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The Internal Control Execution Gap: Why Documentation Alone Is Not Enough
Learn how internal controls automation replaces manual reports and fragmented evidence with structured reviews and audit-ready execution.
Internal Controls Automation
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SAP Licensing in 2026: Why Governance Matters More Than Ever
I recently spoke at an ASUGMEX InfoDay in Mexico City, together with SAP, about how to govern SAP licensing in 2026.
SAP Licensing
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SAP’s New API Policy and the Future of Enterprise AI Integration
In April 2026, SAP introduced a revised API Policy (v4/2026) that changes how SAP systems can be accessed by AI systems.
SAP Audit
DIY Check for Duplicate Business Partner
Clean master data is the bedrock of every SAP powered process. When the same customer, supplier or product is stored two (or two hundred) times under slig
SAP Compliance
SAP Security
DIY Sanctions List Screening in SAP
Sanctions screening is a straightforward but important process for any company operating internationally.
SAP Compliance
SAP Security
Identifying Discrepancies between Payment Runs and Vendor Master Data in SAP
In SAP Payment Runs and Vendor Master Data are two critical components that ensure vendors are paid accurately.
SAP Compliance
SAP Security
Order-to-Cash Processes: Ensuring Compliance and Preventing Fraud with Order-to-Cash and Revenue Assurance
Order-to-Cash (O2C) process is a critical part, involving the management of customer orders, invoicing and payments.
SAP Compliance
SAP Security
Procurement and Vendor Management: Ensuring Compliance and Preventing Fraud with Vendor Management and Procurement Processes
Ensuring Compliance and Preventing Fraud with Vendor Management and Procurement Processes
SAP Compliance
SAP Security
Asset Accounting Controls in remQ, and One Do-It-Yourself Control
Asset accounting is a crucial component of financial management that involves tracking the company’s fixed assets.
SAP Compliance
SAP Security
Streamlining Internal Controls with remQ: An Introduction to a Blog Post Series
Internal controls are essential for compliance, reducing errors, and preventing fraud in a dynamic business environment.
SAPS/4HANA
SAP Compliance
DIY Analysis of Single Action Violations in Your SAP System
In today's complex business environment, organizations rely on ERP systems like SAP for critical operations.
SAP Authorization
SAP Compliance
Important Updates for remQ: New Features & Transition to S/4HANA
Starting September 16, 2024, with the release of remQ 10.0, remQ will focus exclusively on development for SAP S/4HANA.
SAPS/4HANA
DIY Analysis of SoD (Segregation of Duties) Violations in Your SAP System
This guide will walk you through the process of creating an SAP QuickViewer Report to identify SoD conflicts.
SAP Authorization
SAP Compliance
Significant decisions regarding your SAP infrastructure lie ahead
As SAP customers face migration from SAP ECC to S/4HANA platforms, defining an effective infrastructure strategy is crucial.
RISEwithSAP
SAP Licensing
SAPS/4HANA
Elevating Your Business with SimpleMDG - The Future of Master Data Governance
MDG is essential but often challenging. If these issues resonate with you, it could be time to rethink your approach.
SAP Compliance
SAP Security
Duplicate Payments: Understand and prevent them!
Duplicate payments are a costly issue for many, leading to financial losses. Here's a overview of the problem and solutions.
SAP Compliance
SAP Security
RISE with SAP: SAP's enticing offer for the cloud
RISE with SAP is central to SAP S/4HANA transformation due to discounts, offering companies substantial savings potential.
RISEwithSAP
SAP Licensing
Access Violation Management in SAP ERP: Mitigating Risks
Access Violation Management (AVM) is a critical component of maintaining the integrity and security of an SAP ERP system.
SAP Compliance
SAP Security
RISE with SAP: Can you move to the cloud without worries?
The question that needs to be asked is: What motivates companies to toy with the idea of transforming their ERP to the cloud?
RISEwithSAP
SAP Licensing
Miss Q’s conclusion of "S/4HANA: Your path to the optimal licensing landscape" VOQUZ Labs’ interactive webinar
Discover Miss Q's conclusion on SAP license optimizations for S/4HANA migration in VOQUZ Labs' webinar.
SAPS/4HANA
Why Business Partner Screening Is Non-Negotiable (Plus How To Automate It in SAP)
This article explores how guanxi traditions adapt to a world where connections are just a click away.
SAP Security
S/4HANA: The path to an optimized license landscape
Mainstream support ends in 2027, originally 2025. Companies must prepare for the move to S/4HANA to avoid legacy issues.
