Future-Proof Your Identity Management

Is your organization facing the looming deadline of SAP IDM’s end-of-life?

In today’s dynamic digital landscape, granular access control is no longer optional – it’s essential for organizational success. Businesses need to protect sensitive information, adhere to changing regulations, and ensure users can access the tools they need, all while juggling complex IT systems. As companies grow, their old identity management systems, like SAP IDM, often fall behind and pose significant challenges and result in an increasing cost of ownership to address. These challenges can include scalability issues, a lack of support for modern cloud environments and SaaS applications, and difficulty complying with evolving security regulations. This can lead to security vulnerabilities, increased administrative overhead, and a hindrance to digital transformation initiatives.

As SAP IDM reaches end-of-life, this presents an opportunity for customers to transition to a more modern identity governance solution. Omada Identity Cloud offers a seamless migration path, allowing customers to leverage their existing expertise while gaining the benefits of a Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform built for the hybrid enterprise. This brief explores why Omada Identity Cloud is the ideal choice for SAP IDM users looking to navigate this transition and future-proof their identity management strategy.

The Limitations of SAP IDM

While the approaching end-of-life for SAP IDM presents a clear migration deadline, it’s important to recognize that its limitations extend far beyond this date. Even for businesses comfortable with on-premises solutions, SAP IDM struggles to keep pace with the evolving demands of IT environments. Let’s delve deeper into the inherent shortcomings of SAP IDM.

The Inability to Meet the Needs of Hybrid Enterprises

While SAP IDM served its purpose in a past era, it can no longer fully meet the demands of today’s dynamic IT landscape. Its architecture, designed for a time of on-premises infrastructure, lacks the agility and scalability needed for hybrid, often cloud-based environments. Businesses yearning to adapt and grow can find themselves frustrated by SAP IDM’s rigidity. Customizations, meant to bridge functionality gaps, often become complex and cumbersome to manage, resembling a tangled web of workarounds. Upgrading SAP IDM is no small feat either. This process can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, requiring significant staff investment and potentially delaying critical IT initiatives. This difficult upgrade process further hinders agility, making it difficult for businesses to adapt to evolving security threats and changing business needs. The regulatory landscape surrounding data security is constantly shifting, with new compliance requirements emerging at an ever-increasing pace. Unfortunately, SAP IDM struggles to keep up with this constant evolution. Its rigid architecture often lacks the flexibility to adapt to new compliance mandates, leading to security teams scrambling to implement manual workarounds or costly additional solutions to bridge compliance gaps. These stopgap measures add complexity to the system, further hindering manageability and increasing the risk of human error. Ultimately, SAP IDM’s limitations can leave organizations exposed to potential fines and reputational damage in the event of a compliance violation.

The Omada Identity Cloud Advantage

Omada Identity Cloud is the clear choice for organizations looking for a comprehensive, complete IGA solution. Omada’s cloud-native design delivers unmatched scalability and agility, empowering organizations to adapt to evolving security threats and compliance requirements. With its intuitive interface and user-friendly customization options, Omada reduces reliance on complex workarounds. This translates to a future-proofed identity management strategy that minimizes risk and enables businesses to thrive in the ever-changing digital landscape.

Our Differentiation

1. Full-featured IGA: Highest governance and audit capabilities in the industry with comprehensive audit and risk management features.
2. Ability to configure without code: Standards-based framework leveraging SCIM, OData, REST, SOAP, and SQL to enable fast connectivity of IGA with applications and the rest of the identity fabric
3. Enterprise-grade cloud management portal: Easily control production and non-production environments, monitor metrics, and control upgrades with ease.
4. Closed Loop compliance: Compliance workbench with a drill-down actionable dashboard and Control Policies that monitor the system, detect risks, and remediate issues.
5. Extensible Data Model: A completely customer-driven, composable data model to represent every identity under management.
6. Connectivity Framework: Standards-based framework leveraging SCIM, OData, REST, SOAP, and SQL to enable fast connectivity of systems.
7. 99.9% Cloud Uptime: Omada Identity Cloud has the highest availability for the SaaS Identity Governance market. Best Practices Based Deployment in 12 weeks Leveraging a best practice framework based on a proven record of successful implementations with emphasis to faster time to value.

Simplified Compliance

Omada Identity Cloud’s robust suite of features is specifically designed to streamline adherence to ever-evolving regulations. The Omada Compliance Workbench acts as the central hub, providing complete visibility into the compliance posture of all onboarded systems delivering valuable insights that can be actioned directly from the dashboard. This real-time view allows security teams to identify and address potential gaps before they become critical issues. Omada Identity Cloud goes beyond visibility with built-in controls and automation tools that enforce separation of duties (SoD) and ensure user access aligns with regulatory requirements. This comprehensive approach to compliance management reduces risk, minimizes the burden on security teams, and fosters a culture of proactive security within organizations.

