According to Gartner, user-provisioning implementations are increasing due to regulatory compliance needs. In the report, Gartner states, Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions solve two main functions: administration of user-attributes, credentials, and privileges; and real-time enforcement of assigned privileges.

Oracle Identity Manager, formerly Oracle Xellerate Identity Provisioning, is an industry-leading solution that automates the process of provisioning IT resources across heterogeneous business processes and managed platforms to quickly connect users to resources, and revokes unauthorized access to help protect proprietary information and enhance security. Oracle Identity Manager provides out-of-the-box integration to Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle's PeopleSoft and Siebel applications, as well as more than 50 business applications including SAP, RACF and Lotus Notes.

"We believe Oracle's position in the Leaders quadrant underscores our success in providing organizations with the ability to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of user identities across enterprise resources within the corporate intranet and beyond," said Hasan Rizvi, vice president, Security and Identity Management Products, Oracle. "With the acquisition and integration of Thor, Oracle has helped to increase security, lower corporate risk and deliver increased business value to organizations of all sizes and geographies, required in today's highly complex IT environments."

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About Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite
Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite is a comprehensive, integrated portfolio of products that helps protect applications, critical systems and data from unauthorized access. It spans a multitude of technologies, including Web access control, identity administration, enterprise-wide user provisioning, federated identity management, and virtual and meta directory technologies. Users can leverage the entire suite or deploy individual components to meet their unique needs. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/identity.

About The Magic Quadrant
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The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted April 25, 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

1 Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning, 1H06, Roberta J. Witty, Ant Allan, Ray Wagner, April 25, 2006

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