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Deep and Shallow Use Cases

Deciding on your role modeling strategy affects how you map endpoint objects to CA GovernanceMinder objects when connecting to endpoint systems. You can use CA GovernanceMinder to manage your organizational role model in the following two ways:

• You can analyze your roles based on business roles. This concept allows you to design your role model around the roles in your entire organization. In this scenario, the data import into CA GovernanceMinder covers many endpoints of various types, but it is less granular. This defines the shallow use case.
• You can analyze your roles based on application. This concept allows you to design your role model around privileges you want to give to users per application, for example, creating roles around your SAP application. In this scenario, the data import into CA GovernanceMinder covers one or a few endpoints of the same type, but is more granular. This defines the deep use case.

  Note: The deep use case is only supported with the CA IAM Connector Server.