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What is SAP Identity Management?
With SAP Identity Management, organizations can perform identity provisioning, data synchronization, and identity virtualization. It enables organizations to embed identity management into their business processes and centralize user access management. The SAP Identity Management component helps organizations align user lifecycle management with key business processes running in cloud and on-premise. Business managers can define role-based user access rights and implement identity management across enterprise applications while providing centralized data, alerts, and reporting. The solution supports identity management across SAP software as well as heterogeneous and hybrid landscapes, including third-party business applications, operations systems, e-mail systems, and databases.
Key capabilities include:
- Line-of-business-driven identity management
- Built-in connector to cloud-based Identity Provisioning service
- Reporting and auditing functionality
- Password management and employee self-service
- Business-aligned user access rights, roles, and privileges
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
What is SAP Identity Management?
With SAP Identity Management, organizations can perform identity provisioning, data synchronization, and identity virtualization. It enables organizations to embed identity management into their business processes and centralize user access management. The SAP Identity Management component helps organizations align user lifecycle management with key business processes running in cloud and on-premise. Business managers can define role-based user access rights and implement identity management across enterprise applications while providing centralized data, alerts, and reporting. The solution supports identity management across SAP software as well as heterogeneous and hybrid landscapes, including third-party business applications, operations systems, e-mail systems, and databases.
Key capabilities include:
- Line-of-business-driven identity management
- Built-in connector to cloud-based Identity Provisioning service
- Reporting and auditing functionality
- Password management and employee self-service
- Business-aligned user access rights, roles, and privileges
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
Centralize identity management across applications and platforms. According to SAPinsider’s User Access and Identity Management for SAP S/4HANA benchmark report, a top goal for SAPinsider members is to centralize user access and identity management. Members are particularly worried about the proliferation of access points from the use of cloud-based apps. By centralizing identity management, SAP customers can improve security for cloud-based apps, reduce fraud, increase productivity, and speed up role setup, the report found. A centralized platform enables the organization to manage users of SAP and third-party applications in one place.
Shift identity management responsibilities from IT to lines of business. Putting password management, self-service portals, and workflow approvals in the hands of line-of-business managers improves productivity and security and reduces costs while freeing up IT to focus on more pressing issues. Business managers are also better at aligning roles and privileges with business processes rather than technical directory structures. They can quickly provision employees and business partners and make changes to access rights and privileges in a timely manner.
Integrate identity management with GRC to improve compliance with regulatory and audit requirements. In the previously cited benchmark report, SAPinsider members said that increasing government regulations were a driver for updating their organization’s identity management processes. By integrating identity management and GRC, multiple groups within the organization become involved in identity management. More departments with a stake mean that identity management gets a higher priority and more money within the organization, leading to improved processes and compliance. In addition, tighter integration enables mitigation of segregation-of-duties risks and a compliant user-provisioning process.
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Efficient Optimization for License Management with XitingSep 17, 2024 — SAP S/4HANA has transformed license management from transaction-based to user-determined permissions, complicating the process with new metrics and compliance needs, which necessitates continuous tracking and a clear authorization strategy, potentially aided by Xiting’s Authorizations Management Suite (XAMS) that offers tools like the Role Profiler and Role Designer for efficient license management.
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Centralized User Authentication and Provisioning for SAP LandscapesSep 12, 2024 — As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, managing user permissions through traditional Identity Access Management (IAM) becomes impractical and risky, prompting the need for centralized, automated solutions like SAP Cloud Identity Services, which enhance security and streamline identity processes in hybrid environments.
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Creating a Roadmap to Best Practice Identity and Access Management for Multinational Retailer – Case StudyJul 17, 2024 — The complexity of managing large numbers of locations and employees while maintaining effective security controls, identity theft, and user access authorisations is a constant challenge.
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Live from SAPinsider Studio: New SAP Solutions for Governance and SecurityOct 23, 2017 — Christian Cohrs, Product Manager of SAP Identity and Access Management, offers insights into new SAP functionality for governance and security. The conversation occurred during the Financials/GRC 2017 conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Topics covered include: Advice on secure approaches for cloud and on-premise implementations of SAP Identity and Access Management A mini dive into […]
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Identity and Access Management in Cloud and Hybrid SAP LandscapesApr 24, 2017 —
While ensuring appropriate user access to your enterprise systems has always been a difficult task, it has become profoundly more challenging as IT landscapes have grown more complex with changing user roles and new technologies. To help you meet this challenge, SAP provides a comprehensive set of solutions — SAP Single Sign-On, SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication, SAP Identity Management, and SAP Cloud Platform Identity Provisioning — for managing user identities and authorizations across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments. Learn about each of these tools and when to use which.
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End-to-End Identity and Access Management in the CloudOct 10, 2016 —
As businesses extend their technology deployments into the cloud, new security concerns arise as users start accessing business applications from an array of locations and devices. How do you protect your data? How do you ensure that users have access to the right information — and only that information? SAP addresses these concerns with two security services: SAP HANA Cloud Platform Identity Provisioning and SAP HANA Cloud Platform Identity Authentication. Learn how these services work together to improve access and identity management for businesses with growing cloud technology deployments.
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Secure Single Sign-On Across SAP LandscapesAug 4, 2016 —
As the number and diversity of applications, systems, and devices in any given business network continues to grow, secure user authentication becomes both increasingly challenging and increasingly important. SAP Single Sign-On enables seamless, simple, and secure authentication for almost every SAP and non-SAP system across a heterogeneous IT landscape, and version 3.0 extends its functionality to meet the needs of modern IT landscapes. Discover the new features included with version 3.0, including automated certificate management and expanded support for mobile devices.
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