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OCR: User Perspective Business Partner Application Developer An LDAP-compliant directory provides Organizations can create entries Perspective people with an easy way to find who in the directory for suppliers, Developers can use LDAP to or what they need. business partners, and others directory-enable applications. in the supply chain, enabling Prior to LDAP, developers had secure, manageable e-business no simple, industry standard scenerios. approach to providing directory services for different applications, Intemet Oracle Internet Directory Web browsers, e-mail, and other client applications LDAP submit LDAP message requesting information. 1. The listener process accepts LDAP messages and passes thern to the dispatcher process. 2. The dispatcher process sends the requests to an available server process. 3. The LDAP server process authenticates the user LDAP based on the security configuration (anonymous, simple. or strong), and connects to the Oracle5/ Database Server and submits the request. 4. Oracle8/ retrieves the directory entry. Oracle Intemet Directory server NotR LDAP ERP applications Internet Human resources database OracleSi application Last name Entry Entry New employee internet Internet E-mail messages First name Last nixte Access TOfts Administrator CIO Perspective Perspective Industry-standard directory services result Entry Administrators can use a single LDAP-based client in lower total cost of ownership because interface to manage multiple LOAP directories. Admins the directory information can be leveraged by and can also manage multiple directories through an integrated with other LDAP-compliant clients-Web LDAP-compliant metadirectory, which synchronizes browsers, e mail clients, administration tools, for information and manages access to all other directories example and server processes, such as an in an organization. Administrators can add new employees LDAP. and X.500 compliant metadirectory. in one place: the metadirectory, Prior to LDAP and metadirectory implementations, provisioning new users might have involved dozens of system administrators and hundreds of different applications.