In JDE, the user, password and generally authentication management are all big issues, consuming sizeable amounts of effort and ultimately costing companies a pretty penny at the end of the day. A number of real and perceived issues, surrounding all standard approaches offered by Oracle(R), are frequently preventing JDE customers from implementing any of these "standard" solutions. There is clearly a need for something simple to fill in this gap. Something that is secure, easy to understand and implement, convenient to use and well documented.

Soon after introducing our revolutionary ESI JDE User Self Management software, we thought about what else can be done in this area, can this approach be enhanced and taken a few steps further? And predictably enough, we came up with this new solution. These two different software solutions do not overlap, they simply offer two different paths to managing your user authentication. With ESI JDE User Self Management, you keep your normal JDE authentication, do not really extend it in any direction and only add a single new automatic function - allow your users to manage their own passwords, taking a lot of load off your IT support.

And with this SSO solution, the authentication is effectively delegated to Active Directory and all JDE aspects of it are effectively removed from the picture and are now silently managed by our SSO software in the background. All of this, without the complexity of setting it all up within JDE and with some serious additional benefits, not available with the standard JDE LDAP integration. Yet, despite the fact that it's not at all identical to JDE LDAP integration, it is still an LDAP integration, just a different kind. A much friendlier kind. And with more power.

This is a 5-in-1 solution. It concurrently resolves FIVE SEPARATE issues in JDE:

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1) It implements JDE Single Signon WITHOUT configuring JDE for either LDAP or Oracle SSO, in fact without any special configuration in JDE at all - this will save you a lot of time and pain!

2) When signing in into the JDE WEB or Fat client, this solution ELIMINATES THE JDE PASSWORD PROMPT entirely, relying on Windows authentication to seamlessly authenticate the users - this will save your users time and make their JDE experience better!

3) The standard JDE approach requires Windows User Names to be identical to those of JDE Users + imposes the 10-char restriction on the password length, while this SSO solution ELIMINATES THESE REQUIREMENTS - your Windows User Names and Passwords can be as long, or indeed as different from JDE's as desired, necessary or practical - this will give you the flexibility most sites need! The mapping of Windows Users to JDE Users is handled by this software and the process is also simple and easy.

4) Moreover, this solution practically ELIMINATES PASSWORD MANAGEMENT in JDE, by entirely concealing the JDE passwords and effectively replacing the manual JDE signon with an automated process - this will reduce your support costs and again, save time to your users! And because JDE passwords are now out of the picture, there are no restrictions on the users' password length.

5) And to top it all, since this solution can at the same time LOAD-BALANCE the JDE WEB Servers, it does it - it's just a nice extra feature we could include in this solution at no extra cost! In fact, the unlicensed users of this software can also enjoy this feature, so this solution can be used for both licensed and unlicensed users.

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This solution is typically non-visual: when everything is configured and works as expected, the users won't even see it. And if there are any errors that the users should be notified about, this solution shows itself and presents the user with a helpful screen, detailing the error and the possible solution.

The installation is simple and easy, administration is streamlined and intuitive. If you ever used our software, you would know that our solutions are extremely easy to work with, nothing like you've ever seen before. If you are trying to compare the necessary implementation efforts with the JDE LDAP authentication implementation requirements, it will likely take 10-50 times less effort with this solution.

This solution can deliver massive savings, it would typically pay itself off within a few months.

Moreover, these two separate products - this SSO and the USM (ESI JDE User Self Management) can be integrated together: the passwords reset with this USM software can be valid for the SSO software as well, with just a single integration setting in the INI file. And the bundle of these two solutions also comes with a built-in discount. Please, e-mail us for more details about this integration.

Nothing can be easier!

This solution can be implemented in hours. Installation support is free. Only Unicode JDE releases with TR896_F1 or up are supported for WEB Clients, but no restrictions on the Fat Client - even XE/ERP8 are supported. As far as the JDE backend and WEB platforms are concerned, this solution is independent of either one (provided that it is OW/E1 and not World and bearing in mind that it does need an IIS server somewhere in your network to run on). Nothing needs to be installed on the clients in order to use this solution (except in some special cases for advanced functionality), so all and any client platform and browser are supported, including Linux, WTS, etc. Please note, that IIS running the core SSO module and the SSO Manager - the two components of this solution, can both be installed in a single VM and this VM can even be running some old client OS like Windows 2000 Professional to save on the license costs (for large user populations a Server OS is recommended, but it can also be Windows 2000 or 2003 Server).

Please, e-mail us for more details or to request a Trial (full functionality, time and user count limited). The Installation Guide included with the trial provides all the technical details.

Here's a simplified process diagram, illustrating the main steps and components of the process: