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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2015
Sap SE, Walldorf, DE;
Bernhard Drabant, Muehlhausen, DE;
Bernhard Drittler, Walldorf, DE;
Roland Lucius, Darmstadt, DE;
Martin Schmid, Korntal-Muenchingen, DE;
SAP SE, Walldorf, DE;
Abstract
Embodiments manage user authorization to access multiple grouped software applications, via a catalog mechanism. Functionality of related software is divided into semantically meaningful catalogs, representing tasks or sub-processes within a business scenario. These catalogs represent a unit of functionality utilized to structure work and authorization. Functionality and authorizations are associated to system entry points, and assigned to catalogs bundling applications and services. Responsibilities may be defined statically or dynamically in terms of rule-based access restrictions to data structure (e.g., business object) instances. Catalogs may be assigned to business roles, and business roles assigned to users. Based on such assignments, corresponding authorizations are generated and linked to users at compile or deployment time. At run time, access decision and enforcement is granted based on these authorizations and restrictions. Decision and enforcement points are associated with the system entry points within software applications belonging to catalog(s).