SAP Compliance
SAPS/4HANA
Fraud Epidemic: Auditors Gear Up for Heightened Fraud Detection Responsibility
Rampant fraud cases are sending shudders down the spines of regulators worldwide, with experts describing it as an epidemic.
SAP Compliance
SAP Authorizations and Access Violation
Central to the functionality and security of SAP systems are its authorization and role management features.
SAP Compliance
Bodyguards for the journey to the cloud?
Companies have been talking about the cloud for years. More companies want to use this alternative or consider transferring.
SAP Compliance
SAPS/4HANA
The STAR analysis can help, but - if used incorrectly - it can also burn money
I warn our customers not to use any analysis without due care. STAR can be of great benefit, but it can also cost a lot of money.
SAP Compliance
Securing SAP Systems: A Comprehensive Approach
We delve into the importance of security measures, drawing on insights from IBM, bitkom and the ACFE Report to the Nations.
SAP Compliance
Crucial Ways Regulatory Trends Are Impacting Internal Controls: Everything You Need To Know
Regulatory compliance tasks are taking up more bandwidth. What regulatory trends are shaping this change?
SAP Compliance
The Crucial Role of Internal Controls Automation: Complying With These 4 Types of Regulation
We delve into the future of automated internal controls and tangibly demonstrate their direct role in legal compliance.
SAP Compliance
3 Bizarre Fraud Cases Explained (and What Internal Controls Pros Can Learn)
This article reveals three outlandish fraud and scam cases involving nefarious actors targeting businesses and organizations.
SAP Compliance
How Internal Controls Automation Is a Game Changer for ESG Management
In this article, we share insights into how the future of internal controls - automation - will assist ESG management.
SAP Compliance
The Changing Face of Internal Controls: 5 Trends To Watch in 2024
With 2024 fast approaching, let's delve into the five trends for 2024 that your internal controls team needs to know about.
SAP Compliance
The Hidden Cost of Invoice Errors: How To Zap the Problem in SAP
Companies worldwide throw millions of dollars down the drain yearly due to damaging invoicing and billing blunders.
SAP Compliance
Battling Business Email Compromise (BEC) Scams: How To Prevent Them Within SAP
We reveal more about BEC scams, how they work with a real example, and what your company can do within SAP to avoid it.
SAP Compliance
The Growing Threat of Invoice Fraud: Here’s How To Prevent It Within SAP
We discuss how the invoice fraud problem manifests within your SAP ERP & S/4HANA environment and reveal ways to thwart it.
SAP Compliance
Is Ghost Employee Fraud Draining Money From Your Business? How To Detect and Prevent It in SAP
In this guide, we'll reveal how to detect and prevent ghost employee fraud within your SAP ERP and S/4HANA systems.
SAP Compliance
Simplified Sanctions Screening Within SAP: Explained With Tangible Use Cases
This VOQUZ Labs article puts in plain language how integrating sanctions screening within SAP works - by providing tangible use cases.
SAP Compliance
The cost explosion in SAP is worrying!
The cost explosion in SAP is worrying! Let us summarize the developments of the last few weeks in a nutshell.
SAPS/4HANA
RISEwithSAP
Integrating Sanctions Screening in SAP: Here Are Immediate Benefits You Should Know
This guide reveals why smart, forward-thinking organizations are integrating sanctions screening into their SAP ERM and S/4HANA systems globally.
SAP Compliance
SAPS/4HANA
4 High-Profile Cases of INSIDER FRAUD Revealed (And How To Prevent It)
Cases of nefarious employees swindling their employers in intricate fraud schemes are increasingly common in news sites worldwide.
SAP Compliance
SAP: The chargeable maintenance base is dropping rapidly!
SAP has just announced that only 80% of the old maintenance base can be returned during contract conversion to S/4HANA transformation.
SAPS/4HANA
RISEwithSAP
How Controls Automation in SAP Strengthens Regulatory Compliance: Everything You Need To Know
Internal controls automation not only decreases regulatory compliance spending - it also delivers additional benefits to compliance.
SAP Compliance
Combating INTERNAL FRAUD Within SAP: 3 Schemes Bad Actors Use (And How To Foil Their Plans)
Top priority for internal controls: Enable 2023 processes to detect, prevent, and mitigate employee fraud.
SAP Compliance
Controls Automation Software for SAP: 3 MUST-HAVE Features to BOOST Internal Controls
We will reveal the tangible features of internal controls automation software within the SAP environment that all smart organizations should embrace.
