Introducing SAP Cloud Identity Services — Lesson 3: Provisioning Sources, Targets, Transformations, and Mappings

Learning Objectives

• Explain how Provisioning Sources, Targets, Transformations, and Mappings supports secure cloud identity services.
• Complete the workflow and produce a reviewable identity provisioning and mapping evidence pack.
• Evaluate the condition where a transformation removes an attribute required to determine application access and select a supported response.

Detailed Topics

• source systems: business purpose, responsible roles, and SAP objects that establish the operating scope.
• target systems: configuration choices, master-data dependencies, and determination logic shaping the result.
• transformation rules: transaction flow, status behavior, integration effects, and reviewable operational evidence.
• attribute mappings: control points, exception paths, testing needs, and release criteria protecting the outcome.

Instructor Demonstration

The guided walkthrough connects source systems, target systems, transformation rules, attribute mappings to the intended business outcome and control evidence. Learners see the expected SAP behavior, what belongs in identity provisioning and mapping evidence pack, and how to respond when a transformation removes an attribute required to determine application access.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled activity covering source systems, target systems, transformation rules, attribute mappings and preserve the result in identity provisioning and mapping evidence pack.

1. Define the expected business outcome and the SAP objects that should produce it.
2. Perform the lesson scenario, retaining before-and-after evidence for every material decision.
3. Test the exception without altering unrelated settings or data, then explain the first failure point.
4. Apply proportionate remediation and complete a focused regression check before approval.

Scenario Analysis

• Which SAP object, rule, record, or process step most strongly influences Provisioning Sources, Targets, Transformations, and Mappings?
• What evidence separates configuration, data, authorization, integration, and timing causes in this scenario?
• How should the identity provisioning and mapping evidence pack be approved, retained, monitored, and updated after handover?

Troubleshooting Guidance

Start at the earliest point where expected behavior differs from the observed result. Review process sequence, relevant data, configuration, authorization, integration, and timing as separate hypotheses. Treat “a transformation removes an attribute required to determine application access” as unconfirmed until settings, documents, logs, reports, and focused retesting support the cause.

Validation Checklist

• Required roles, structures, data, settings, and dependencies for Provisioning Sources, Targets, Transformations, and Mappings are present.
• The identity provisioning and mapping evidence pack links each conclusion to objective and reviewable SAP evidence.
• Normal processing, the stated exception, integration behavior, and access boundaries were tested.
• Corrections, retest criteria, ownership, monitoring, documentation, and operational handover are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Provisioning Sources, Targets, Transformations, and Mappings, explain the resulting SAP behavior, and defend the outcome through identity provisioning and mapping evidence pack.