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Your identity security partner for SAP’s unique complexity

SAP sits at the heart of the enterprise — supporting finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and other business-critical processes — where access decisions carry material operational and regulatory impact.
 
But standard identity management approaches rarely map neatly onto SAP. Its authorization model, segregation-of-duties requirements, and tight coupling to business processes demand a different approach.
 
We help you govern identity effectively within SAP while connecting it to your wider identity landscape. SAP access is controlled on its own terms without becoming isolated from your enterprise identity program or creating blind spots. The result is identity security that works for SAP — and for the enterprise around it.

What strong SAP identity management delivers for your business

Audit-ready SAP access

Audit-ready SAP access

Well‑designed SAP access ensures decisions are clearly owned and easy to evidence. Fewer SoD conflicts, reduced audit exposure, and cleaner entitlements follow — giving you confidence that controls are working as intended.

Streamlined SAP identity operations

Streamlined SAP identity operations

Integrated SAP identity management means faster onboarding and reliable offboarding across systems. Teams spend less time fixing access and more time supporting the business as manual handoffs, exceptions, and workarounds fall away.

A foundation for transformation

A foundation for transformation

S/4HANA migration, cloud adoption, and organizational change all affect how identity works in SAP. With the right foundations in place, access controls evolve alongside transformation rather than becoming a blocker or an afterthought.

Unified visibility and control

Unified visibility and control

A clear, consolidated view of SAP identity reduces blind spots and siloed decisions. You know who has access to what across your estate — making day-to-day oversight and long-term governance easier to sustain.

Customer success stories

Success Story

Standardizing SAP identity and access governance for a global cosmetics leader

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Setting global GRC standards

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IGA for SAP

Navigating the complexity of identity in SAP? We help you define and implement a governance model that fits your environment. Whether that means strengthening SAP-native controls, extending enterprise IGA, or connecting the two, we deliver with the specialist knowledge that SAP identity demands.

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Identity expertise inside SAP and beyond it

We combine deep SAP and enterprise identity expertise — advising, implementing, and supporting identity management that reflects SAP's role at the heart of your business.

Managed Service
Managed Service

We keep SAP identity solutions running effectively as systems and requirements evolve — monitoring configurations, maintaining integrations, and managing access reviews through migration, transformation, and organizational change.

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Advisory
Advisory

Gain clarity on your SAP identity challenges. We provide SAP-aware identity advisory to help you assess your current position and define a strategy aligned to business, risk, and transformation priorities.

Implementation
Implementation

Implementing SAP identity requires bridging technical and organizational realities. We design role structures, authorization models, and integration points while aligning SAP Security and Identity teams around a shared approach.

Your questions answered

How is managing identity in SAP different from standard enterprise IGA?

SAP identity does not follow standard enterprise IGA patterns. SAP uses its own authorization model where access is tied directly to business processes, transactions, and segregation-of-duties risks — requiring SAP-specific design and controls alongside enterprise identity governance. Organizations that treat SAP as just another connected application often find governance gaps emerging around SoD conflicts, emergency access, and privileged accounts.

What are the options for SAP identity management after SAP IdM end of life?

After SAP IdM, organizations typically choose between SAP‑native, enterprise IGA, or hybrid approaches. SAP Cloud Identity Services and SAP IAG provide governance within the SAP ecosystem. Enterprise IGA platforms such as SailPoint, One Identity, and Saviynt extend governance across SAP and non-SAP systems. SAP-aware tools such as Pathlock govern access from within the SAP environment outward. The right choice depends on SAP landscape complexity, existing identity investments, and whether governance must span SAP and non-SAP systems.

Can enterprise IGA platforms govern SAP access effectively?

Yes, enterprise IGA platforms can govern SAP access effectively when SAP's access model is properly accounted for. Effective governance depends on accurately representing SAP roles, authorization concepts, and SoD rules in the IGA platform, rather than treating SAP like a standard connected application.

Most enterprise IGA platforms connect to SAP through certified connectors. Without specialist configuration, however, governance is often incomplete.

When should organizations review or modernize their SAP identity approach?

Organizations should review SAP identity during major change or control stress points. Common triggers include S/4HANA or RISE migrations, SAP IdM replacement, organizational restructuring, audit findings, cloud adoption, and unresolved access ownership gaps.

Organizations planning SAP transformation programs should address identity governance before migration begins. Retrofitting controls after go-live is significantly more complex and costly than building them in from the start. 

Who is responsible for SAP identity management?

SAP identity ownership is typically shared across SAP Security teams, identity teams, and the business. SAP teams manage technical access and role design, identity teams govern provisioning and access certification, and the business determines who needs access and why.

Where SAP identity sits between these functions — particularly around provisioning workflows, access reviews, and privileged access — ownership is often unclear. Organizations that define clear accountability across teams achieve more consistent governance and fewer compliance exceptions.

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