The use of IT equipment and software has become an important part in the daily work of every employee. Thus, the quality of the available hardware and software can make a significant contribution to employee satisfaction. However, in many companies there is still a need to catch up, especially in the area of access management, which is often based on manual tasks and many analogue process steps. This can lead to long waiting hours and unstructured workflows.
In this paper, a case study is conducted within a multinational company, in order to investigate how access management can be improved through automation and digitalization, especially in terms of transparency and efficiency.
The methodological part of the paper describes the procedure for setting up an automated access management process in the case company, starting with the project definition, the analysis of existing processes and the design of the target process. The requirements needed to design the target process are elicited using requirements engineering methods like the Nominal Group Technique and Contextual Inquiries.
The result of the work is a functional requirements specification that describes a cross-plant and multinational access management process, which is ITSM software supported and mostly automated. The execution of the designed target process has significant potential for improving lead times and the transparency of processes and assigned rights.