{"id":42608,"date":"2024-07-30T12:57:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T10:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xiting.com\/?p=42608"},"modified":"2026-02-15T16:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:53:29","slug":"xiting-central-workflows-xcw-meets-sap-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xiting.com\/en\/news\/xiting-central-workflows-xcw-meets-sap-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Integration Made Easy: Xiting Central Workflows (XCW) Meets SAP Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Discover our innovative approach for the seamless integration of Xiting Central Workflows (XCW)<\/a> into the SAP Cloud. Our new service pack provides a fast and effective way to manage and automate the ID lifecycle in combination with our XCW and SAP Cloud Identity Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Status Quo<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our solution XCW is known as a lean tool for managing and documenting user and authorization changes in the AS ABAP and S\/4HANA environment. It offers multi-stage procedures for requesting and approving changes, which are processed using SAP standard workflows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The simple integration into existing systems offers considerable added value for organizations that want to manage their SAP landscape efficiently and securely. XCW centralizes the administration of user master data and role assignments, supports role ownership concepts, deputy rules and multi-level escalations. SAP HCM, Active Directory (read-only via LDAP) and external tools can also be used as source systems. SAP roles are also checked for critical authorizations and SoD conflicts via XAMS CRAF. Operation is convenient via SAP GUI and Fiori interfaces.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To the “Xiting Central Workflows” solution<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Idea<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With Service Pack 5, XCW expands its functionality to include business roles, which serve as containers for technical roles from various ABAP systems. Requests for these roles can be made via the UI5 front end and the SAP GUI and go through an approval process that is checked by the business role owner and, if necessary, the risk manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our approach uses the XCW central system (CDL) or the existing CUA system as a central source system to enable the management and provisioning of user accounts and authorization roles for On-Prem ABAP & S\/4HANA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are now also applying this principle to integrate SAP cloud systems in combination with SAP Cloud Identity Services. In the SAP on-prem systems, the authorization roles typically include specific access rights for the SAP applications. However, there are also “empty” authorization roles that do not have their own access rights, but merely serve as substitutes for authorization roles in other systems.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These roles are implemented because a direct implementation is not possible due to different authorization concepts in the cloud world. In the XCW central system\/ZBV, the ownership of these roles is therefore defined by user accounts, supported by workflows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Find out more about the new XCW release<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Overall Picture<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The combined use of XCW with SAP Cloud Identity Services offers significant advantages. By providing all SAP Cloud users from a single source of truth (SSoT) for user data – the XCW central system\/ZBV – centralized management is made possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All desired users and their role assignments are provisioned from this system into the Identity Directory (IdDS) of SAP Cloud Identity Services and are therefore available in the Identity Authentication Service (IAS). This is done using the Identity Provisioning Services (IPS), which keeps the users and role assignments synchronized. The IPS is connected to the XCW central system\/ZBV via the SAP Cloud Connector.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All users that are managed for SAP cloud applications (SaaS) and BTP subaccounts\/services in XCW are mapped using a dummy role concept, e.g. with the prefix Cloud_xxx. These roles are assigned to users via XCW business roles. The application, release and assignment are based on the established and customizable approval processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These roles and all users assigned to these roles are then mapped in the SAP Cloud Identity Services, creating corresponding user accounts including groups in the SAP Cloud Identity Services of the Identity Directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The user accounts and their role assignments are provisioned from the Identity Directory to the specific tenants\/services in the SAP cloud via additional IPS jobs. The logic is controlled by naming conventions for the role names. This enables the centralization of authentication processes for all SAP cloud applications and creates the basis for the automation of user lifecycle processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start a new era of hybrid identity management with us and benefit from centralized, efficient management of your SAP and cloud systems.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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