Protected: Single Sign-on for SAP Solution-based Environments

Microsoft® Active Directory®-based Authentication to SAP Applications

SAP® applications deliver a lot of value to organizations—but they also add to password management headaches. On top of the passwords they already have, users have to remember and enter an additional password for each SAP application they need to do their jobs—which hurts productivity, increases calls to the help desk and invites security risks. Having additional identity repositories to manage hurts IT productivity as well.Single sign-on (SSO) can eliminate all of these problems. Microsoft® Active Directory provides central authentication and authorization services that deliver SSO—but only for Microsoft Windows®resources. Fortunately, there’s a way to extend that proven AD authentication and authorization to SAP solutions: Authentication Services, a part of the One Identity product portfolio.

The problem: multiple passwords and identities Each SAP solution-based system provides its own user and password repository. Therefore, users of SAP applications must have a password specific to each instance of the SAP solution in use and enter them in order to access the applications. Those passwords are in addition to those they might already have for accessing other IT systems in the environment.