The world of business application is changing. More and more businesses opt for a cloud first strategy and shift to SaaS applications, not only from SAP. Thus, critical business services are provided not only from traditional, ABAP-based SAP environments anymore, but from a range of business services, which are loosely coupled and can be orchestrated flexibly. This evolution will destroy SAP siloes, sometimes earlier, sometime later – but probably faster than most expect. This impacts IT organization (no SAP silo organization anymore), it impacts the way business services are implemented and orchestrated (agile and as-a-service, with lesser lock-in), and it impacts the way business must deal with cybersecurity, access controls, privacy, and other requirements for their business services. Martin Kuppinger will talk about the changing requirements in managing identity, access, privacy, and security for business applications and how to address these in a way that prepares for the changing ecosystem of these services.
Description: Attend this session if you have ever struggled with managing SAP users and permissions. Learn how medical device provider, The Hartmann Group, was able to better control user provisioning and de-provisioning tasks for its SAP environment and beyond. The Hartmann Group manages approximately 15,000 identities (employees and third-party users) with multiple application accounts associated with each identity, including SAP. During this session, the company will share how they were able to improve security and reduce help-desk ticket volume by 60% (for identity assistance). Plus, they will discuss the relative ease with which they integrated the new SAP 4Hana with their identity management system 'right out of the box' and getting ready for Digital Transformation combining it with Service Now!
