Friday, 5 October 2007

SAP Enables Compliant Identity Management

SAP has launched Governance, Risk and Compliance Web services that enable the seamless integration of identity management software solutions with SAP GRC Access Control....

SAP has launched Governance, Risk and Compliance Web services that enable the seamless integration of identity management software solutions with SAP GRC Access Control.

Based on open standards and built on the SAP NetWeaver platform, these new Web services from SAP open up the full capabilities of SAP GRC Access Control and allow identity management software vendors to tightly integrate their respective solutions, providing customers with a single set of tools to efficiently and cost-effectively manage user identities, enforce corporate security policies and ensure compliance with regulatory mandates, a SAP press release said.

For this solution has tied up with its cross Atlantic partners IBM and Sun Microsystems and said it is responding to the challenges faced by CFOs and CIOs in proving to auditors that they are effectively controlling their financial and IT-related risks by combining complete, automated, end-to-end compliance controls with the full range of identity management functionality.

In addition to the integration efforts currently underway by IBM and Sun, SAP is also using these new Web services to integrate its SAP NetWeaver Identity Management component, created following SAP's acquisition of identity management software provider MaXware earlier this year, with SAP GRC Access Control to provide an end-to-end solution for compliant provisioning across heterogeneous IT environments, the press release added.