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The Oracle Directory Integration and Provisioning Platform

You can reduce administrative time and costs by integrating your applications and directories--including third-party LDAP directories--with Oracle Internet Directory. The Oracle Directory Integration and Provisioning platform, a component of Oracle Identity Management, enables you to do this. For example, you might need to do the following:

Keep employee records in Oracle Human Resources consistent with those in Oracle Internet Directory. The Oracle Directory Integration and Provisioning platform provides this synchronization through the Oracle Directory Synchronization Service.
Notify certain LDAP-enabled applications--such as OracleAS Portal--whenever changes are applied to Oracle Internet Directory. The Oracle Directory Integration and Provisioning platform provides this notification through the Oracle Directory Provisioning Integration Service.

Throughout the integration process, the Oracle Directory Integration and Provisioning platform ensures that the applications and other directories receive and provide the necessary information in a reliable way.

You can integrate with various directories, including Microsoft Active Directory and SunONE Directory Server. For example, in an Oracle Application Server environment, where access to Oracle components relies on data stored in Oracle Internet Directory, you can still use Microsoft Active Directory as the central enterprise directory. Users of that directory can still access Oracle components because the Oracle Directory Integration and Provisioning platform can synchronize the data in Microsoft Active Directory with that in Oracle Internet Directory.