SiAM Compliance Suite

The functions and tasks within a company getting more complex to an increasing extent. Organizational changes, cost reductions, International Accounting Principles and the implementation of internal monitoring systems are constantly gaining in importance.

Business processes are to be adjusted to legal requirements. Users and the corresponding authorizations have to be monitored.

The challenge

The authorization requirements getting more and more complex. Consequently, the corporate administration and monitoring functions are becoming expensive and time consuming. There are limited ways to address this issue within a standard SAP system. Therefore, it is difficult for administrators and users to perform their tasks in a productive and cost efficient manner.

The Solution: SiAM

With SiAM the administration and maintenance of users and their User Rights are administered efficiently. 

SiAM is designed on a modular basis and can be adjusted to the project specific requirements immediately. With the tried and tested reference model corporate requirements can be configured in a short period of time. Regardless of whether 100 or 10,000 users are to be administered,  all tasks and functions are performed in a transparent and cost effiecient manner. Due to workflow supported change requests the maintenance is simplified considerably.

SiAM consists of the subsequent Modules:

• Role Generator for the creation and administration of users and their user rights in a SAP system.
• User Management assigning Roles to users promptly and easily.
• Compliance Control critical User Rights are checked promptly and easily .
• SiAM Sentinel management of emergency authorizations.
• Profiler the access SiAM via the Internet.

SiAM Reference Model.

In many companies, users and authorizations are administered through SAP basic. SIVIS developed a licensed Reference Model in order to avaoid an uncoordinated creation of Roles and User Rights.

In the Reference Model all information and corporate functions as well as the appropriate User Rights are combined. The entire expertise is based on previous projects and experience.

This database is provided in the SiAM data model. Consequently, the administration of authority objects are streamlined and simplified. The definition and adjustement of functions are supported automatically. Due to the methodological approach the reference model is reconciled with the respective departments in a goal-oriented manner.

In comparison with other methods, the investment in time is minimal and success is guaranteed. The Reference Model being customized to the clients needs is ready for use in a short period of time. The data can be directly imported into the SAP system.

Well proven application.

In the subsequent arears SiAM is used successfully, inter alia:

• User and Access Management in SAP systems
• Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Compliance, Segregation of Duties (SOD)
• Role Generation
• Out-of-the-Box Reference Model for Authorization Concepts
• Workflow for Change-Requests and User Management

SiAM Version Administration

In comparison to a standard SAP system, in SiAM a new version is created with every Change Request. The status and all former changes are logged in the system. Therefore, older versions can be recovered completely.

Reading of change documents and manual resets to older version levels are not necessary any more.

Approval of Workflow

In SiAM all changes are embedded in an Approval Workflow Process. If a Change occurs, an approval has to be applied. As long as the approval has not been provided, the executed changes are in an inactive mode. Changes which are subject to an approval are:

• Role Changes
• User Changes
• Role Assignments
• Audit Results