Using AS 10g with EBS

What are the Benefits of Integrating AS 10g with Oracle

Applications?

Introduction

Presenter

DataRoad

Zanett

Housekeeping– Cell Phones– Q & A

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Agenda

Overview - Integration of Oracle Apps with AS 10g

Avoid Being Desupported

Security and Identity Management

Portal

Discoverer

Web Cache

11i Integration with AS 10g

11i comes with 9iAS 1.0.2.2.2

11i is certified with AS 10.1.2.0.2

11i integrates with a stand alone AS 10g

11i’s application tier continues to run on 9iAS 1.0.2.2.2

Architecture of 11i/AS 10g

R12 Integration with AS 10g

R12 comes with 2 AS 10g Oracle Homes– 10.1.2 for Forms and Reports Services– 10.1.3 for OC4J

For optional AS 10g components– SSO– OID– Portal– Discoverer

Avoid Being Desupported

Discoverer 4i has been desupported

About to be desupported– Portal 3.0.1– OID 3.0.9– Login Server 3.0.9

Access Management “Nightmare”

New employee requires the creation of multiple accounts in different applications

Disabling a user requires disabling numerous accounts

If user forgets password, then multiple resets are needed

Maintaining multiple password policy

Access Management Goal

Consolidated Enterprise Authentication

Centralized Password Policy

Simplify User Management

Happy Users with seamless authenticaion with Single Sign-on

Security and Id Management

Log on with SSO

Log off all applications at once

Manage user credentials in Oracle Apps

Manage user credentials in OID

Synchronize users between OID and Apps

Cont…

Integrate with 3rd Party SSO Services

Integrate with 3rd Party LDAP

Associate OID accounts with Apps

Integrate a Central SSO with multiple Apps Systems

Password reset is centralized

Security Documentations

CPU and Security Alerts– http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/alerts.htm

Best Practices for Securing EBS– Note: 189367.1

Enabling Label Security– Note: 234599.1

Using Transparent Data Encryption– Note: 403294.1

Log On with SSO

11i delegates user authentication to SSO

If with 3rd Party SSO, Oracle SSO delegates authentication to the 3rd Party authentication system

Chain of Trust– End users successfully logged in with 3rd

Party authentication system are recognized by EBS and Oracle SSO

Oracle Internet Directory

OID Groups cannot be mapped to EBS responsibilities

Passwords are not synchronized between EBS and OID

EBS uses passwords stored in OID

Users created in OID will be automatically added into EBS with APPS_OID_SSO_IDENTITY enabled

Use of 3rd Party LDAP

EBS cannot use 3rd Party LDAP directly

EBS needs to be integrated with OID 10g

OID 10g may be integrated with 3rd Party LDAP 3/X.500 compliant directories

Unidirectional– EBS -> OID -> AD– AD -> OID -> EBS

Bidirectional

Portal

Portal 10.1.4 is certified

Integrate Portal with multiple EBS via OA Framework Web Provider Integration

Add EBS portlets to custom portal pages

Display data in 11i portlets based on 11i responsibilities

Why use Discoverer 10g?

Automatic SQL Trimming

Faster

Memory Cap per user

Installation upgrades 4i End-User Layer to 10g

Accelerate with WebCache

Accelerate EBS responsiveness with WebCache

Cache and compressed frequently used items

Can act as proxy server or load-balancer

Other Benefits

Deploy AS 10g to Provide Enterprise Services for Custom Applications

References

Metalink Note– 186981.1– 415007.1– 233436.1

Q & A