SAP Compliance
Increase efficiency with SAP
Regardless of the size or industry of a company using SAP, they are facing the enormous technological transition to S/4HANA.
SAPS/4HANA
SAP Licensing
RISEwithSAP
Goodbye product conversion...
Quietly & unnoticed, product SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management for ERP customers (#7018538) is disappearing from the price list of Q2/2023.
SAPS/4HANA
SAP Licensing
RISEwithSAP
Automating Internal Controls Is a CFO's New Best Friend: 4 Ways It SAVES MONEY Revealed
This VOQUZ Labs guide reveals four ways automating internal controls can quickly boost your company's bottom line.
SAP Compliance
Stay AHEAD of the CURVE: Unlocking the Power of REAL-TIME MONITORING and Auditing
This VOQUZ Labs guide reveals everything you need to know about real-time monitoring and auditing, plus all the benefits.
SAP Compliance
Navigating Complexity & Chaos: Approaching Regulatory Requirements with Control Automation
Control Automation: Keeping business strategy, performance, uncertainty, complexity, and change in sync is a huge challenge for all!
SAP Compliance
Navigating the UK's Looming 'Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence' (Plus 3 Crucial Tips)
The Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence (due tobe enacted in 2024) is essentially an amendment to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill 2022.
SAP Compliance
Internal Controls Automation 101: What It Is and How It Works
Companies lose 5% of revenues to accountancy errors & fraud. The reality is that organizations must look internally to find ways to reduce that.
SAP Compliance
Stop Errors & Fraud! Time to tackle absurd losses in your revenue.
Real-time Fraud and Error Prevention: remQ stops suspicious business transactions activities before the impact the revenue.
SAP Compliance
"RISE with SAP" - a revolutionary licensing model?
This article takes a closer look at SAP's new product, RISE with SAP, which was introduced at the beginning of 2021. We take a look at the features.
RISEwithSAP
Why SAP Digital Access is still not a viable pricing model
This article delves into the question of why SAP Digital Access pricing model is still not a viable pricing model. Read on to discover the details.
SAP Licensing
SAP Digital Access
6 months until the end of DAAP – Ignoring will be expensive!
6 months until the end of SAP DAAP (Digital Access Adoption Program) – Ignoring will be expensive!
SAP Digital Access
SAP Licensing
RISE with SAP – Friend or Foe?
At the beginning of 2021, SAP praised a new product named “RISE with SAP”, said to support clients getting closer to having an intelligent enterprise.
SAP Licensing
SAP Audit
Beware of dual SAP licensing
This article sheds light on the often unnoticed, but not so rare issue of multiple licensing in SAP User Licences.
SAP Licensing
SAP Audit
Digital Access and how to avoid an unfriendly audit by SAP
Between 50 and 70% of companies have still not dealt with the topic of SAP Digital Access/SAP Indirect Access. Learn more about it...
SAP Licensing
SAP Digital Access
SAP Audit
Every Cloud Negotiation Has a Silver Lining
Pay close attention to SAP licensing price negotiation and usage forecasting to get the best possible commercial solutions. How? Read the article ...
SAP Licensing
SAP Advisory
SAP Digital Access in 2021 – Now is the time to Take Action!
SAP Digital Access is a term coined by SAP as part of their approach to modernizing Indirect Access. Read more...
SAP Digital Access
SAP Advisory
Reducing Annual SAP Support and Maintenance Costs – Yes You Can!
Many SAP customers face over-paying on SAP Support and Maintenance as a result of being over-licensed. Learn how to avoid this...
SAP Licensing
The tiresome story with the SAP NetWeaver Foundation for Third Party License
There are two ways of licensing, the first one is charged by user and the second one is simply to license by cores that access the SAP databases.
SAP Licensing
SAP Digital Access
SAP Advisory
SAP Passport which should count indirectly created documents, is also a never ending story…
Passport is the SAP program for counting indirectly created documents. Well, that should be a reality someday. Read more...
SAP Digital Access
SAP Licensing
Digital Access, a never ending story…
Even at the risk of getting bored about SAP Digital Access at some point, there is always something new that is important to know about it. Read more...
SAP Digital Access
How to Prepare for an Annual SAP License Audit
Explaining a full Annual SAP License Audit process from start to finish and highlighting the steps that SAP customers can take to prepare properly.
SAP Audit
SAP Advisory
10 Things You Need to Know about SAP License Audits
SAP customers are required to participate in annual license audits. This is normally performed by running standard SAP audit tools. Read more...
