SAP is entering the
identity-management market. The pricing on a suite of
programmes is currently being finalised.
David Keene, SAP’s chief technical officer, said the new suite
will be announced shortly. It is being tested by clients in the
airline and manufacturing industries and by the public sector.
Keene said SAP’s move into the identity management market is
driven by
clients who are feeling pressure from regulatory authorities to
tighten what he called their GRC (governance, risk and compliance)
performance.
The suite allows customers to authenticate users, permit them
secure access to information assets more easily, and to monitor
their activities in the underlying applications. The suite will be
available as a separate product as well as part of SAP’s ERP and
SOA offerings.
The suite is the result of SAP’s recent purchase of Maxware and
Outlooksoft. Keene said the Maxware elements use identity-related
information such as name and permissions from existing underlying
SAP and non-SAP applications such as sales-order entry or
purchasing so that the company can apply it quickly and easily to
other applications.
The Outlook Soft programs allow the company to monitor the
users’ activity on the underlying systems.
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