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Leesburg, VA and Copenhagen, Denmark May 2, 2008 -- EnCrisp LLC today announced that it has partnered with AppliCon Solutions A/S to provide software, strategic planning and implementation services that help SAP® customers improve their security design and management process driven by Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) mandates. EnCrisp is a Global SAP Security Alliance partner specializing in world class solutions for SAP Security, GRC and business process compliance integration and implementation, combining best in class technical security architecture methodologies, financial and audit business rules and security software design expertise. AppliCon Solutions creates and distributes software products that save time and simplify SAP processes throughout the SAP security design life cycle.
Increased focus on security and segregation of duties has caused authorizations - the "who does what and when" - to become a more important part of SAP projects. AppliCon Solutions' Authorization Process Manager®, which runs with SAP® Business Suite, optimizes processes involving SAP authorizations. The Authorization Process Manager® along with EnCrisp's security solution methodology, helps guarantee cost reductions in SAP security initiatives. It also ensures increased compliance and the efficiency and effectiveness of SAP security roles throughout the life cycle of design, building and testing roles, correcting errors, and supporting the production system. The joint EnCrisp/AppliCon solution is driven by a single-minded focus on cost reduction and increased optimization of SAP security and related GRC processes. It leverages EnCrisp's world class EnCURE™ methodology for SAP GRC and security design implementations using hands-on technical, audit, financial and business process experience to design and implement leading edge SAP-centric security and compliance solutions.
EnCrisp helps its customers establish their GRC programs for multiple SAP landscapes. It assists them in designing, integrating and enabling end-to-end compliance across SAP application security, business process and configuration controls, and IT general controls. EnCrisp's broader business-driven solutions focus has resulted in over 75% security and internal controls improvements and efficiency gains related to SAP at many clients. Having achieved many successes with its proven methodologies, EnCrisp is the only firm in the industry that offers a "Guaranteed Results" program to its customers backing up their best practices business-driven security and compliance sustainability approach.
"From our background as SAP consultants, we share a common approach and philosophy about our work, namely that real-world experience and process insights are key," said Christian Bruun, AppliCon Managing Director. "The partnership with EnCrisp reinforces this message and supports the delivery of world-class solutions to our mutual customers worldwide," he added.
"With cost containment becoming the major emphasis of many global SAP customers in an increasingly cautious economic and regulatory environment, we welcome the opportunity to partner with a like-minded organization that uses its SAP experience and creativity to develop better and much more cost-efficient solutions. This partnership is a continuation of our global commitment to SAP as a platform of choice for our mutual customers. And it builds upon our Global SAP Security Alliance partnership complementing all the SAP GRC product strategies," commented Bhavesh C. Bhagat, EnCrisp CEO.
About AppliCon Solutions A/S
Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, AppliCon Solutions is part of the AppliCon Group, an international group of SAP consultancy companies with more than 200 employees and offices in Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, and the UK. AppliCon Solutions specializes in creative software solutions for improving implementation and maintenance of SAP solutions, delivering ready-to-use software products to SAP® customers around the world. AppliCon Solutions is an SAP Software Partner and its Authorization Process Manager® is an SAP® Certified Integration. For more information visit www.appliconsolutions.com
About EnCrisp LLC
EnCrisp® is an SAP Global Security Alliance partner and global leader in designing and implementing leading-edge SAP GRC solutions with a "business-driven" approach to improve SAP security, automate audit risk assessments and eliminate inefficiencies. Its multi-disciplinary consulting approach has established the firm as a benchmark in the industry - a preferred one-stop shop for internal controls compliance solutions for security design, audits, controls design, testing and corporate governance. Private, public and governmental entities of all sizes benefit from EnCrisp's corporate governance, internal controls, security design, training and risk management solutions. For more information visit www.EnCrisp.com
SAP, and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries all over the world. EnCrisp and EnCURE are registered trademarks of EnCrisp LLC in the United States and certain other countries. Authorization Process Manager is a registered trademark of the AppliCon Group in Denmark and several other countries. Data contained in this document serve informational purposes only.