Eric Fisher, Director, Middleware & Web Services

Craig Johnson

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world's largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering. The university educates more than 34,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Worldwide Campus at more than 130 centers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning. For more information, visit http://www.embryriddle.edu.

Embry-Riddle selected Oracle to improve customer service, implement process improvements and manage more than 60,000 accounts providing faculty, staff, affiliates, students, alumni and applicants secure access to highly sensitive data and applications. Prior to implementing Oracle Identity Management, Embry-Riddle faced a number of challenges common to higher education institutions today, including decentralization of IT resources, siloed security and privacy policies, lack of an enterprise wide system to track employee access to sensitive data, constant changes in user roles and diverse users with multiple affiliations. To overcome these challenges, Embry-Riddle teamed with Mycroft to design an enterprise-wide identity management infrastructure. After an exhaustive evaluation process, Embry-Riddle selected Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite to serve as the foundation of its identity management infrastructure and implemented in less than seven months. Using Oracle Identity Manager, a component of the Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite, Embry-Riddle can enforce tighter, automated access and management controls around its sensitive data and applications including the Oracle E-Business Suite, its Datatel student information system and Microsoft Exchange. The university is using Oracle Identity Manager to provision to multiple LDAP directories, including Microsoft Active Directory, Novell eDirectory and Oracle Internet Directory. Additionally, Oracle Identity Manager enabled the university to create a single identity for all users and to more rapidly and automatically provision and deprovision access privileges and requirements as an individual's role changes. Previously Embry-Riddle used a manual or batch process to implement nearly 2,000 changes daily, which typically took 24 to 26 hours to complete the university can now accomplish in less than 30 minutes and provide near real-time updates to its constituents. (FROM ORACLE PRESS RELEASE)