Sphera’s Compliance Engine for EH&S is an integrated pre-packaged product compliance suite for SAP EHS Management designed to help customers streamline processes, manage compliance risks, understand compliance impact, and improve transparency.
2021 marks the 25th year of SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) delivering SAP integration services around third-party applications and SAP solutions. Through the years, SAP ICC has been enabling SAP partners and independent software vendors’ (ISVs) solutions or apps to be certified with the latest SAP technologies, ultimately benefitting SAP customers. Certified partner solutions bring unparalleled confidence to customers, reassuring them that their SAP investment is maximised.
One of the recently certified solution by SAP ICC is from Sphera, an SAP Silver Partner and a leading global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance and risk management software, data and consulting services provider. Sphera’s Compliance Engine for EH&S solution, a modular, pre-packaged ABAP add-on for SAP Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Management, has been certified for integration with SAP S/4HANA.
Sharing about the recent SAP achievement, Sphera CEO and President Paul Marushka said:
“We are delighted to announce that our Compliance Engine has achieved SAP-certified integration with SAP S/4HANA. As a partner in the SAP PartnerEdge program, this certified integration reaffirms our commitment to the SAP marketplace and underscores the value delivered to our customers through our innovative Compliance Engine solution.”
Headquartered in Chicago, Sphera has a market presence spanning over 80 countries including Australia, India, Japan, and the UK catering to over 3,000 customers. The firm leverages software as a service solution (SaaS) software, proprietary data, and consulting services in helping organisations to measure and manage their performance and risk exposure around their ESG goals.
Compliance Engine for SAP EHS Management Achieves SAP ICC Approval
With an extensive global regulatory content, Sphera’s Compliance Engine offers innovative components critical for creating compliant regulatory documents– including safety data sheets (SDSs)– and delivers interoperability with SAP solutions. Specifically, the Compliance Engine for EH&S 4.11.2 has been certified by SAP ICC for integration with SAP S/4HANA as an add-on to ABAP programming language for use with SAP S/4HANA application, the German enterprise giant’s next-generation ERP solution.
A flexible, comprehensive managed regulatory content solution, Compliance Engine for EH&S offers the process industry accelerated deployment by incorporating an extensive selection of pre-packaged content and analytics into the SAP EHS Module. The Compliance engine helps businesses streamline their product compliance program by allowing users to screen regulatory content as well as review regulatory assessments to better understand the impact of any modifications to their product portfolio within SAP environments.
Furthermore, the solution’s capability to perform integrity audits that recognises conflicting primary data or missing data guarantees users of data consistency and quality. Sphera’s Compliance Engine for EH&S allows personalised configuration to fulfill regulatory grey zones or company needs.
In September, Sphera became a portfolio company leading alternative asset investment company Blackstone under a $1.4 billion transaction. The acquisition of the ESG software specialist further reinforced Blackstone’s investment on the ESG segment whilst supporting Sphera’s growth strategy. In relation to SAP, Jennifer Morgan, former SAP Co-Chief Executive Officer, became Blackstone’s first Global Head of Portfolio Transformation and Talent in November 2020 responsible for leading a team within Blackstone’s portfolio operations group to drive the digital transformation of its over 200 portfolio companies.
