SAP IDM: A Robust Solution For Identity Management
Rating: 9 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
SAP Identity management manages organization identities centrally with great amount of flexibility and efficiency.
Compared to conventional SAP solution of central user administration (CUA), SAP IDM (version 7.2/8.0) delivers great amount of benefits like -
1. Availability of connectors for non SAP application identity management,
2. Modular/granular access management in the form of context based business role definition.
Pros
- In my previous organization, to achieve the granularity of access based on organization restrictions, we implemented enabler role-based security roles. Provisioning the enabler roles through the SAP GRC was a great challenge (realistically improbable). Here came the SAP IDM to our rescue. It has a peculiar feature of context-based business role provisioning feature.
- Customized context & its association with security roles & user HR attributes, give us unique ability to achieve granularity of access provisioning.
- SAP IDM integrates with the SAP HR system and identity management becomes automatic.
Cons
- SAP Identity management should come up with connectors for almost all not SAP applications, which will enable the use of SAP IDM as a one-stop solution for organizations' identity management.
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP Identity Management manages organization identities centrally with a great amount of flexibility and efficiency.
Compared to the conventional SAP solution of central user administration (CUA), SAP IDM (version 7.2/8.0) delivers a great number of benefits like:
1. Availability of connectors for non-SAP application identity management,
Compared to the conventional SAP solution of central user administration (CUA), SAP IDM (version 7.2/8.0) delivers a great number of benefits like:
1. Availability of connectors for non-SAP application identity management,
2. Modular/granular access management in the form of context-based business role definition.
3. It can be integrated with the SAP HR system for making entire user identity management automatic.
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Amitkumar Shinde
Application Architect - SAP Security in Information Technology at IBM Canada (10,001+ employees)
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8 years of experience