Beta Systems Software Offers Latest SAM Enterprise Identity Manager

Beta Systems Software (BSS) announced the release of the new SAM Enterprise Identity Manager from the Gartner IAM Summit.

The next generation of SAM maps existing business processes and organizational workflows with the Identity Access Management. SAM Enterprise Identity Manager builds a bridge between business and IT services.

Beta Systems explained that when using business process workflows, SAM enables you to optimize approval processes in an easy and transparent manner, enforce deputy rules and, at the same time, improve user performance. Also, the user helpdesk task load is greatly reduced, resulting in substantial cost savings. The latest version of SAM Enterprise Identity Manager enables companies also to establish automated lifecycle management of IT user roles, identities and access rights and align them with their organizational requirements.

"Identity and access management is moving into a new era of program maturity, and the enterprise demands more of mature programs. The business is not interested so much in how identity management is done, rather in what it can do to help with complex business processes and access accountability. Those vendors providing solutions that can bridge the gap between making IT services work more efficiently for the enterprise and actually providing value to the enterprise in solving real identity-related problems will find a ready audience," said Earl Perkins, Research Vice President at Gartner Analyst Group, responsible for Information Security and Privacy | Secure Business Enablement.

Beta Systems further stated that SAM Enterprise Identity Manager offers extensive control options for managing conflicts arising within and among security-relevant business processes. It reduces the cost of access management and setting up mutually exclusive access rights to meet confidentiality requirements. SAM Next Generation makes it possible to define segregation of duties for roles. This Role-based access control feature guarantees that no mutually exclusive access rights are assigned to the same user(s) managed by the role. With SAM, this "Segregation of Duties" (SoD), is performed automatically for applications.

"One of our highlights is the new integrated business process workflow. These are user-oriented request workflows designed for easy and friendly handling. SAM provides companies with a simple and cost-effective means of capturing and mapping your workflows. The workflows are continuously monitored and can be flexibly aligned with organizational changes at any time," said Harald Podzuweit, General Manager of the Business Lines DCI & IDM at Beta Systems Software.

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