Ensuring Data Protection in the SAP Business Information Warehouse: A Case Study

Abstract

Today’s business environment is highly vulnerable to private data disclosure considering the permanently increasing amounts of data used in the business and decision-making processes. Ever more measures for data protection are applied by companies regardless of their activity area or size, some of them implying great costs and efforts. This article presents a series of protection measures available in the SAP Business Intelligence and operational systems, in form of authentication and authorizations procedures implemented for an application designed for the efficient management of employees’ data and time scheduling.

Keywords

• data protection
• data warehousing
• data modeling
• analytical system
• authorization concept
• authentication system