SAP announced, that the solutionSAP Identity Manager (IDM) will reach the end of life in 2027, but with an extended maintenance period until 2030. This imposes on organizations using SAP Identity Manager, to search for alternative solutions.
One Identity meets the strict requirements set by the company SAP, which proves that the solution One Identity Manager can be useful to organizations not only when migrating from SAP IDM, but also by providing support for various other SAP products, including SAP FieldGlass, SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Cloud Identity Services. Through the SAP-certified ABAP connector, One Identity ensures compatibility with the data model of the integrated SAP products as approved by the organization.
SUPPORT BEYOND SAP S/4 HANA
One Identity offers support, not only on SAP S/4 HANA, but also on each SAP system that supports ABAP or SCIM, including SAP IDM and SAP SuccessFactors. Customers of SAP, using One Identity Manager can take advantage of all provided advanced capabilities, including identity lifecycle management (Identity Lifecycle Management), identity management (Identity Governance), control of attest and control of separation of duties (Attestation and Separation of Duties – SoD), application management (Application Governance), management based on behavior to(Behavior Driven Governance), compliance and audit reports, access to self-service and other
CERTIFIED CONNECTORS FOR HYBRID ENVIRONMENTS
One Identity Manager comes with a set of certified endorsers and methods for connection, which allow the creation of reliable and scalable opportunities for identity governance (IGA) to hundreds of systems. Customers, using SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Concur, SAP Ariba and othersolutions, hostedin the cloud, can also manage them with One Identity Manager.
COMPREHENSIVE SAP ECOSYSTEM SUPPORT
One Identity Manager also supports SAP IAG (or in some cases replaces it ) and directly integrates SAP applications BusinessTechnology Platform(SAP BTP).
SAP Cloud Identity Services are in the core of SAP’s IAM strategy, and are based on industry standards such as Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), OpenID Connect (OIDC), X.509 certificates and System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM). Each solution for identity management should be supported theseprotocols and integrate easily with SAP Cloud IdentityServices.
The use of certified integration methods by organizations is critical, as is ensuring that local workloads are supported.
Organisations should trust suppliers and partners, with proven experience in migrations from SAP IDM to the selected solutionfor identity management.
The following set of graphics will show an S/4 HANA system being connected Identity Governance Administration (IGA) solution of One Identity.
1. SYSTEM SELECTION
2. INTEGRATION WITH ONE IDENTITY MANAGER
3. USER AND DATA SYNCHRONIZATION
4. ADDITIONAL SYNCHRONIZATION DETAILS
Integration with SAP NetWeaver AS Java allows the connection of systems based on SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java (AS Java), such as SAP IDM and User Management Engine (UME), through custom integration.
With the add-on “Compliance” for SAP, One Identity Manager given the opportunity to verify of the rules for compliance and monitoring of the regulatory require, mentswhich can to be integratedand with SAP GRC.
SAP Access Control can be inte grated throuth different ways and on different levels. This integration can be use d as engine for working processes and provisioning of resources (system for allocation of obligations). One Identity Manager also features a built-in connector for the SAP HANA database, which givetheoppor tunitytoma nagi ngtheuse rsi denti ti esin thedata base SAP HANA.
One Identity Manager’s integration capabilities are not limited to integration with SAP IAG but also include direct integration with SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) applications. A standard connector based on SCIM is provided for this purpose, via the Starling Connect service, which enables integration via SAP Cloud Identity Services. Other cloud-hosted solutions such as SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Concur, and SAP Ariba, can also be managed with One Identity Manager, ensuring end-to-end management for customer environments.
One Identity Manager will help ease the transition from SAP IDM to SAP Cloud solutions, by supporting ABAP, SCIM, and other systems, that customers have in their environments to help them meet their organization’s security requirements.
