SAP NW Identity Management

Score8.1 out of 10

8 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAP NW Identity Management?

SAP NetWeaver Identity Management is the software acquired by SAP from MaXware for identity management (IdM).

Categories & Use Cases

Identity Management

ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)
The ability to login to the system once, gaining access to all systems without the need for logging in again
Category average: 9
Password Management
Self-help capabilities the help users recover forgotten passwords, etc.
Category average: 8.6
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning
Capabilities for creating user accounts based on roles, group memberships and business processes
Category average: 8.4

Multi-Factor Authentication
Using multiple, independent components to gain access
Category average: 8.5
ID Risk Management
Identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks with procedures to minimize, impacts of unplanned consequences
Category average: 8.3
ID Management Workflow Automation
Automated sequence of tasks to simplify processes
Category average: 8

Amitkumar Shinde

Application Architect - SAP Security in Information Technology at IBM Canada (10,001+ employees employees)

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.

Return on Investment

SAP IDM has the huge potential to minimize risks arising out of disorganized identity management within an organization. As all identities are managed centrally, there is very little room for manipulation of an identity.
As this solution has the ability to integrate with SAP GRC, risk analysis becomes mandatory before any access provisioning takes place.
As the solution is automatic, hiring to employee exits is managed with a minimal margin of error.

Other Software Used

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