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31 May, 2006

UNIFY Solutions announces Real Time Provisioning and Continuous compliance for SAP HR and Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS 2003)

Unify Solutions Managing Director, Mark Goodall, today announced that its Real Time SAP provisioning and continuous compliance solution for MIIS would be released in 2006 calendar year. The UNIFYConnect SAP HR Management Agent (MA) for MIIS enables organisations to achieve continuous security and compliance using their SAP HR application as an authoritative source for Identity and Role based provisioning.

As the HR System is the natural source of identity data in an organization, the ability to connect to SAP HR is essential for any SAP-reliant organization to usefully implement Identity and Access Management.

Together with MIIS, the UNIFYConnect SAP solution provides a Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) approach for enterprise wide provisioning based upon the Microsoft platform. UNIFYConnect SAP allows organisations to create a feature rich SAP provisioning service, based upon MIIS which will provide the following unique functionality:

• Event Driven: For both security and compliance reasons, the MA must be and is event driven. This means the real-time driving of SAP HR employee creates & modifications through the MIIS based solution, resulting in a real-time identity management solution. Change information in SAP HR, and it will immediately flow through to relevant connected systems. When used in conjunction with UNIFYNow, UNIFYConnect SAP MA provides real-time, event based provisioning to the MIIS enterprise.
• Organisational structure information: The MA natively provisions Organisation Structure information from SAP HR either in line with the employees, or as a separate connector.
• Hierarchy Management: Ensures that the employees provisioned from SAP HR are provisioned in the correct order (managers before subordinates) in all cases. This functionality is vital for maintaining organisation structure referential integrity in an Identity Management solution.
• UNIFYConnect shields SAP from performance impacts, and minimizes the interaction of the identity management solution with SAP. Standard MIIS solutions are often quite heavy on an HR system, sending large queries too frequently. UNIFYConnect answers those queries itself, and also encourages a changes-only model.
• Future events: Future starts, terminations, and other events in SAP HR are handled efficiently and automatically.

The UNIFYConnect series builds on Microsoft's approach to Identity Management with MIIS. As Gartner Group has noted, Microsoft's approach is focused on directly solving enterprise access management problems - authentication and authorisation as well as user account management - rather than creating middleware to manage complex authorisation environments.

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