Identity access management (IAM) and compliance are becoming increasingly more important for the majority of enterprises. Nevertheless, most organizations today have only adopted ad-hoc solutions, leading to costly process integration, higher operating costs, and less effective information protection and compliance.

Sun and SAP have developed a joint solution, integrating Sun Java™ System Identity Management suite with the SAP GRC Access Control application, one of SAP's applications for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), to address IAM and compliance issues within enterprises that are powered by SAP solutions. This white paper provides two scenarios to describe how a complete end-to-end IAM solution can be configured after exploiting the benefits of the integrated product stack.