Multi-Layered Approach to Security

Omada Identity Cloud enables organizations to build a robust security posture with a multi-layered approach. Granular access control policies ensure users only have the permissions they need, minimizing the attack surface. Advanced role and policy capabilities can ensure the right people have the right access for the right period of time and without configuration drift. Additionally, Omada allows administrators to easily detect and enforce SoD policies. This layered approach to security minimizes the risk of unauthorized access, data breaches, and insider threats, keeping sensitive information safe.

Automation Capabilities That Optimize Efficiency

Manual, time-consuming tasks like user provisioning, access requests, and lifecycle management have become a thing of the past with Omada Identity Cloud’s robust automation capabilities. Automated workflows handle repetitive tasks with precision, freeing up IT teams to focus on more strategic initiatives. Streamlined user onboarding ensures new employees have the access they need from day one, improving productivity and reducing reliance on the help desk. This automation translates to significant efficiency gains, allowing IT teams to do more with less and empowering organizations to operate at peak performance.

App Integration Made Easy

Omada Identity Cloud simplifies the integration process. Forget custom coding; Omada enables organizations to integrate with hundreds of business-critical applications and systems without writing any code. Pre-built connectors streamline the process, allowing businesses to easily connect to popular HR, SaaS, and CRM solutions. Omada Identity Cloud simplifies the journey to a unified identity fabric, strengthening security, streamlining administration, and accelerating digital transformation initiatives.

Omada Identity Cloud simplifies the entire identity lifecycle management process with features like automation capabilities, seamless integrations, and SoD policies.

Why Alternative IGA Solutions Fall Short

While some IGA vendors may appear attractive on the surface, their limitations can quickly become roadblocks for businesses seeking a truly comprehensive identity management solution. These limitations can not only hinder security practices but also restrict an organization’s ability to adapt to evolving needs and regulations. Let’s explore some of these limitations and see how Omada Identity Cloud offers a future-proof solution that empowers organizations to thrive. No Identities, Just Users One of the most critical limitations of simpler or light IGA solutions lies in their fundamental approach to identities. Unlike Omada Identity Cloud, which recognizes the distinction between user accounts, entitlements, and identities, these vendors treat everything as a simple “user.” This 1:1 mapping creates a significant roadblock for organizations that expect a many-to-one identity management model where they rely on a tiering model for access control. A proper tiering system assigns users to different access levels based on their roles and privileges. However, with a system that only recognizes users, implementing security measures like SoD policies becomes nearly impossible. This rigidity can lead to major headaches in access governance, ultimately weakening an organization’s security posture.

The Hidden Costs of Custom Code

While some IGA vendors tout customizability as a benefit, the reality can be a hidden cost nightmare. These solutions often require extensive coding for even basic configuration changes, creating a heavy reliance on a dedicated developer team. To make matters worse, some vendors enforce a costly review process for all custom code before deployment. This process delays implementation and adds another layer of financial burden that can quickly erode the supposed value of “customizable” solutions. Omada Identity Cloud takes a different approach. Its intuitive interface empowers administrators to configure the system without writing a single line of code. This user-friendly approach reduces reliance on developers, minimizes ongoing costs, and allows businesses to adapt their identity management strategy quickly and efficiently.

Not All SaaS IGA Solutions Are Created Equal

While some IGA vendors may offer a cloud-hosted deployment option, their architecture might not truly embrace the inherent scalability of the cloud. This can present a major challenge for businesses looking to grow. As an organization expands and access needs become more complex, some IGA vendors force customers to abandon the cloud entirely and revert to an on-premises deployment. This not only undermines the cost and agility benefits of cloud computing but also disrupts IT infrastructure and adds unnecessary complexity. Omada Identity Cloud, on the other hand, is built for the cloud from the ground up. This scalable architecture effortlessly adapts to changing needs, ensuring that a business’s identity management solution remains agile and efficient as the organization thrives.

Conclusion

With SAP IDM reaching its end-of-life, it’s time to embrace a future-proof solution. Omada Identity Cloud offers unmatched scalability and agility, empowering organizations to adapt to evolving security threats and compliance requirements. Intuitive automation streamlines IT operations, while effortless integration eliminates the need for complex coding. Don’t settle for outdated limitations. Migrate to Omada Identity Cloud and secure a future-proof identity management strategy.

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