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CSI tools is a Belgian software corporation that makes security software to manage, audit and maintain SAP security concepts. CSI tools’ headquarter is in Herent Belgium.

Foundation
Many (mult)inationals were using SAP software to support their business. The security in SAP is done with the SAP security concept. During audits this security concept needed to be analyzes to be sure that the critical data in the SAP systems where confidential and secure. There were no audit tools on the market to do these analyses and it was a manual job that was very time consuming and mistakes were easily made.

CSI Authorization Auditor
In 1997 Johan Hermans decided to bring an audit tool to the market that was capable of analyzing the SAP security concept and to support the accountants with their audits. This version was a stand alone software, build in Microsoft Access and was used by the big audit companies at the (multi)nationals in the annual audits. This audit software was developed and brought to the market by CSI.

CSI Authorization Organizer
Building and maintaining the SAP Security concept was also a job that was very time consuming and inefficient. To support the maintenance and building of SAP security concept a new tool was invented, CSI Authorization Organizer. With CSI Authorization Organizer the role building part was supported and this stand alone tool was adopted by companies who needed to maintain their SAP security concept.

CSI tools 2014 GRC suite
The SAP systems were getting bigger and bigger and the need for clients/server solutions was growing. The old versions of CSI tools were limited because of the Microsoft Access platform. In 2014 CSI tools decided to move away from the Access platform and redevelop their tooling in .NET. This made it possible to create a solution that fully support the Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) needs for companies. Corporate restructuring CSI was a consultancy firm with a small number of software developers. Besides making the software to audit the SAP security concept, they also did consultancy work on auditing, analyzing and maintaining the SAP security concept. The company grow bigger and was split up in two companies, CSI Belgium and CSI Netherlands, later on CSI America and CSI APAC would follow. The software development was separated from the consultancy to CSI DOC. Later this name was changed to CSI tools.

Business and markets
CSI tools is being used all over the world by (multi)nationals, consultancy and audit firms. CSI tools is using an unique approach to audit and analyze the SAP security. The focus is not on the transaction level, but on data elements. With the multi layer analysis all levels of the SAP security concept are taken into account, but the data elements makes it possible to report and analyze all elements and errors in roles, assignments and GRC rule set can be found.