User Management via Web Services

Hi,
We are investigating building a user management application that will control user creation and management across a range of applications, including SAP ECC6 and BW. The idea is to use web services to interact with the systems. I have seen that a range of BAPIs exist for managing users (e.g. BAPI_USER_CREATE, BAPI_USER_CHANGE) - does anyone have any experience in using these BAPIs via web services that they would be willing to share?
Thanks

HI Colin,
We did that successfully. It was webservice/infopath based Interactive . net form which would do user management and also Workflow funtionality. In summary from my experience
- Initial cost would be cheaper, however ongoing maintainance on whole infrastructure should be considered.
- SAP BAPI/FM/webservice development was very easy
- Integration with Infopath was challange
- Fronted development was pain as you would need other people to do that for you
- Once operational, was very easy to managed
- Future enhancement was limitless
- Limitation of integration to other technology
- Should only be justifiable in absence of IDM solution
- Too much custom development
- Change management in SAP was easy (Transport, testing, QA etc) however Infopath and Frontend change Management was not easy
Let me know what other information you need. Finding BAPI's and designing in SAP is the easy part, you should think more about how you are going to deploy Webservice to end users.
However if your IT department has more bucks to spend, think about more longer term solution and towards IDM or product such as GRC etc.

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