User Administration and Authentication

SAP Asset Intelligence Network uses the authentication mechanisms provided by SAP ID Service. The user management itself is specific to SAP Asset Intelligence Network and does not rely on any external tools.

Authorization and Trust Management in the Neo Environment

Information about user administration and authentication that specifically applies to SAP Asset Intelligence Network is provided in the following topics:

User Management

This topic lists the tools to use for user management in SAP Asset Intelligence Network.

User management for SAP Asset Intelligence Network uses the SAP BTP as well as making use of SAP ID Service facilities.

For an overview of how these mechanisms apply to SAP Asset Intelligence Network, see the sections below.

User Administration Tools

SAP Asset Intelligence Network uses the user administration provided by the SAP BTP to manage Users. System Administrators can add, remove and edit users. They can also provide/revoke multiple pre-defined roles to users.

SAP Asset Intelligence Network provides three predefined roles per application:

  • READ

    Provides read authorizations to the selected user on selected application.

  • EDIT

    Provides read and write authorizations to the selected user on selected application.

  • DELETE

    Provides read, write and delete authorizations to the selected user on selected application.

Integration into Single Sign-On Environments

This topic describes how SAP Asset Intelligence Network supports Single Sign-On mechanisms.

SAP Asset Intelligence Network supports the Single Sign-On (SSO) mechanisms provided by SAP BTP in conjunction with SAP ID Service. SAP Asset Intelligence Network also allows customer trust accounts to be integrated with SAP BTP to facilitate SSO using their own trust system.

Authorization and Trust Management in the Cloud Foundry Environment

This section describes the authorization and trust management in the Cloud Foundry environment for SAP BTP.

For more information, refer to the following sections under Start of the navigation pathSAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP)  Next navigation step Security Next navigation step Authorization and Trust Management Next navigation step Authorization and Trust Management in the CloudFoundry EnvironmentEnd of the navigation path in the help portal:

  • Authorization and Trust Management Overview

  • Administration: Managing Authentication and Authorization

  • Developing Security Artifacts