and visual insights.
  • Best-in-Class User Interface: Provides an intuitive, modern interface that requires minimal training and enables rapid adoption.
  • Multi-Tiered Search Assistance: Ensures ease in searching for specific objects (roles, users, transactions) while referring to other objects.
  • Relationship Mapping: Enables security teams to understand complex relationships between different SAP entities through visual representation.
  • Drill-Down Capabilities: Allows users to navigate from high-level dashboards to detailed information with a single

Lightweight Implementation and Efficiency

Unlike traditional GRC solutions that require extensive implementation efforts and ongoing maintenance, Skywind SoDA™ offers a lightweight, efficient approach to SoD governance that minimizes impact on SAP systems while maximizing value.

These implementation and efficiency features represent examples of Skywind SoDA™'s advantages over traditional GRC solutions. The platform includes numerous additional capabilities designed to provide rapid time-to-value and minimal operational overhead.

Rapid Deployment and Low Maintenance

  • Full Implementation in Days: Complete implementation cycle in 1-5 days compared to months for traditional GRC solutions.
  • Non-Intrusive Service: Operates as a lightweight, non-intrusive service that doesn't overload customer's SAP systems.
  • SAP Version Agnostic: Maintains consistent performance across diverse SAP updates and migrations, including S/4HANA transitions.
  • Database Type Agnostic: Works with any database type supported by SAP, eliminating compatibility concerns.
  • No Adjustments During Migrations: Requires no modifications when migrating from ECC to S/4HANA, ensuring continuous protection.
  • SaaS Delivery Model: Available as a cloud-based service with minimal infrastructure requirements and rapid deployment.

Comprehensive User Activity Monitoring

Skywind SoDA™ goes beyond static role analysis to provide continuous monitoring of user activities, enabling organizations to detect actual SoD violations and suspicious behaviors that could indicate fraud attempts.

These user activity monitoring capabilities represent examples of Skywind SoDA™'s comprehensive behavioral analysis features. The platform includes numerous additional monitoring controls designed to provide complete visibility into user activities across SAP environments.

User Behavior Analysis

  • User Activity Screening: Continuously screens user activities against established SoD rules and policies to detect violations in real-time.
  • Transaction Pattern Analysis: Analyzes transaction patterns to identify suspicious activities that could indicate fraud attempts.
  • Suspicious Behavior Detection: Identifies unusual user behaviors that deviate from established baselines and could indicate security threats.
  • Actual Violation Monitoring: Detects when users actually perform conflicting activities, not just when they have the potential to do so.
  • Continuous Compliance Validation: Provides ongoing validation of SoD compliance rather than periodic snapshots, ensuring constant protection.
  • Automated Alerting: Generates alerts when suspicious activities or SoD violations are detected, enabling rapid response.

Content Customization and Management

Skywind SoDA™ provides extensive capabilities for customizing and managing SoD rules and content, enabling organizations to tailor the solution to their specific needs while maintaining compliance with industry standards.

These content customization capabilities represent examples of Skywind SoDA™'s flexible configuration features. The platform includes numerous additional customization options designed to adapt to specific organizational requirements and compliance frameworks.

Flexible Rule Configuration

  • Instant Rule Implementation: Allows organizations to quickly implement pre-configured SoD rules or create custom rules based on specific requirements.
  • Custom Content Creation: Enables rapid creation of custom SoD rules and business functions either by copying and pasting from Excel or through manual input.
  • Exception Management: Provides mechanisms for managing approved exceptions and documenting business justifications for unavoidable conflicts.
  • Analysis Path Customization: Allows security teams to customize analysis paths and exclude specific applications or transactions from SoD checks.
  • Rule Tailoring: Enables quick modification of pre-configured rules to address specific client needs and compliance requirements.

Competitive Advantages Over Traditional GRC

Skywind SoDA™ offers significant advantages over traditional GRC solutions, providing a more agile, cost-effective approach to SoD governance while delivering superior results.

These competitive advantages represent examples of Skywind SoDA™'s unique value proposition. The platform includes numerous additional benefits that differentiate it from traditional GRC solutions.

