SAP Identity Management pros and cons

It provides basic automatic user administration and role provisioning to save time.

What's most valuable in SAP Identity Management is that it's easily an out-of-the-box solution for connectivity with SAP applications. We do not have to do any customizations, and this makes the solution very compatible with most SAP applications. SAP Identity Management is also very user-friendly.

The most valuable features of SAP Identity Management are business roles and automated user provisioning.

A lack of startup connectors to different systems, and could have better connectors for SAP IDM.

What needs improvement in SAP Identity Management is its compatibility with third-party applications. We'd like to get connectors or plugin settings to make it easier to manage other applications, whether SAP or non SAP applications. As SAP Identity Management is not compatible with non SAP applications, some of the clients are looking for other IDM applications such as SalePoint and Saviynt, so this is an issue we've observed in the solution.

SAP Identity Management can improve risk analysis and authority checks.