SAP Provisioning

What is Provisioning?

Provisioning is the process of setting up IT infrastructure as well as the steps necessary to manage access to data and resources and make them available to users and systems. There are several types of provisioning:

• Server provisioning is the process of setting up a server to be used in a network based on required resources.
• User provisioning is the process of granting users access rights and authorization privileges for accessing email, databases, networks, and other IT services.
• Network provisioning includes setting up a network to be accessed by users, servers, containers, and devices.
• Service provisioning includes the setup of a service and managing the data related to it.

What is Provisioning?

Provisioning is the process of setting up IT infrastructure as well as the steps necessary to manage access to data and resources and make them available to users and systems. There are several types of provisioning:

• Server provisioning is the process of setting up a server to be used in a network based on required resources.
• User provisioning is the process of granting users access rights and authorization privileges for accessing email, databases, networks, and other IT services.
• Network provisioning includes setting up a network to be accessed by users, servers, containers, and devices.
• Service provisioning includes the setup of a service and managing the data related to it.

What is SAP Provisioning?

SAP provides several provisioning tools, including

• SAP Identity Management has a provisioning framework that includes templates to use to connect SAP systems to SAP Identity Management and to set up jobs and processes for provisioning users and the corresponding assignments.
• SAP Landscape Management includes automated provisioning features for system and database clone, copy, refresh, or rename, as well as for application servers, diagnostic agents, and virtual hosts.
• SAP SuccessFactors has a provisioning tool that consultants and partners can use to set up modules for a customer.

Further Resources for SAPinsiders

Brighthouse Financial Accelerates User Provisioning Cycles. This case study explores how Brighthouse Financial moved from a manual user provisioning process using an access request feature in SharePoint to automated user provisioning using SAP Access Control. The company also employed Saviynt’s Identity Governance and Administration solution to integrate user provisioning with non-SAP applications.

How to Select the Appropriate SAP HANA Data Provisioning Tool. In this article, Haran Vinayagalingam, Practice Lead, SAP’s HANA Services Center of Excellence team, relates that SAP HANA has several data provisioning tools, such as SAP Landscape Transformation, Direct Extractor Connection, and SAP Data Services. Vinayagalingam explains how these tools can be engaged to load SAP HANA for different use cases and critical implementation steps.

Manual Provisioning of Non-SAP Roles Using SAP Access Control. In this article, Kavitha Nareshetty with Capgemini details how to minimize multiple access requests by configuring SAP Access Control to manually provision access for non-SAP applications. She relates that the manual provisioning process can be enabled following three steps: configure file path settings, configure SPRO settings, and set up the role upload process.

Vendors that can help with SAP provisioning include: Capgemini, NetApp, and Saviynt.