Superior GRC Alternative

  • Cost Efficiency: Avoids the excessive costs associated with traditional GRC tools, both in terms of initial investment and ongoing maintenance.
  • Rapid Time-to-Value: Delivers immediate results through pre-configured content and rapid implementation, compared to months-long GRC implementations.
  • Continuous Monitoring: Provides ongoing validation of SoD compliance rather than the periodic snapshots typical of traditional GRC tools.
  • Seamless SAP Integration: Works across all SAP versions and database types without disruption during upgrades or migrations.
  • User-Friendly Design: Features an intuitive interface that requires minimal training, reducing adoption barriers and enabling rapid value realization.
  • Comprehensive Security: Stores all processed data in the client's SAP systems with binary encryption and double-encrypted data channels.

Automated User Access
and Risk Review in Skywind SoDA™

Enhanced User Access Review Capabilities

Skywind SoDA™ now includes a comprehensive, automated solution for User Access and Risk Reviews that transforms how organizations manage access governance in their SAP environments. This powerful addition to the SoDA platform enables organizations to conduct thorough user access reviews based on sophisticated analysis of user behavior patterns and access rights, ensuring continuous compliance while dramatically reducing manual effort.

The system leverages SoDA's deep understanding of user activities, roles, and permissions to provide context-rich reviews that go beyond traditional static role analysis, identifying actual usage patterns and potential risks that might otherwise remain hidden.

The intuitive interface and automated workflows improve the experience for all stakeholders:

  • Administrators benefit from simplified campaign management
  • Reviewers receive properly routed, relevant access information
  • Business managers gain visibility into team access patterns
  • Audit teams receive comprehensive, ready-to-use documentation
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Skywind SoDA™'s automated campaign management transforms user access reviews from a manual, time-consuming process into a streamlined, efficient workflow by automatically generating review campaigns from SoD violation reports, intelligently routing tasks to appropriate managers based on organizational hierarchy, and providing comprehensive dashboards that display critical metrics including workflow status, completion rates, and reviewer progress. This automation eliminates manual distribution efforts, reduces review campaign setup time from days to minutes, and provides instant visibility into campaign status, enabling organizations to conduct thorough access reviews with minimal administrative overhead.

SoDA's analytics dashboards stand out through their combination of comprehensive KPIs with direct drill-down capabilities, intuitive visualization of complex relationships between users, roles, and permissions, and real-time risk scoring that quantifies user access patterns and potential threats. These dashboards transform complex authorization data into clear, actionable insights by providing visual representations of SoD violations, authorization conflicts, and suspicious user activities, enabling security teams to quickly identify high-risk areas, understand the relationships between different SAP entities, and prioritize remediation efforts based on risk severity and business impact.

The screenshots demonstrate SoDA's streamlined implementation and campaign management capabilities by showing the intuitive organizational hierarchy mapping screen that facilitates automated workflow routing, the comprehensive review dashboard with clear status indicators for initial, active, finished, and cancelled workflows, and the flexible workflow generation options that enable multiple concurrent campaigns. These visual elements highlight how SoDA enables security teams to initiate comprehensive User Risk Review campaigns in minutes rather than days, monitor multiple concurrent campaigns without additional effort, and automatically route reviews to appropriate managers based on employee-manager relationships, all through an intuitive interface that requires minimal training.

Full automation is crucial for efficient User Risk reviews because it eliminates the manual overhead that traditionally makes these reviews burdensome, enables consistent application of review criteria across the organization, and ensures timely completion through automated follow-up and escalation for overdue reviews. SoDA's automation capabilities transform what was once a manual, error-prone process into an efficient, effective control mechanism by automatically generating User Risk Review workflows from SoD violation reports, routing reviews to appropriate stakeholders based on organizational hierarchy, and tracking completion status in real-time, enabling organizations to maintain continuous compliance without the administrative burden typically associated with access reviews.

SoDA's visual elements effectively demonstrate its comprehensive user behavior analysis through interactive relationship diagrams that show connections between users, roles, and transactions, color-coded risk indicators that instantly highlight potential threats, and trend visualizations that reveal changes in access patterns over time. These visual components transform complex user activity data into intuitive, actionable insights by enabling security teams to visualize suspicious behavior patterns, identify toxic combinations of permissions, and detect anomalous activities that deviate from established baselines, providing a complete picture of user behavior that goes beyond static role analysis to include actual usage patterns and potential risks.