LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an internet protocol used for accessing information directories, available as an integral part of (or as an add-on to) many modern operating systems (such as Microsoft's Active Directory product).

HumanConcepts now provides integration with LDAP directories, enabling OrgPlus Desktop and Enterprise to use LDAP as a data source to create organisational charts and corporate directories. If a company manages employee records within LDAP and each record contains supervisor information, that data can now be directly accessed to chart, view, analyse and model the entire organisation.

OrgPlus for LDAP allows employees to view accurate organisational charts and gives executives and management a critical tool for workforce planning, analysis and modelling.

LDAP can also be used with OrgPlus Enterprise as an external security system. OrgPlus Enterprise can query LDAP to authenticate users and optionally to determine a user's role (for role-based security), thus allowing you to leverage your existing security infrastructure and reduce the load on your IT department.

The HR-OCI interface is available with both OrgPlus Enterprise and OrgPlus Professional.

Benefits of OrgPlus/LDAP integration include:

• No need to install custom software into your LDAP environment
• Guaranteed compatibility with LDAP
• More secure than alternative approaches to accessing LDAP data
• Real-time and near real-time charting of LDAP organisational data
• Access to all LDAP info-types
• Use of LDAP native security to restrict data access
• Single Sign On (SSO) - eliminates the need to manage additional user accounts and passwords
• Complete control over which organisational chart features are enabled (print, save or export)
• LDAP can be used for simple user authentication or optionally can be used for field level security and role determination