SAP AG and Cisco Systems Inc. have teamed up to allow businesses to reach across the enterprise in real time to develop, implement and monitor their data privacy policies.

The integrated application, Data Privacy, extends beyond a company's usual siloed approach by providing a central, enterprise-wide repository of global and local data controls that can be set up and enforced at the network level, says Michael Rasmussen, president of Corporate Integrity LLC, a governance, risk and compliance (GRC) strategy advisory firm.

SAP's GRC Process Control application models data risks and regulatory compliance goals and policies, while controls are implemented in real time using Cisco's Application-Oriented Networking (AON) platform. Controls can be manual or automatic and are enforced for all data, whether in use by applications or transmitted through the network.