Single Sign On/Integration Server/Workflow Enhancements Technology Update 11.5.10

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Single Sign On/Integration Server/Workflow Enhancements

Technology Update

11.5.10

1-2 Copyright © Oracle Corporation, 2004. All rights reserved.

Introductions

Brent Mosher, Senior Sales Consultant, Applications Technology, Rocky Mountain [email protected]

Jason Reedy, Senior Sales Consultant, Applications Technology, Northern California [email protected]


Topics

• Single Sign On

• Workflow Enhancements

• Integration Server

• Q & A


Single Sign On


Overview

• OracleAS SSO supports single sign-on for web (browser) clients

• OracleAS SSO allows web users who access OracleAS to sign in once, and be authenticated to multiple web applications including Oracle Portal, Oracle E-Business Suite, and non-Oracle applications

• These web applications are classified as either a “partner” or “external” application.


Product Features in 11.5.10

• Single Sign-On

• Forced Authentication

• Automatic Language Selection

• Linking Multiple User Accounts

• Support for Third Party Directories

• Extensible Authentication


Benefits

• Users– Improved productivity through quicker access to

applications– Improved usability with single user identity and credentials

and application personalization

• Administrators– Lower costs and improved accuracy in user provisioning– Better security through centralized management of

security policies and authorizations– Scalable administration through delegation– Single Source of Truth


The Way Things Work

1st Case: The first time a user requests an application URL

1. User requests Partner or Oracle Application URL

2. User gets redirected to the SSO server

3. User provides user name and password through Login form

4. Password verification

5. User gets redirected to the Success URL

with URLC token passed

SSO cookie set

6. Application Success URL sets session cookie and then redirects to the requested application URLClient

Browser

PartnerApplication

OracleApplication

User Repository(Local or External)

SSOServer


3. User gets redirected to the Success URL

with URLC token passed

The Way Things Work (cont’d)

1. User requests Partner application URL

2. User gets redirected to the SSO server

SSOcookiesent from browser

4. Application Success URL sets session cookie and then redirects to the requested application URL

2nd Case: User is already authenticated but requests another application

ClientBrowser

PartnerApplication

OracleApplication

User Repository(Local or External)

SSOServer


Product Dependencies

• Oracle Application Server 10g (OAS 9.0.4)


Third Party Integration Points

• Single Sign On

• Windows Native Authentication (Kerberos)

• Netegrity SiteMinder, Entrust, Thor

• X.509v3 Digital Certificates

• Other SSO systems via custom adapter

• Oracle Internet Directory

• Sun ONE /iPlanet

• Microsoft Active Directory

• Any LDAP directory via LDIF files

• Any other directory via custom DIP agent


Workflow Enhancements &Integration Gateway


Oracle Workflow

Embedded Process Management Engine of

• the Oracle E-Business Suite

• Oracle Application Server 10g Integration technologies

• Database/Application Server 10g releases


Business Benefits

Visual documentation of the business process

• Crosses organizational, company boundaries

• Analyze time and costs of entire processes with multi-dimensional analysis

Business processes will change

• You can only fix what you can see

• Enabling dynamic processes sympathetic to change

• Change business processes without changing code (Reduced cost of ownership)


Workflow Enabled e-business Suite

ERP

• Order Management

• Internet Procurement

• Self Service Financials

• Advanced Planning System

• Projects

HRMS

• Candidate Offer

• Career Management Reviews

Release 11i highlights

CRM– Call Center– Service– Contacts– Support– Marketing– iStore

And many more...


Traditional Workflow: Expense Report

Approved

ShortPay

AP Approval

Manager Approval

Server Validation Approve

Reject

Resubmit Report Abort

AP ApprovalProcess

End (Approve)

End (Reject)

Start DetermineWhich ProcessTo Start From

Manager(Spending)ApprovalProcess

RejectionProcess

Server SideValidationProcess

ShortpayUnverified

Receipt Items

AP Standard Expense Report Process


Oracle Oracle WorkflowWorkflow

11.5.10 11.5.10 EnhancementsEnhancements




UsabilityUsability


Worklist Access feature


Worklist Access feature


End User Usability Enhancements

OA Framework for User Interface

Embedded Framework Regions

• Include Product Specific Framework Regions in Notifications

• Simple Framework Regions in Email


Embedded Framework Regions


Automated Task Management

FYI Notifications

Response Required Notifications e.g.. Approvals

Browser based Oracle Workflow Worklist

• Automatically Notify Users of Tasks

• Sends Notifications to Roles (users and groups)

• Drill down capability (URL, Attachments)

• Escalation Management

• Vacation Handling


Automate Task Management


Worklist Configuration Capabilities

Control Notification Filtering, Column Display and Order


Choose Column Display and Order


Choose Notifications to Display


Notification Content


Notification MailerBased on Java Mail APIs, XML and JMS

Outbound SMTP, Inbound IMAP

HTML, Text, Summary formats

Managed & Configured using the Oracle Workflow Manager

Some customers send up to 20000 outbound emails/day


Electronic Signatures

What are Electronic Signatures

• Password Based E-Signatures (PSIGS)

