SAP Access Control Reviews & Insights

Score8.7 out of 10

448 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for SAP Access Control are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Automation and Integration: Users have expressed high satisfaction with the automation and integration features of the workflow-based provisioning process. Specifically, they find the HR trigger automation and integration with HR systems to be extremely beneficial for streamlining access management tasks efficiently.

Efficient Risk Analysis: Many reviewers have highlighted the product's impressive capability to conduct thorough risk analysis of Segregation of Duties risks within workflows. This functionality significantly enhances the system's efficiency and reliability, providing users with valuable insights to mitigate potential security threats effectively.

Role Management and Access Control: Users value the automatic role management of users integrated into the product. The enterprise-wide risk analysis offered by the system ensures robust access provisioning processes, enhancing overall access controls within organizations.

SAP Access Control Reviews

18 Reviews

SAP Access Control

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 20, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The SAP Access Control module helped us to work on User SOD (Segregation of Duty) cleanly without hampering any running processes. It helped us clean roles, which is very helpful from an audit perspective. It also helped us a lot with process control and Risk Management due to unauthorised access to critical tcodes.

Pros

User access requst Management through work flow
Risk Management due to SOD
Audit & complaince proof

Cons

Details reporting object wise
Resource consuming while running the background job
Dashboard can be improved

Likelihood to Recommend

SAP Access Control is very good in terms of Audit and compliance. It will provide you with all the required reports in one click.

Rajiv Thakur

Sr. Manager IT in Information Technology at Mankind Pharma Ltd (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

SAP Access Control review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 2, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using SAP Access Control for access request management and SOD analysis. It helps us enable access governance and minimize the risk by doing UAR (User Access Review).

Pros

Access Request Management
Privilege/ Emergency Access Management
Access Request Analysis

Cons

So far looks good. It would be better if SAP Access Control make connection with Cloud and non SAP Solution

Likelihood to Recommend

Assigning role based on some department / logic automatically

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Complete Suite for Access Management, But User Experience Could Be Improved

Rating: 9 out of 10

December 10, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAP access control to manage access requests for SAP applications on-premise, including: - access requests - risk analysis

Pros

Access provisioning
Access request management
Risk Analysis

Cons

Out-of-the-box connectivity to cloud solutions
Out-of-the-box connectivity to non-SAP applications
User Interface

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well suited for on-premise SAP applications. For non-SAP and cloud applications, additional solutions are needed with additional licenses, like SAP IAG or pathlock connectors.

Verified User

Director in Finance and Accounting (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

SAP Access Control - No clear Roadmap

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

November 16, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Access control is used to monitor access risk controls and Privileged user management within the global company.

Pros

Reliable
Trusted by internal and external auditors
SoD analysis

Cons

Reporting
Connectivity non SAP Cloud systems
User Interface
Simplicity on the GRC FF log review
Connectivity with SAP PC

Likelihood to Recommend

Appropriate:
Simple on premise systems SoD.
Firefighter escenarios.

Not appropriate:
Hybrid environments.
Mitigation controls, require PC to work properly.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

12 years of experience

SAP Access Control - The right solution for SAP on-premise access management

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 16, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use if for general access management, privileged access management and access risk analysis.
SAP Access Control helps us to ensure that no accesses are provisioned without the due approvals and prevents/identifies which SoD risks are currently assigned to users.
Regardind Privileged Access Management, we use it to have detailed reports about usage details.

Pros

Access Provisioning
Access Risk Analysis
Privileged Access Management

Cons

Movers/Leavers management
Approvers/Owners review
Access Management for SAP Cloud solutions without additional middlewares
Access management for non-SAP solutions

Likelihood to Recommend

SAP Access Control is the best solution to manage access on SAP on-premise systems.
It needs to evolve when it comes to SAP Cloud and non-SAP applications

Marcelo Monsores

SAP Security/GRC Team Lead in Information Technology at Perfetti Van Melle (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

13 years of experience

User Provisioning Simplified!!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

August 21, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAP Access Control for automatic user provisioning and ensure access to terminated employees is no longer available. We have it integrated with Service now to reduce the manual effort for the creation of users and also to prevent fraudulent access to SAP applications integrated via SAP Access control.

Pros

Provisioning user access
Automatic role management of users
Analyze enterprise-wide risk

Cons

Integration with third parties
Composite role risk assessment
Better interface for fire fighter access provisioning

Likelihood to Recommend

It is an extremely useful product when you have a tight-knit landscape integrated with SAP. It is also very helpful to reduce the manual effort of user provisioning when the GRC system is integrated with several SAP applications like S/4 and HANA. It is not really helpful in scenarios where multiple ERP systems are involved.

Varun Vankam

Engineering Technician in Research & Development at Autodesk (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

User system controls that work

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 23, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to control all access and give roles to users

Pros

assigns roles
restricts access to information

Cons

Allow for easier additions to more areas when needed

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for larger companies but need to be worked on for smaller organizations that have more people doing multiple roles.

Verified User

Manager in Finance and Accounting (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Best tool to manage users in large scale with out audit ramifications in long term

Rating: 10 out of 10

July 30, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using SAP access control for 8 plus years with a lot of automation which is adopted for hr integration hr triggers, automation of workflows for provisioning of access.

Pros

Workflow based provisioning process.
Hr trigger automation and integration with hr.
Risk analysis of sod risks is inherent in workflows which makes it a good product.

Cons

Firefighter log review logs should be made more detailed and the extent of log depth is limited.
Product integration into cloud products is limited even with iag integration as it does not have firefighter functionality for some cloud products like S4.

Likelihood to Recommend

Appropriate for SAP hrs hierarchy integration and can have multiple hierarchies of org structures adopted as alternative workflow support. Cons of access control are the logs of firefighter usage are still limited in depth and does not evolve to adop more cloud products which are coming at a plaster pace than the ac product as such.

Jayakrishna Moola

Lead Analyst in Information Technology at National Grid (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

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SAP Access Controls Rock!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 21, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use SAP Access Control to leverage ARA, EAM, and process controls. It has addressed user provisioning and certification.

Pros

SOD and RA Analysis
Role and Manager Approval
Access Recertification

Cons

For detailed role provisioning for orgs and subprocesses
More streamlined risk analysis and mitigation

Likelihood to Recommend

Access Controls is good for organizations with strong security teams and governance to leverage AC for SOD and RA. It is not too good for largely complex organizations with nuance SOD and RA risks.

Verified User

Employee in Finance and Accounting (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

SAP Access Control Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 21, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use SAP Access Control for solving the user creation and termination process, which helps the service desk team. They can spend more time on solving other user security issues than on user termination and the onboarding process. Access control is currently being used for User Access Recertification as well.

Pros

Onboarding users
Terminating users
Additional access

Cons

More integration with AD

Likelihood to Recommend

Managing approval workflows for getting approvals from managers, and role owners and avoiding the manual process of emailing them and asking them for approvals. SAP Access Control is easy to set up with no code development.

Verified User

Manager (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience