Introduction

The Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite allows enterprises to manage end-to-end lifecycle of user identities across all enterprise resources both within and beyond the firewall. You can now deploy applications faster, apply the most granular protection to enterprise resources, automatically eliminate latent access privileges, and much more. Leverage the Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite in its entirety or deploy individual components of the suite to meet your unique needs.

The Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite is a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products, which brings greater agility, better decision-making, and reduced cost and risk to diverse IT environments today.

Oracle leads the industry with award-winning Identity Management offerings that constitute the most comprehensive solution offered by any vendor. Not only do customers get a complete end-to-end solution, they also benefit from proven best-in-class functionality.

The Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite is:

Comprehensive. Providing best-in-class technologies. This includes web access control; identity administration; user provisioning; federated identity management; directory services, including virtual directory technologies; and enterprise wide user provisioning.

Hot-Pluggable and Open. Interoperates with all major directories, application servers, portals, business applications, databases, and operating systems. Oracle works with standards bodies such as the Liberty Alliance and OASIS, and supports, SAML, SPML, WS-*, Kerberos, and many more. Consult the Certification Matrix for supported platforms.

Application-centric. Weaves security into applications as opposed to bolting it on, promising unprecedented efficiencies and ROI.

The Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite is comprised of:

Oracle Access Manager is a state-of-the-art solution for centralized identity administration and access control. Oracle Access Manager delivers the functionalities of web single sign-on, access policy creation and enforcement, user self-registration and self-service, delegated administration, password management, and reporting and auditing. It supports all leading directory servers, application servers, web servers, and enterprise applications.

Oracle Identity Federation is an industry-leading federation solution providing a self-contained and flexible multi-protocol federation server deployable with existing identity and access management systems. Oracle Identity Federation is Liberty Alliance certified for Liberty ID-FF and SAML 2.0.

Oracle Identity Manager is a highly flexible and scalable enterprise identity management system that centrally controls user accounts and access privileges within enterprise IT resources. It provides the functionalities of identity and role administration, approval and request management, policy-based entitlement management, technology integration, and audit and compliance automation. Oracle Identity Manager delivers flexibility and scalability with product features such as a J2EE implementation, N-tier deployment architecture, browser-based user interfaces and Oracle Grid compatibility.

Oracle Internet Directory is an LDAP v3 service that combines the mission-critical strength of Oracle's database technology with the flexibility and compatibility of the LDAP v3 directory standard. Supporting heterogeneous environments, Oracle Internet Directory can be synchronized against third party directories including Microsoft Active Directory, SUN Java System Directory Server, Novell eDirectory and OpenLDAP.

Oracle Virtual Directory allows you to rapidly deploy secure directory enabled applications by providing a real-time, virtual view of identity data from any data-store including directories, databases and Web Services without synchronization. With Oracle Virtual Directory, you can logically join identity attributes stored in multiple data-stores as well as prioritize requests to back-end directories on a per-server or per-connection basis, to maximize the native directory's processing potential.

Conclusion

With the Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite, customers can fulfill all of their identity management requirements from a single vendor, one that offers leading products and capabilities. This means less time spent integrating disparate components, a single point of contact for support, a single license contract, and the backing of the world's largest enterprise software company.

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