A common question asked at Apps2Fusion forums is...what is Oracle Identity Manager…. Well, Oracle Identity Management is a collection of processes, procedures, software, and business rules that a company uses to manage the security life cycle for its users. In other words it controls what user can access, how they can access and also what operations you can perform on the components of the system that you can access. Oracle Identity Management is suite of products that together helps to manage the security life cycle of a user and user’s access to resources inside an organization.

Why does a customer need Oracle Identity and Access Management ? [ also known as IDM or IAM]

Oracle IDM is enterprise build software which manages the end-to-end life cycle of user identities in an organization. It helps to address the basic business problems: for example right from the day when someone comes onboard in an organization, how to provide users access to company resources to do their job? How the users are to be authenticated? If the user is authenticated, are they authorized? How strong the authorization needs to set up? As they maintain their career with an organization, they move from different departments, to different cities, to different roles. So, what they are authorized to do and what privileges they should have needs to be modified accordingly. Also, when they finally leave the company, we need to revoke all the access which should be consistent across the board. And these are exactly the questions which Oracle Identity management allows us to address. To perform each of these functions, Oracle Identity Management Suite provides different product.

Oracle Identity Management Components:

Oracle Identity management provides comprehensive set of services as shown:

Each set of above service maps to a specific product in Oracle Identity Management Suite.

·       Access Management OAM/OIF/OAAM/OES

·       Directory Services à OID/OVD/ODSSE

·       Identity Administration and Governance àOIM/OIA

At apps2fusion.com we provide a comprehensive set of trainings on all the above listed products which can help you quickly understand the usage of each of these products and the services they offer.

Key Benefits of Oracle Identity Management:

·        Complete:
Oracle IDM has set of services that help in identity administration, authentication, authorization, single sign on, identity governance, auditing and reporting.

·        Easy to integrate:

As per business need, we can use Oracle IDM components together or separately to provide the required Identity services to different application (both in-house and third party) Oracle Identity management gets easily integrated with other Oracle applications like EBS, Hyperion, and OBIEE.

·        Compliance:

      Oracle Identity Management helps us to guarantee and verify that we are following the compliances laid out by government such as SOX, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and HIPPA for health insurance management.

·      One-Stop-Solution:
It is a one-stop-solution for all the security related needs in an organization and with the improved end user experience, it is easy to manage and implement.

For all the integration related queries between Oracle IDM and different Oracle applications, you can reach to us at contact (at) apps2fusion.com. You can also reach out to the author on amit.jain [at] apps2fusion.com

Amit Jain

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