Serving as the security backbone for Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Identity Management is a comprehensive and integrated family of best-in-class identity and access management products that help enable customers to manage identities and secure access to sensitive data. Oracle Identity Management provides a number of key capabilities including Identity Provisioning, Password Management, Access Management, Identity Administration, LDAP Directory and Virtual Directory Services, Identity Federation, Audit and Compliance Reporting and other services. Based on a hot-pluggable architecture, Oracle Identity Management interoperates with all major databases, directories, application servers and applications - enabling customers to build on their existing IT infrastructure.

"Organizations require a comprehensive solution that can provide identity, access, and user provisioning solutions for a diverse IT environment," said Hasan Rizvi, vice president, Security and Identity Management Products, Oracle. "Based on our hot-pluggable architecture, Oracle Identity Management provides organizations with a unified means to seamlessly and securely manage users and their access rights across Oracle and non-Oracle systems."

Customers Cite Strength of Standards-Based Architecture
Organizations spanning multiple industries are lauding the integration, manageability and standards-based application support as key benefits of Oracle Identity Management.

Increasing Security and Extending IT Investments
With more than 8,000 small to medium-sized businesses around the country as clients, Gevity is one of the leading Human Resource outsourcing firms in the U.S. Gevity provides a comprehensive employment management solution that helps clients improve profits, grow sales and increase customer satisfaction through superior people management practices.

"We selected Oracle COREid Federation, part of Oracle Identity Management, in order to enhance our ability to provide an open, secure and robust solution for identity management federation," said Lisa Harris, senior vice president and CIO, Gevity. "We also chose additional components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, including Oracle BPEL Process Manager, to deploy and extend the next generation of Oracle Applications."

Provisioning Internal and External Users
Network Appliance, Inc., a leading provider of advanced networked storage solutions, recently selected Oracle Identity Manager. NetApp plans to use the product to provision internal and external users across a variety of business applications.

"As a world-class storage provider, NetApp has a demanding and diverse computing environment that consists of Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise applications, the Oracle E-Business Suite, plus other enterprise and custom built applications. We require a provisioning product that can easily plug into our existing infrastructure," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Product and Partners at Network Appliance. "As a company, we are focused on simplifying data management for customers. Therefore, we seek to deploy solutions with outstanding performance and reliability to meet the demands of our business, without adding complexity. We are confident that Oracle Identity Manager will meet our interoperability needs and will help us streamline provisioning for our internal and external contacts to provide nothing less than a great total customer experience."

Securing and Integrating Patient Records
Seguro Popular Agency is a government agency in Mexico responsible for improving health conditions by providing health insurance programs for all its citizens in need. Tasked with providing insurance cards to more than 3 million Mexican citizens, e-siglo, an Oracle partner, selected Oracle COREid Identity and Access and Oracle BPEL Process Manager to integrate Seguro Popular's main agency application with hospitals and drugstores throughout the nation.

"We selected Oracle as the de-facto technology because its standards-based solution met the project's current and future demands to integrate, manage and secure access to the sensitive data found in public health records," said Osiel Tizcareno, director, e-siglo. "Standardizing on Oracle middleware for the Seguro Popular project helped enable us to experience the benefits of best-in-class identity and SOA technologies."

For additional information about Oracle Identity Management please visit: http://www.oracle.com/identity.

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