Directory Upgrade to ODSEE 11g

With Their Sun Directory (DSEE) Approaching End-Of-Life, This Midwestern Financial Holding Company Upgraded To Oracle ODSEE 11g, Meeting All Compliance Standards And Reducing Costs Through Data Center Consolidation.

Company Overview

A bank holding company located in Detroit, Michigan. The company provides financial services, including insurance, mortgage services, auto financing, and online banking, to over 15 million customers.

Business Challenges

The client had implemented Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition (DSEE) 5.2 to support 4 applications for user authentication and authorization. Oracle’s premier support for this product reached end-of-life in 2013, requiring the financial organization to implement a supported directory system or risk the potential consequences of an audit failure.  Due to the size and complexity of the organization, the client needed to implement a supported directory system with minimal downtime, consolidate their directory instances and consolidate data centers.

Hub City Media's Solution

The client selected Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition (ODSEE 11g) as their new directory system, and hired Hub City Media to perform the implementation. The previous directory system, Sun DSEE 5.2 was upgraded to ODSEE 7, the multiple directory instances were consolidated, and the implementation was carefully executed to allow access without modification to existing applications.

Results

The client's updated directory system was up and running ahead of schedule, protecting the company from potential compliance issues, and avoiding disruption the business due to the minimized downtime. The many directory instances of Sun DSEE were consolidated, simplifying the company’s environment, and reducing costs of maintaining multiple data centers.

Directory Upgrade to Oracle Unified Directory

With Support Ending For Their Aging Directory System, This Large Mortgage Company Migrated 450 Applications To Oracle Unified Directory In Four Months, Maintaining FISMA Compliance With A Performant, State Of The Art And Supported Directory Infrastructure.

Company Overview

A large government-sponsored enterprise providing residential mortgage credit in the secondary market. the company purchases loans from mortgage lenders to give families the opportunity to buy homes, refinance, or rent homes.

Business Challenges

The client was using Sun DSEE as their corporate directory system, supporting 450 critical business applications. Sun DSEE is reaching support end-of-life and FISMA standards require all government agencies to maintain a supported directory system. This mortgage company needed to quickly migrate to a new, efficient and supported directory system while consolidating several directory instances to one.

Hub City Media's Solution

The client selected Oracle Unified Directory as their new directory system, and Hub City Media designed the migration to reduce the number of directory instances with minimal downtime, and to ensure that the 450 applications that accessed LDAP were not impacted during the process. This was one of the largest directory upgrades seen by the Oracle/Hub City Media team.

Results

With Oracle Unified Directory in place, the client has provided a supported IT environment and has avoided all potential compliance issues. Their multiple directory instances were consolidated, simplifying their directory environment, and the 450 applications are now accessing a high performance, feature rich directory.