SAP Audit
SAP Advisory
Why SAP Digital Access is not a viable pricing model yet
SAP has been charging some clients for indirect use for more than five years, but the rules were officially published first later. Read more...
SAP Digital Access
SAP Licensing
Choosing your Database for SAP
If you want or have to use a non-SAP database, like the ones form Microsoft, IBM or Oracle, think twice, before you purchase them form SAP ...
SAP Advisory
SAP Licensing
SAP license audits are on the increase – Are you ready?
Software license audits have been and always will be a major source of revenue for all the major software publishers. Learn more about it ...
SAP Audit
SAP Licensing
SAP Advisory
SAP Digital access in “colorful diversity”
Since the publication of SAP Passport, we have been tirelessly understanding the way these chargeable documents are counted. Read more...
SAP Digital Access
SAP Digital Access – a positive opportunity
SAP Passport will, however, count the relevant fee-based documents. Today we take a look at the financial possibilities of SAP Digital/SAP Indirect Acces.
SAP Digital Access
Licensing – Double and Triple
SAP Digital Access makes it possible that you may have double or triple licensing. Learn how to avoid this ...
SAP Licensing
Correction to SAP’s Passport Tool – What samQ already knew
SAP Indirect Access has been an integral part of our samQ license optimization software for years. Read more...
SAP Digital Access
SAP Advisory
SAP Digital Access: A severe financial risk?
SAP Digital Access is defined as a new pricing model […] that provides an approach to licensing Indirect and Digital Access to the SAP Digital Core.
SAP Digital Access
SAP Advisory
SAP Digital Access: An outcome-based model aligned to Company Size? The numbers say NO.
When you connect a non-SAP application to SAP, which transfers one or more pre-defined data objects into SAP, you’ll have to pay extra. Learn why ...
SAP Digital Access
SAP Licensing
SAP Advisory
SAP’s Support Extension – How will it impact your S/4 HANA Strategy?
On February 4th 2020 SAP announced a maintenance commitment for SAP S/4HANA until the end of 2040. Read more...
SAPS/4HANA
SAP Licensing
DAAP extension until December 2021
Latest developments in a previously reported rumor. Last week, we shared information about a potential announcement, and this week it has become official.
SAP Licensing
SAP Digital Access
Free up SAP licensing budgets to invest in your future!
Many companies are in search for budgets to invest in their future. We @VOQUZ Labs help you analyzing your saving potential with our Quick Assessment.
SAP Licensing
SAP Advisory
How secure is your SAP authorization concept?
In a German company, wages were paid over several years to an employee who never existed. Read more...
SAP Authorization
SAP Compliance
No more stress with SAP authorizations assignments
We are talking about the assignment of SAP authorizations and there are as many workflow variants in the world as there are companies. Read more...
SAP Authorization
SAP Compliance
No more stress with SAP authorization assignments – setQ
Unfortunately, you lose sight of many, many details over time and most SAP authorization situations in companies could be described as “opaque” ...
SAP Authorization
SAP Advisory
Delivered as expected – SAP extends its maintenance periods
For 2025, SAP had announced the end of maintenance for ECC, that is, for SAP Business Suite 7. What does this mean?
SAP Licensing
SAP Advisory
The new model of indirect use (Digital Access)
Those who attended the webinar on January 22nd, 2020 to get a clear and comprehensible update on SAP digital access may have been slightly disappointed.
SAP Digital Access
SAP Licensing
Preparing your Negotiation of a SAP S/4HANA Contract
With SAP ECC falling out of support in 2025 SAP customers will have to plan the migration of their SAP landscapes to S/4HANA. Read more ...
SAPS/4HANA
SAP Licensing
All you can eat – The carefree package for your SAP license management?
Large SAP enterprise are increasingly choosing SAP’s UDD contract as their preferred way of licensing SAP software. Why? Read more...
SAP Licensing
Digital Access and Passport – a good combination?
Measure or estimate? It is not quite clear how to finally get the right results of your SAP Digital Access documents. Read more...
SAP Digital Access
SAP Advisory
Use the new S/4HANA license definitions – it’s worth it
Today we want to take a closer look at the new SAP S/4HANA license definitions and show you how the changes will affect your business. Read more ...
SAPS/4HANA
SAP Licensing
SAP Licenses: Which ones do I have? Which ones do I really need?
You have a huge pool of SAP licenses in your company, but in the end you always fall back on the familiar ones when buying new licenses. Read more ...
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