Hendrik Winkler, Autor bei consiness GmbH & Co. KG

The End of an Era – Part 4/4: On-Premise Solutions

by Hendrik Winkler July 1, 2024October 17, 2025No Comments

In the final part of this article series, we take a closer look at on-premise solutions.Although the general trend clearly points toward cloud services, traditional solutions remain widely used within the SAP ecosystem.The boundaries, however, are fluid — alongside the two solutions presented in this article, there are also on-premise variants of products such as Omada and IBM Security Verify (introduced in Part 3).Conversely, One Identity has long since moved beyond the …

The End of an Era: The Future After SAP IDM – Part 1/4

by Hendrik Winkler April 19, 2024October 17, 2025No Comments

In a groundbreaking strategic realignment, SAP is consistently focusing on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model and corresponding cloud solutions in order to gradually phase out traditional on-premise systems. This underscores SAP’s commitment to agility and scalability in the cloud, offering customers a contemporary IT infrastructure. In the course of this transformation, SAP Identity Management (IDM) is …

The End of an Era – Part 3/4: Cloud-Services

by Hendrik Winkler March 12, 2024October 17, 2025No Comments

Part 3 of this article series focuses on the market for cloud-based IGA solutions (Identity Governance & Administration) — the new buzzword for managing identities and authorizations (IAM).This market is so densely populated that a complete evaluation of all available options is practically impossible. There are highly specialized analysts such as KuppingerCole and Gartner who can undoubtedly provide more comprehensive and detailed …