IT Audit - Governance, Risk, and Compliance Topic for Oracle Applications - page 260

Configuration Controls Governor
Oracle Configuration Controls Governor (CCG) provides internal control of
your ERP application setups, which enables you to take snapshots to document
ERP application setups and create comparisons of snapshots, to show how ERP
application setups have changed across time, operating units or organizations,
sets of topics, ERP instance versions, and ERP instances. In addition, CCG can
also provide continuous monitoring of ERP application changes by tracking all
changes to the application objects. The following steps are needed to set up ERP
controls using CCG and monitor changes:

Create
Definition

Deploy
Definition

Change/
Snapshot

Test
Definition

View
Snapshot

Lock/Share
Snapshot

Compare
Objects

Retrieve
Changes

View
Changes

Setup Query
and Alerts

Creating definitions
You can begin using CCG by creating the following definitions:

• Snapshot deinitions record setup data for a speciied ERP application
on a specified ERP instance
• Change tracking deinitions setup ongoing monitoring of speciied ERP
applications and instances.

Creating a snapshot definition
Perform the following steps in order to create a snapshot definition:

1. Select Workbench | Apps from the menu bar. A list of application

definitions will appear: