Overview of LDAP

LDAP is an open industry standard protocol that directory services use to manage user profiles, such as user IDs and passwords, across multiple application systems. You can enable EnterpriseOne to use an LDAP-compliant directory service to manage EnterpriseOne user profiles and user-role relationships. After enabling EnterpriseOne for LDAP, user profiles can be administered through an LDAP version 3 compliant directory server, otherwise referred to as the LDAP server. System administrators use a third-party LDAP-enabled application to access the LDAP server.

LDAP provides these benefits:

• Central administration and repository for user profiles.

• You can easily maintain user profiles in a single location that serves multiple end user applications, including EnterpriseOne applications.

• Reduced complexity.

You are not required to use several applications to maintain user profiles. In addition, users are not required to maintain multiple passwords across multiple systems.

LDAP support does not address single sign-on functionality that might exist through other EnterpriseOne functionality.

LDAP does not support certain user profile information. Such information remains in the domain of the EnterpriseOne server and must be maintained by the EnterpriseOne system administrator. Therefore, two distinct and separate user profiles may exist: