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#1 Alternative to SAP Access Control

SAP Access Control wasn’t built for today’s hybrid landscape — cloud apps, Fiori, BTP, and non-SAP systems fall outside what it can govern. With end of maintenance approaching in 2027, Pathlock is the platform SAP customers are moving to — built for where SAP is going, not where it’s been.

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Business Value

Modern GRC for the
S/4 Era

The SAP landscape has changed fundamentally — cloud apps, Fiori, BTP, SuccessFactors, Ariba, and dozens of non-SAP systems are now part of how your organization runs. SAP Access Control was designed for a world where everything lived in a single on-premise ERP instance. That world no longer exists for most enterprises.

Instead of patching gaps with manual workarounds and costly consulting engagements, you can consolidate access governance into one platform built for the landscape you actually have today.

60% of organizations have already moved components of their GRC stack to third-party solutions.
PATHLOCK DIFFERENCE

Here’s What You Are Missing with SAP Access Control

Use Case (ERP and Cloud apps) Pathlock
Cloud		 SAP Access Control
(ABAP and SFSF)		 SAP IAG
Enterprise Edition
Risk-Aware Provisioning
User Access Reviews
Fine-Grained SoD Risk Analysis
Risk-Focused Certifications
Transaction Monitoring – Usage Logging
Certifications – Transaction/Usage Insights
Change Logging
Application Emergency Access Management
CCM – Automated SoD and Access Controls
Vendor Engineered & Supported Connectors w/Content

Feature comparison based on publicly available information as of February 2026.

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Analyze Access Risks and SoD Violations

Get a clear view of every real SoD conflict across your applications — not just theoretical violations — and know exactly where to focus remediation before it becomes an audit finding.

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Automate Compliant User Provisioning

Evaluate every access request against your risk rules before approval — no manual checks, no SoD conflicts quietly granted during the chaos of go-live.

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Accelerate Risk-Aware Access Certifications

Review user access with usage data and risk context already built in — so every certification decision is informed, defensible, and audit-ready without last-minute scrambling.

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Control Privileged Access with Confidence

Time-bound elevated access, log every privileged action, and ensure nothing granted during migration quietly persists as a standing privilege after go-live.

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Proactively Manage Roles and Reduce Risk

AI-powered role mapping translates your existing access to S/4HANA's new authorization model, surfaces inherited conflicts before they're provisioned, and gives you a role design you can defend on day one.

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Your SAP Access Control Replacement Plan — Built by Its Original Creators

What You Get

  • A personalized review of your current App GRC landscape
  • Clear recommendations to consolidate tools and reduce cost
  • A roadmap to automate access, risk, and compliance
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Work directly with Pathlock GRC experts

Susan Stapleton
  • Helped launch SAP Access Control
  • Led over 160 enterprise GRC deployments
  • Built access governance programs and audit frameworks for global organizations
Chris Radkowski
  • Worked with over 500 companies to strengthen SAP security
  • Deep expertise in SoD remediation, role design, and technical controls
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Why Pathlock?

From Legacy GRC to Future-Proof Governance

As S/4HANA adoption accelerates, access governance becomes more complex, and traditional tools like SAP Access Control struggle to keep up. Pathlock unifies governance into a single platform with built-in capabilities for access risk analysis, compliant provisioning, certifications, emergency access (EAM), and role management—giving you a scalable, future-ready approach to controlling access across your entire landscape.
Pathlock automates SoD and sensitive access risk analysis with customizable rulesets, ensuring quick time-to-value and reducing risk and costs.
  • Cross-app capabilities with 100+ connectors
  • Out-of-the-box ruleset content
  • Intuitive UI for reviewing and managing reported risks
With Pathlock’s risk-based compliant provisioning, you assess risk before access is granted — not after. Reduce manual effort by up to 90% and save over $300,000 in administrative and consulting costs.
  • Risk-based flexible workflows
  • Configurable individual portals (employee, third-party, etc.)
  • Context-rich reviews that incorporate HR attributes and “Did Do” access insights.
Automate risk-based, exception-driven access certifications that focus reviewers only on what matters. Reduce review effort by up to 80%, save up to $288,000 annually and improve review decision quality.
  • Context-rich reviews with HR, risk, and usage data (20–30% revocations vs. 2-3%)
  • Exception-based, dynamically scoped campaigns
  • Out-of-the-box, cross-application certification workflows
Modernize your Firefighter process with predefined emergency access, automatic expiration, and risk evaluation before access is granted. Pathlock provides continuous AI-based activity monitoring and a unified EAM view across ERP and cloud applications — eliminating shared IDs and manual log reviews. Reduce emergency access governance effort by 50% and save up to $150,000 annually with audit-ready oversight.
  • Predefined emergency access with automatic expiration
  • Comprehensive risk evaluation before access is granted
  • Unified EAM visibility and detailed “before & after” activity logs across ERP and LoB apps
Leverage Pathlock’s visual role builder and role manager to assess audit readiness, evaluate existing roles, and design new compliant roles with simulations and “what-if” analysis.
  • Dynamic role management with cross-application capabilities
  • Streamlined role creation and optimization with automated suggestions
  • Advanced analytics for role impact and compliance monitoring
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Discover how organizations worldwide use Pathlock to ensure timely provisioning and safer access decisions through continuous risk simulation and SoD-aware certifications.
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“Fine-grained risk reporting allowed us to pinpoint actual violations and take immediate action, which reduced unnecessary manual reviews.”

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— Claudio Minoia
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