Oracle Access Manager 10gR3 (10.1.4.3) is now certified for use with E-Business Suite Releases 11.5.10 and 12.1, using the new component, Oracle E-Business Suite AccessGate. For information on how to obtain, install, and configure this new component, see:

About Oracle Access Manager

Oracle Access Manager is Oracle’s next-generation identity and access management platform, and is a key component in Oracle’s Fusion Middleware Identity Management solution. It provides a set of authentication and authorization features, including support for single sign-on authentication, and integration with other identity management offerings such as Oracle Identity Federation and Oracle Adaptive Access Manager.

Oracle E-Business Suite AccessGate integration architecture

 

Oracle Access Manager Benefits

Previously, E-Business Suite only supported single sign-on capabilities through Oracle Single Sign-On Server. While it was possible to integrate with Oracle Access Manager, this still required Oracle Single Sign-On Server as an intermediary, and did not allow access to the full feature set of Oracle Access Manager.

With the release of Oracle E-Business Suite AccessGate, this is no longer the case. E-Business Suite AccessGate is a Java EE application that resides on a separate application server, and provides direct integration between E-Business Suite and Oracle Access Manager. This direct integration also opens the door to the full set of authentication features in Oracle Access Manager, as well as integration with other products in Oracle’s portfolio, such as Oracle Identity Federation or Oracle Adaptive Access Manager.

I’ll be posting another article in the future that describes more about how integration with Oracle Access Manager works through Oracle E-Business Suite AccessGate.

Oracle Access Manager vs. Oracle Single Sign-On Server

Our primary audience for this release of Oracle E-Business Suite AccessGate (and Oracle Access Manager) is users who have Oracle Access Manager deployed in their enterprise, and want to expand its coverage to include E-Business Suite.

E-Business Suite users that are currently integrated with Single Sign-On Server do not necessarily need to migrate to Oracle Access Manager, and, in fact, may not want to at this time, as not all products in the E-Business Suite technology stack support Oracle Access Manager today. Oracle Access Manager and Oracle Single Sign-On Server may be used together, however, and this, too, will be covered in more detail in a future article. For more details from the Fusion Middleware Identity Management team, see:

Prerequisites for Oracle E-Business Suite AccessGate
  • E-Business Suite Release 12.1.2, 12.1.1; or, E-Business Suite Release 11i 11.5.10 CU2 (with ATG RUP 6 or higher)
  • Oracle Access Manager 10gR3 (10.1.4.3)
  • Oracle Internet Directory 10gR3 (10.1.4.3) or 11gR1 Patchset 1 (11.1.1.2)
  • Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.1 or higher

Oracle E-Business Suite AccessGate is supported on any operating system platform that supports Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.1. For Oracle Access Manager and its components, such as WebGate, any operating system and HTTP server supported by it may be used for this integration.

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