Authorizations
Teaming up with an external security implementation partner comes with a higher guarantee that the authorizations part of the project receives the required attention and care. There is less risk that the authorizations are neglected because of time constraints in the functional part of the project. This project configuration has a considerable positive impact on the quality of the overall implementation and the quality of the authorizations. Because it is our core business, axl & trax offers a proven methodology. We enable business people to understand the SAP authorizations down to the required level (tasks) and combining ability with the technical aspects of the SAP authorization profiles. We offer experience, existing documents, presentations, etc. available to the company. On average, saving up to 60% of maintenance costs is no exception and can be vouched for by customers statements. For many companies we already have setup a worldwide, cross-SAP® system authorization architecture and/or implemented a full automated monitoring cycle. For other companies we have analyzed the authorization setup.
axl & trax can define the SAP Security Architectural design to ensure that you know the needs before you start projects ... cross-sap system ... since business requirements should be applied to all systems. We apply the RBAC (Role Based Access Controls) model to ensure consistency and easy connection to Identity and Access Management systems.
Authorizations Implementations and Redesigns
axl & trax ranks among the worldwide leading authorization concept architects and offers an extensive scope of customized GRC solutions. The company has a unique implementation methodology and authorizations concept and combines a sound insight into business requirements with profound technical know-how. axl & trax also has a proven track record for providing global authorization concepts for full SAP® technology platforms (R/3, ECC, HR, BW/BI, APO, CRM…) both on new and existing systems. axl & trax should therefore be your first choice GRC solutions partner to set up new authorizations or to redesign existing ones and to make sure that your authorizations concept is and stays sound and secure.
Design of SAP roles: to make happen what is needed. At axl & trax we can ensure a fully automated roll-out of the permissions in all underlying SAP systems once we know the business requirements. The time gain is enormous. axl & trax has a proven track record for providing global authorization concepts for full SAP technology platforms (R/3, ECC, HR, BW/BI, APO, CRM...) both on new and existing systems to make sure that your authorizations concept is and stays sound and secure. axl & trax has the expertise to translate the technical specificities of each system into one and the same, overall authorizations concept (composite roles, single roles, naming conventions, etc.) increasing significantly your overall transparency and maturity level. Eager to constantly improve our performance, we developed an authorization concept with a grouping of 17000 transactions codes into template roles at sub-process level and also a SOD conflicts matrix directly usable by any company.
Authorizations Upgrade Support & Roll-outs
It is evident that with every new SAP® release your actual authorization settings must be upgraded, but at times the authorization mechanism itself is drastically changed by SAP® (f.e. SAP® BI 7.0). Because these adaptations can be pretty complex, axl & trax should be your preferred partner in order to make sure your authorizations are fully in line with the upgraded version and to take full advantage of the new features incorporated in the new release.
With every new SAP release your actual authorization settings must be upgraded. This is especially true when the authorization mechanism itself is drastically changed by SAP. axl & trax ensures that your authorizations are at all times fully in line with the upgraded version and that full advantage is taken of the new features incorporated in the new release. Again this is done fully automated. We guarantee you an upgrade of 26.000 roles in 2 days!
Business Reorganizations
Businesses are more and more confronted with mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing and other reorganizations. This will always impact the access rights to the IT systems. The RBAC model with the necessary tooling used ensures that we can adjust as well your enterprise roles as well as your permission roles in a full automated way.
Day-to-Day Support
axl & trax can help you organize and staff your authorizations support for the full SAP technology platform (R/3, ECC, HR, BW/BI, APO, CRM...) with services that include user administration, security and authorizations requests and maintenance, system and authorizations monitoring (including technical monitoring, critical accesses and SOD analysis), etc. Our day-to-day support service line takes authorization support and maintenance to the next level, helping our clients to increase value from IT investments. Our support line goes beyond traditional day-to-day maintenance: we help organizations to achieve high performance thanks to selecting one of our specialized and qualified axl & trax consultants who best suits your organization.
Quality assurance during SAP® authorizations implementations and redesigns
In cases where a company decides to perform most of the work themselves or in cases the company wants an independent view on the work done by another third party, the expertise of axl & trax can be hired to ensure good implementation practices are applied.