Hello
First post here, I apologize if this is in the wrong area or if this is already answered elsewhere.
I am working with some Oracle integrators to setup a few separate Oracle Cloud products:
Fusion Financials (ERP)
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
HCM
The products are not rolling out simultaneously. The farthest along is the ERP system. I have already worked with the integrators to setup Azure SAML SSO within ERP, and that's working fine.
I am now tasked with setting up Azure SSO for the EPM side of the house.
However, all of the docs I have found (link #1, link #2, link #3) are telling me I should setup federation between the Oracle CLOUD instance and my Azure instance.
This is starkly different from how I was instructed to setup the ERP side. For ERP, federation was setup within the ERP app. That is, I logged into the ERP with my admin account and tied it into our Azure system.
This raises a few questions for me:
- Given that the ERP system is contained inside our Cloud system, is the ERP system capable of using our cloud-configured Azure connection? That is, why did I have to setup ERP-specific federation if I was going to setup a connection on the underlying cloud platform anyway?
- Does configuring the cloud federation interfere with the ERP authentication at all? Am I going to break ERP if I go through with the instructions Oracle sent me (link # 3 above)? ERP is already quasi-live, and dozens of people use it daily.
- Do I have to manage these integrations separately now? That is, ERP has its own integration, and Cloud has its own?
I just want to be precisely sure of what I am doing – how all these things tie together – before I go messing about in the settings. I am comfortable setting up SAML integrations as needed, it's just the Oracle side of things that is new to me.
Thank you