Bring your own identity to SAP
Connect your corporate identity provider (IdP) to SAP for a seamless, secure login experience across the SAP ecosystem.
What is bring your own identity?
Bring your own identity (BYOI) is an innovative transformation designed to enhance interactions with SAP’s digital platforms by allowing customers and partners to connect their corporate identity providers with SAP. Our vision is to enable straightforward digital interactions, from initial contact to known user status, consistent across all touchpoints and cloud products. This initiative aims to meet the growing expectations for a modern, secure, and cohesive digital experience.
What
Integrate the customer identity and access management (IAM) solution into SAP’s ecosystem.
Harmonize identity management for SAP products and ecosystems with seamless navigation across SAP platforms
Transform SAP's identity management into a state-of-the-art infrastructure.
Why
Allow customers to manage their users' identities centrally, using their existing identity management systems.
Enable customers to manage authorizations across digital and product in a compliant and secure way.
Onboard customer identities once and use them across products and digital services.
Allow customers to manage multiple user identities .
How
Implement SAP Cloud Identity Services (SAP CIS) for a harmonized login experience.
Deliver an open IAM platform for customers to bring their own corporate identity.
Sunset SAP Customer Data Cloud as the authentication stack.
Clean up user backend processes.
BYOI program overview
Streamlined user management
Centrally manage user identities with your existing systems, simplifying onboarding, offboarding, and permissions.
Enhanced security
Use your trusted identity providers to meet your security standards, ensuring compliance with strict industry requirements.
Cost savings
Minimize operational expenses by streamlining identity management processes, reducing manual tasks, and boosting overall efficiency.
Improved user experience
Enhance user engagement and adoption with a consistent and familiar login across services.
Convenience
Users can log in to multiple services with one set of credentials, reducing the hassle of managing multiple usernames and passwords.
Reduced friction
Users can access new services instantly with their existing credentials, skipping lengthy registration and boosting adoption.
What is SAP’s approach to BYOI?
Bring your own identity is a central part of SAP’s broader transformation of authentication and access management. It allows customers and partners to modernize how users authenticate and manage access across SAP using their own IdP.
Our BYOI approach supports industry standards, integrates with leading identity providers, and enables centralized access control through your IAM solution and SAP’s Identity Provisioning service.
What to expect from bring your own identity
Pilot phase begins in Q4 2025
During the pilot, we’ll collect feedback and gain insights to help guide development. Rollout is planned for 2026.
Available for all external users
Customers and partners will be able to connect their corporate IdP to simplify and standardize access to SAP systems.
Resources to help you get started
Closer to launch, we'll offer comprehensive assistance through an onboarding wizard and professional guidance to support your implementation.
Want more information?
Get in touch with SAP for more details.