Introduction to SAP Access Control

Product Information

Product

SAP Access Control

Release

12.0 SP13

Based On

SAP NetWeaver 7.52 SP01

Documentation Published

June 2021

SAP Access Control is an enterprise software application that enables organizations to control access and prevent fraud across the enterprise, while minimizing the time and cost of compliance. The access control solution is an add-on to SAP NetWeaver, and works with SAP applications and other applications, such as SAP Finance, SAP Sales and Distribution, Oracle, and JDE. The access control solution provides a framework for managing application authorization functions.

Key Capabilities

Analyze Risk

  • Use a comprehensive, predefined rule set

  • Perform cross-system analysis for enterprise applications in real time or offline mode

  • Take action to remediate and mitigate access risks

  • Simulate changes to identify and prevent new risks

Manage Access

  • Self-service, automated access requests

  • Workflow-driven approval process

  • Embedded risk analysis simulations to “stay clean”

  • Automated provisioning to enterprise applications

Maintain Role

  • Rely on a configurable methodology for role definition and maintenance

  • Define roles in business terms and align with business processes

  • Analyze and optimize business roles

Certify Authorizations

  • Automate periodic user-access review

  • Certify role content and assignment to users

  • Automate review of mitigating control assignments

Monitor Privileges

  • Manage emergency access

  • Review user and role transaction usage details

  • Get proactive notification of conflicting or sensitive action usage

  • Customize dashboards and reports

Integration

  • SAP S/4HANA On-Premise

  • SAP SuccessFactors

  • SAP HANA DB

  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC) Payroll

  • SAP Process Control

  • SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance