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.
