Figure
2-2 shows a blue circle with five sets of enterprise applications connected
to it by double-headed arrows. Four of these sets are red, indicating Oracle-supplied
enterprise application sets. One set is green, indicating a non-Oracle
source of enterprise applications: it is labeled Third-Party Applications.
The blue circle encloses six other labeled circles or ellipses labeled
as follows:
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Provisioning
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Directory integration
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LDAP Directory (in the center of the enclosing circle)
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User authentication
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Oracle9iAS Single Sign-on
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Oracle9iAS Certificate Authority
Connecting by double-headed arrows to the central blue circle containing
all those services are the four red sets of enterprise applications, which
are labeled as follows:
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Oracle Databases
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Oracle9iAS Application Server, containing Discoverer, Portal, Forms,
etc.
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Oracle Collaboration Suite, containing Email, Calendar, Files, etc.
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Oracle E-Business Suite, containing Human Resources, Financials, Supply
Chain, etc.