• Digital Signatures (PKCS7 / X.509)

• Biometrics, etc.Why Electronic Signatures

• Government Requirements

• Contractual Obligations

• High Value Transactions

• Security Consciousness


End User Security Enhancements

Reminder! Responses via Notification Detail Page using e-mail requires login

• SEND_ACCESS_KEY feature obsolete

Notification Security




IntegrationIntegration


Applications raise events

Declaratively register

• Business Events

• Actions to Business Events (no coding required)

Actions include

• Launching a workflow

• Publishing XML to JMS

• Executing Code

Business Event System


Why?

Don’t hardcode your business actions or process to your application

Achieve maximum flexibility to make additions and modifications without changing code

Identifying business events already key part of the development process

Register Events, optionally register actions


Integration Enhancements

Java Raise API Simple Java Interface Supports Heterogeneous Subscriptions

– Synchronous / Asynchronous and Java / PL/SQL

Supports any serializable Java Business Object Payload

Supports Java Generate Function Independent of Event raise technology –

PL/SQL or Java Simplified User Interface

Java Business Event System


DatabaseEvent

Dispatcher

Java Actions

PLSQLApplication

JavaApplication

PLSQLActions

JavaEvent

Dispatcher

Common Registry of Actions

PLSQLWorkflow

Notifications

XML on JMS

Web Services

Asynchronous or Synchronous

Events

Events

Integration Enhancements

Business Event System Architecture


Integration Web Services Support

Exposes key integration points using API and XML Documents

Exposes OAG, cXML, Rossetta Net Business Object Documents as Web Services using the Workflow Business Event System

Based on open standards – SOAP, WSDL, XML


Oracle Oracle WorkflowWorkflowFuturesFutures


Oracle Workflow For Java (OW4J)

Currently Under Development

Next generation of Oracle Workflow

Java based Business Process Management

Integrated with Oracle JDeveloper Application Developer Framework

You choose whether your workflow is executed by the database or java engine (based on where your business logic is deployed)


Architecture Transformation

PLSQL Web Toolkit UI

Design Tool (Windows)

Database Repository

Java Engine PLSQL Engine

JSP UI

JDeveloper IDE (Java)

Web Browser (HTML)

Database or XML

Oracle Workflow OW4J

PLSQL Engine Java Adapter


Today…Oracle Workflow Builder


Future……OW4J Modeler

OW4J Modeler

• Applications developer tool

• Integrated with Oracle JDeveloper Application Framework

Based on XML

• Leverages Oracle JDeveloper Application Framework metadata services

Runs on platforms supported by Oracle JDeveloper


OW4J Modeler


OW4J Modeler

ComponentPalette

PropertyInspector

Process Window

ApplicationNavigator

StructurePane


Future…OW4J Self Service Modeler

OW4J Self Service Modeler

• Browser Based

• Process modeler for Business Analysts

• Optimized for simple use case scenarios (Notification messages editing & simple activity re-sequencing )

• Hosted environments


OW4J Self Service Modeler


Interface Interface Repository:Repository:An enabling An enabling technologytechnology

for E-Business for E-Business Suite Suite

Web ServicesWeb Services


E-Business Suite Interface Repository

Catalog of all E-Business Suite Interfaces

Open to Customers, Consultants, Integrators

• The Single source of truth for Integration projects

Powerful User Interface for searching and viewing available interfaces

Automatically kept in step with source code, via standard patching technology


Contains all E-Business Interfaces that a customer may wish to call or expose

• PL/SQL Procedure

• Java Class

• Java Service Beans

• XML Gateway Messages

• EDI Messages

• Interface Table

• Concurrent Program

• Workflow Process

• Web Service

• Enterprise JavaBean

E-Business Suite Interface Repository


EBS Integration RepositoryBrowsing

By Interface types

By Business Entity

By Product

By Product Family

By Standard


EBS Integration RepositorySearching

Simple Search

Name

Product

Product Family

Internal Name

Interface Type

Advanced Search

Business Entity

Scope

Status

Miscellaneous

Standard

Standard Spec


EBS Integration Repository What do I get…..

More info, faster, better

• Comprehensive and complete information

• Rapid Discovery of information

• Implementation timeline reduced (because you got the right info in the first place)

• Integration more efficient - found the right stuff with little effort


Integration Gateway Components


The Customer Data Hub

A single source of truth about your customers even if you aren’t using any of the E-Business Suite

Leverages E-Business Suite data model and data quality services

Siebel PeopleSoft

LegacyBroadvision

The Customer Data Hub


AQ&Q U E S T I O N SQ U E S T I O N S

A N S W E R SA N S W E R S


Thank You.