SAP-certified Solution Improves Regulatory Compliance across Disparate
Enterprise IT Systems
WATHAM, Mass. - June 15, 2009 - Novell today announced the Novell®
Compliance Management Platform extension for SAP® environments, a
cost-effective solution for managing access and security challenges
across both SAP solutions and non-SAP systems. With Novell
provisioning capabilities, customers can integrate the identity and
security information in their SAP solutions with other business
applications to reduce the time spent on manual IT compliance. The
Novell Compliance Management Platform version 1.0 has recently been
certified by SAP for integration with the SAP BusinessObjects™ Access
Control application.
Together, Novell Compliance Management Platform and SAP BusinessObjects
Access Control provide complete visibility throughout the enterprise,
enabling control over network resources, ERP applications and other
mission-critical business applications. The integrated solution helps
organizations deploy an end-to-end compliant identity management
solution and address and solve IT and compliance-related issues in the
enterprise. Through the combined integration of Novell Compliance
Management Platform and SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, enterprises
can achieve the arduous goal of compliant provisioning in virtually any
environment.
The Novell offering enhances SAP customers’ ability to comply with
security mandates and government regulations by providing a unified view
of user activities across all applications in the enterprise. Now
customers using the SAP ERP application and SAP BusinessObjects
governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions can apply security
rules across SAP and non-SAP systems and then validate that those
policies are being enforced consistently. This saves time and money by
minimizing the duplication of effort and the potential for error.
“Compliance mandates are one of today’s top executive concerns.
Managing user access and demonstrating adherence to corporate governance
across various systems in an enterprise presents significant business
and IT challenges,” said Jim Ebzery, senior vice president and general
manager at Novell. “Novell’s Compliance Management Platform
leverages SAP’s strength in user validation and couples it with our
expertise in provisioning user access to form an integrated approach
that will help our customers meet these challenges head on.”
“With growing security threats and increasing regulatory oversight,
companies need seamless integration of their governance risk and
compliance management solutions across the entire IT landscape,” said
Brian Parker, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP. “Keeping a watchful
eye on the security and privacy of valuable data assets can be more
effective if a comprehensive approach which includes the use of
technology automation coupled with effective governance is taken.”
Novell Compliance Management Platform extension for SAP environments
combines user provisioning, access control and security monitoring
products from Novell into one comprehensive solution that integrates
with SAP BusinessObjects Access Control. The certified Novell Compliance
Management Platform 1.0 enables compliant-based user provisioning
functionality by integrating with SAP BusinessObjects Access Control via
web services.
“The Novell Compliance Management Platform is optimized to complement
SAP’s open strategy for IT governance, risk, and compliance,” said
Sanjay Poonen, senior vice president and general manager, Performance
Optimization Applications, SAP BusinessObjects Division. “Together we
can help offer our customers a new level of confidence that the right
controls are in place so only authorized employees have access to
sensitive business information.”
The Novell Compliance Management Platform complements SAP’s GRC
solutions to integrate identity, access and security information and
event management technology to provide a real-time, holistic view of all
events across an enterprise. This tight integration eases implementation
and creates a governance solution that ensures business policy becomes
an automated IT practice.
The Novell Compliance Management Platform extension for SAP
environments is the second deliverable resulting from the partnership
between Novell and SAP. SAP recommends SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as
a preferred platform for customers who want to deploy SAP applications
on Linux.* Novell ships SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Priority Support
for SAP applications, which offers customers a single support entry
point, from the operating system through the application, to streamline
resolution of support incidents, reduce complexity and lower the total
cost of ownership when running SAP solutions on top of a Linux operating
system.
For more information on the partnership between Novell and SAP, please
see www.novell.com/sap.
About Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most
interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management
software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity
and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of
partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments,
allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information,
visit www.novell.com.
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