Sun Microsystems and Accenture announced signing of an agreement, that provides fine-grain security to SAP and other enterprise applications to outsiders.

According to the tie-up, the Accenture Secure SOA solution will allow organizations to open up their IT systems to third parties, like governments and partners, but still remain in control of access and authentication.

It uses a multifactor authentication for managing user access, so users are required to have two forms of identification, such as a smart card or biometric scan in addition to a password.

The Accenture Solution for Control and Compliance integrates Sun''s identity-management products with SAP's governance, risk and compliance solutions, allowing for outside applications to access the SAP database.