Bring Your Own Identity: SAP's Strategic Transformation of Identity and Authentication Management

[ingemarg]

We are excited to announce the foundation for Bring Your Own Identity (BYOI) by Identity Renovation, an innovative transformation designed to enhance interactions with SAP's digital platforms. 

Our vision is to enable straightforward digital interactions and processes for customers from their initial contact to known user status, consistent across all digital touchpoints and cloud products. This approach will be implemented without the constraints of scaling, performance, compliance, and security issues inherent in legacy identity management systems.

Customers and partners adopting Bring Your Own Identity will gain complete control over user management, ensuring smooth integration and increased security. They can tailor Identity & Access Management (IAM) setups to their specific needs while ensuring compliance and mitigating risks of data breaches in a cloud-ready environment.

This initiative represents a strategic enhancement designed to improve interactions with SAP's digital platforms by allowing customers and partners to connect their Corporate Identity Providers (IdPs) with SAP. Our development teams are actively working on its implementation to make authentication more efficient across all SAP touchpoints, so stay tuned for updates.

To facilitate this transition, we are optimizing our Identity & Access Management (IAM) systems for seamless registration and integration of Corporate Identity Providers. This will enable customers and partners to use their existing corporate credentials, providing unified access to both corporate applications and the SAP ecosystem.

We are undertaking these comprehensive changes to meet the growing expectations of our customers and partners for a modern, secure, and cohesive digital experience with SAP. This effort is crucial not only to ensure up-to-date security but also to provide smooth user interactions and build trust across our digital platforms. The goal is for customer identities to be onboarded once and utilized across all SAP products and digital services, enabling secure and compliant management of authorizations.

Implementing Bring Your Own Identity is a detailed process. To ensure a smooth transition, we are planning a pilot phase with a selected group of pilot customers starting in Q3 2025. Following the pilot, we aim for a global rollout later in 2026. This phased approach will help us refine and perfect the system to better meet the needs of all our users worldwide.

The target audience for the global rollout includes all customers and partners equipped with their own corporate Identity Provider and prepared to embrace Bring Your Own Identity.

Find more information about the topic on YouTube: How Identity Renovation will Simplify User Authentication at SAP Touchpoints in the Future

Join our Continuous Influence Session to share detailed ideas and requirements on Bring Your Own Identity, S-user Management, and SAP Universal ID, ensuring clarity and effective review by SAP. Please note that an S-user is required to submit improvement requests.

[PhillipButts]

Is this the correct video for this topic? It doesnt seem to be related.

[Cuneyt]

Yes, that's the correct video which provides you the Youtube session we offered to explain the background and details on what it will offer to customers and partners as benefits. 

Why did you think it's not related?

[PhillipButts]

There is nothing in the first few minutes that mentions Identity Renovation or User Authentication

[Cuneyt]

Well, Identity Renovation is an internal project name, and its all about enabling to connect your corporate IdP for logging into SAP ecosystem in future. This is meant by Bring-your-own-identity. There is a lot things mentioned in the video, also authentication. But thanks for the feedback, which shows us that you obviously expected to directly go into details. The reality outside is a bit different though, especially these technical topics most times need to be well explained upfront so many readers also understand on whats the point. We‘ll try to make a best fit all approach with our communications. Again thanks for the feedback.