The document discusses Oracle Unified Directory (OUD), a next-generation optimized directory from Oracle. OUD provides extreme scale to support billions of entries, converges multiple directory services, and is integrated with Oracle products. The document outlines drivers in identity management like mobility, cloud and social media. It then covers key capabilities and performance improvements in OUD 11gR2, and provides examples of customer deployments upgrading from older directories and open source solutions.
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Customer requirements have changed significantly over the past few years. They mostly only needed to manage their internal staff which in many cases was not too difficult for the IT team to manage.Now with the continued growth of the internet, Mobile & Social media, the maturing Cloud market and the ever increasing number of smart ‘non carbon’ devices is driving the need to simplify and innovate.It is all about being able to service potentially huge numbers of id’s whether people or non carbon entities such as cars, mobile devices, smart meters etc as efficiently and quickly as possible.There is a huge drive to be able to deliver all of this with as little disturbance to their employee / customer base during the transition.
Social networking has captured the imagination of people globally and is really driving a lot of integration by organizations wishing to get access to this market space to drive more revenue and brand awareness. Integration with social networks is important for employee and consumer relationshipsStudy by Enterprise Consulting group: 44% of organizations plan to social enable apps in the near future and the number is expected to grow rapidly across all sectors.Facebook alone has more than 700 million users worldwide and new social networking sites continue to proliferate. Increasingly users are demanding seamless logon to applications using their social networking credentials. This trend is now spreading to low value enterprise applications like blogs, communities, marketing assets etc. The way we do business has changed. The enterprise is embracing a new digital experience.58% or organizations are building mobile app store 62% of our customers will provide mobile apps by 2014 And the world will re-architect to embrace the cloud.
Increasingly more and more employees are bringing in their own devices to work. Mobile users expect applications to work seamlessly on mobile devices just like the app would work on a desktop or laptop..With over 5.9 billion mobile devices world wide (only a small proportion are smart phones), organizations are wanting to be able to offer more and more services via these devices.There is huge potential for the business especially marketing but also this brings scalability and security issues to IT.Cars, Smart meters, fridges tv’s all offer huge opportunities for organisations to improve their services, save costs and generate more revenue.
With usage changes, from Enterprise Directory to directory tu support Mobiles, social applications and cloud solution, people expect product can be easily upgraded.We now truly live in a 24x7 world in which you can buy anything anywhere anytime and people are not prepared to wait.Customers need and demand a path that enables them to grasp the new business opportunities with as little disturbance to the business as possible.
Customers over many years of not wanting to disturb their systems have cobbled together more and more systems that are now hurting the business either by performance and scalability or through security and management costs.Business need to be able to consolidate their core infrastructure so that they can cut their TCO. At the same time being able to scale to achieve new business initiatives that will allow them to generate more revenue by tapping into the new digital experience by:-Advertising via social Media and being able to store and track their activity and preferences from multiple devices.Improve the customer experience for vendors such as car manufacturers who can now diagnose remotely any issues as well as personalising their settings within the car down to playlists on their car stereo.Cutting costs by implementing smart meters but ensuring the communications are secure and not interfered with.Give extra security assurances to customers with a layered approach so they will use your services with confidence.Cut costs through platform approach which cuts the integration, maintenance and lowers the overall TCO.
Need to gather and store data about customers and prospective customersWant to identify web site visitors via consumer social identities to establish and develop relationshipsNeed to provide an externally facing, extranet-oriented identity infrastructureNeed to integrate their business infrastructure with their Identity infrastructure Cloud deployment with Identity on Premise or in the Cloud drive demand for changesEvery one wants to access its application from mobile devices, putting at pressure number of entries managed a directory serviceSocial networking application are looking for means to leverage user locations or connections with othersAs more and more people get access to applications through mobile, they want to have their own personal customizationAll this result in more and more objects to manage in the directory with high performance level- All this in a context, where directory server, need to evolve into directory services with ability to deploy fast and bring new applications to market fast with lower TCO.Users are asking for more and more
Extreme Scale - Mostly self-contained slide -- regurgitate the write performance items from above.
Fully compatible with ODSEEReplication gateway provided as part of OUD Bi-directional replication with ODSEERun in mixed environment of OUD and ODSEE with easeZero down time upgrade from ODSEE to OUDIntegrated & Interoparable- This is a unified solution.- Some of it is a single installer -- such as the console, proxy, and directory server...- Other aspects are through direct integration, shared diagnostics, shared operations consoles, and so forth that give customers an easy way to tie their service together seamlessly.