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Deep and Shallow Use Cases

CA GovernanceMinder supports two modeling strategies. You can use one of these strategies in any given CA GovernanceMinder universe.

Shallow use case

A shallow use case involves role modeling based on business or organizational roles. The shallow use case enables you to analyze roles arising from the activities of your organization, and requires the product to import data from several different endpoints. We refer to this approach as “shallow” because the use case examines data from across your organization’s endpoints to a depth of one level of application privileges. For example, this use case can analyze privileges to resources in an ERP application, Active Directory, and several Unix servers.

Deep use case

A deep use case involves role modeling based on application roles. This strategy enables you to build your role model around user permissions within a single application. For example, you would use a deep use case to analyze permissions within your organization’s SAP system. This requires the product to import data from only one endpoint. We refer to this approach as "deep" because it views the data from a granular perspective.

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