With Oracle 8i/9i, you can implement security?once, in the server?and give users, customers, and suppliers access to production systems at the same time.
Achieving the right balance between providing appropriate access and enforcing security is no easy task. Giving each user access to all that he or she needs?but only that?can involve complex development and administration scenarios, particularly with a large number of applications and different types of users requiring different levels of access?administrator or user, manager or staff, marketing or manufacturing, for example.

User-access issues such as these are difficult enough to manage within the confines of a single organization; the situation becomes exponentially more challenging when you want to open your production databases to customers, trading partners, and suppliers.

Today's 24x7 Internet-driven world is calling for applications and new business models that challenge traditional security capabilities.

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