Abstract: Two main methods exist today to enforce access control in a network fabric: soft zoning and hard zoning. However, each of these approaches has some significant drawbacks. Accordingly, presented herein are new and improved systems and methods to perform access control enforcement, which is stronger than soft zoning, and does not need to interact with the fabric switches, as required by hard zoning. In one or more embodiments, an authentication verification entity (AVE) is provided with access control or authorization information. In one or more embodiments, the AVE uses this information to cause an authentication verification failure for connections between hosts and subsystems that are not allowed according to configurations (e.g., zoning configurations) of the fabric.

Abstract: A system for deploying to a client accounting installation a general procurement and accounts payable application specifically configured for the client by an enterprise includes a database server for (1) maintaining on a storage device a database of templates describing procedures for assessing, preparing, developing, deploying and supporting the application, and for (2) serving these templates to team members operating web-enabled terminals for coordinating, recording and tracking team activities with respect to the application while generating a description for adapting a front end server and an accounting system server to the requirements of the client.