Novell has 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, these solutions 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, as well as address and solve IT and compliance-related issues in the enterprise.

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 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.