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SAP IdM to Microsoft Entra ID Services 

Strengthen your identity governance and streamline access controls across Azure and SAP environments 

Overview 

SAP Identity Management (IdM) has been a long-standing SAP product to manage access to critical SAP systems.  SAP plans to sunset SAP IdM in 2027 and discontinue maintenance in 2030. To address the gap, SAP and Microsoft have teamed up leverage Microsoft Entra ID as a replacement for SAP IdM.   

 

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Accelerate Your IdM Transition

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Entra ID, previously Azure AD, is a cloud-based identity and access management service with authentication and adaptive access across thousands of application sets.  

Protera’s Microsoft Entra ID Solution enables you to rapidly architect, implement, and manage Entra ID to address the gap in services, modernize identity management, and increase access security across your SAP and non-SAP applications. 

Protea’s IdM Entra ID Solution will enhance your security and compliance, simplify system management, and modernize your identity access governance. Protera’s solution incorporates automated workflows, pre-configured integrations, and “zero trust principles.”  

Protera’s solution incorporates automated workflows, pre-configured integrations, and zero trust principles 

Assess & Design  

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SAP Identity Discovery

Uncover the full potential of your identity infrastructure with a structured assessment of your current SAP IdM architecture—gather key data, analyze functionality, and map capabilities to Microsoft Entra for a seamless modernization journey.

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SAP Identity Strategy

Analyze SAP IdM use cases alongside key services like SuccessFactors, S/4HANA, SAP BTP, CIS, and NetWeaver to design a tailored migration model that aligns with business goals and maximizes platform value.

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Seamless IAM Transformation

Leverage Protera’s deep expertise across SAP, Azure, and Security to architect an identity transformation plan that minimizes disruption and ensures a smooth, transparent rollout for end users.

Sample Architecture

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Set Policies & Migrate 

Define access policies for SAP applications in Entra including prerequisites, access timeframes, separation of duties, constraints, and exception handling. 

Identify opportunities to streamline databases, align systems, and eliminate obsolete functions to ensure a smoother transition. 

Fully realized, wave-based sequencing for onboarding your SAP applications to Entra using IAG best practices. 

Modernize IAM 

With integrations to SuccessFactors, ECC, and SAP Cloud Identity Services (CIS), Microsoft Entra enables enterprise-wide IAM modernization: 

  • Identify current and planned IAM use cases in your IAM modernization strategy. 
  • Analyze the requirements of those use cases and match those requirements to the capabilities of Microsoft Entra services. 
  • Determine timeframes and stakeholders for implementation of new Microsoft Entra capabilities to support migration. 
  • Determine the cutover process for your applications to move the single sign-on, identity lifecycle, and access lifecycle controls to Microsoft Entra. 

 

Migration Scenarios 

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Integrate with Enterprise Modernization 

Coordinate SAP IdM migration with ancillary IT initiatives. Develop an enterprise-wide IAG strategy and how Entra meets broad needs. Take advantage of the IAM refresh to clean up and remove outdated integrations, access rights or roles, and consolidate resources. 

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Phased Approach 

Adopt a phased rollout such as first migrating an end-user self-service password reset scenario, then moving a provisioning scenario, etc. The order depends on IT priorities, impact on key applications, end user readiness, or application constraints.  

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SAP IdM Identity Store to Entra Tenant 

An SAP IDM Identity Store is a repository of identity information, and a Microsoft Entra a tenant is an instance in which information about a single organization.  Organizations that have Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, or other Microsoft services will already have a Microsoft Entra ID tenant that underlies those services to facilitate the IdM migration.   

Microsoft Entra Management for SAP

Strengthen your identity governance and streamline access controls across Azure and SAP environments. 

SSO Management for SAP Applications
Improve SAP user experience with single sign on for SAP applications using SAML 2.0 for systems such as Fiori, BTP, and Netweaver. 
MFA and Conditional Access
Propagate zero trust enforcement via adaptive access controls for SAP, incorporating policies for location, device compliance, and real-time risk scores. 
Integration with SAP GRC

Integrate Entra with GRC to streamline SAP application access, enforce SAP segregation of duties and privileged access management, and automate user provisioning. 

Monitoring and Compliance
Incorporate additional Microsoft toolsets including Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft Purview for enhanced identity threat detection, auditing, and compliance reporting 
Risk Mitigation
By addressing potential issues before migration, you minimize the risks associated with a move to the cloud, making the transition smoother and less disruptive to your operations.

Determine your best modernization plan with Protera

Book a 1:1 session with our enterprise cloud experts to get your modernization plans underway and achieve business goals.