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<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are perhaps hundreds of Agile PLM customers that are\nquite content with the state of their Agile systems. It\u2019s a tried and true product that has\nreached a level of maturity that doesn\u2019t warrant significant feature\nenhancements. Many of those customers\nare getting by with early versions of Agile 9.3.6, 9.3.5 and often even older\nversions. While IT managers may call for\nupgrades to replace aging infrastructure, business managers and users are often\nleft asking, \u201cWhat\u2019s in it for me?\u201d For\nseveral major and minor releases now, there have not been compelling reasons to\nupgrade in the eyes of many customers. \nPlatform support doesn\u2019t mean much to an end user, and with many feature\nenhancements coming to modules that users may not use, upgrades haven\u2019t been\njustifiable. And lastly, while there\nhave been lengthy bug fix lists with every release, customers often look right\npast those if they haven\u2019t experienced the problems that were fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the general reluctance to upgrade, Oracle recently\nprovided a reason that may compel more customers to consider upgrade. Agile 9.3.6 Release Update Pack (RUP) 9 was\nreleased in April 2019 and includes a feature that may not have gotten much\nattention, but it should. RUP 9\nintroduced support for SAML 2.0 Authentication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SAML is an abbreviation for Security Assertion Markup\nLanguage and without getting too technical, it\u2019s an XML-based framework for\npassing authentication credentials. With\nthe explosion of cloud services, it\u2019s become the standard for authenticating\nusers for SaaS applications. And with so\nmany companies moving parts of their business to cloud applications, SAML is\nalmost an imperative, allowing the customer to manage application access while\nthe SaaS provider can do what they do best without worrying about managing user\naccount databases. When a user attempts\nto access a cloud application, their request is forwarded to an Identity\nProvider (IdP) to confirm their identity and level of access; and only if\neverything checks out are they granted access to the application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Agile PLM, while typically an on-premise application, can\nbenefit from the popularity of SAML for identity management and authentication. With a minimum amount of effort, Agile can be\nconfigured to authenticate via the same Identity Provider that a company is\nalready using for all their cloud services. \nAnd for those customers that have struggled with Single Sign On (SSO)\nconfiguration in the past using web servers like IIS, they should be happy to\nknow that additional front-end web servers are not needed to enable SAML 2.0\nsupport in Agile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With SAML support enabled in Agile 9.3.6 RUP 9, Agile\ncustomers can control access to Agile via their corporate directory service,\neliminate Agile-only user accounts and password management headaches, and let\nusers use the same account credentials they use for other enterprise on-premise\nand cloud based applications. And for\nthose customers that have intranet launch pages, users will welcome the ease of\nsingle sign, an often-requested feature that many customers elected not to\nimplement because of the additional infrastructure required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PointPLM has implemented SAML 2.0 authentication in Oracle Agile PLM 9.3.6 RUP 9 and would be happy to discuss your use case.\u00a0 For any customer that has not already upgraded to RUP 9 we can help make that happen and even if you are already there, we\u2019d be happy to talk to you about enabling SAML support for your Agile PLM environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are perhaps hundreds of Agile PLM customers that are quite content with the state of their Agile systems. It\u2019s a tried and true product that has reached a level of maturity that doesn\u2019t warrant significant feature enhancements. Many of … Continue reading <\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"