This book gives you a practical and comprehensive overview of the design and management of authorizations in SAP. You’ll learn how to develop a meaningful authorization concept that meets statutory requirements and is tailored to your business processes and how those processes are implemented as authorizations in your SAP system. In addition you’ll gain insight into which tools and functions of the change management process in SAP play a role in designing and implementing an authorizations concept, and learn about SAP NetWeaver IdM, CUA, SAP Business Objects Access Control, and the UME. Finally, you’ll discover how to implement an authorizations concept  in various other SAP applications and components (SAP ERP, HCM, CRM, SRM and BW).