Oracle Access Manager helps enterprises create greater levels of business agility, ensures smooth application integration, and enables regulatory compliance. Through an innovative modular architecture Oracle Access Manager combines access control, session management, and system management services to provide centralized authentication, policy-based authorization, identity propagation, session controls, system diagnostics, agent management, and auditing. Protecting resources at the point of access and propagating the authenticated identity downstream, Oracle Access Manager secures enterprise applications while reducing cost, complexity and administrative burdens.

Introduction
Oracle Access Manager is an enterprise level solution that centralizes critical access control services to provide an integrated solution that delivers authentication, authorization, web single sign-on, policy administration, enforcement agent management, session control, systems monitoring, reporting, logging, and auditing. Oracle Access Manager’s key features include the AppSecure Control Center, Single Sign-On Security Zones, and eCO Grid (Embedded Coherence Grid), which combine powerful security controls with an easy-to-use and intuitive interface to dramatically simplify how enterprises manage application security. Oracle Access Manager excels in complex, heterogeneous enterprise environments and integrates out-of-the-box with market leading directory servers, application servers, web servers, and enterprise applications.

KEY FEATURES
• AppSecure Control Center
• Single Sign-On Security Zones
• eCO Grid (Embedded Coherence Grid)
• Self-Service Password Management
• Centralized Policy Administration
• Simplified Application Integration

KEY BENEFITS
• Create and manage agents and run diagnostics from a central administration console to simplify ongoing security administration
• Scopes encryption keys for data passed been WebGates and the Oracle Access Manager Access Server to an application enforcement point, creating security zones that prevent unauthorized access from spreading to multiple applications
• Provides high performance access to distributed security session data allowing centralized control over user sessions by enforcing constraints such as a single session per user
• Gives end users the ability to create and reset their password without assistance to dramatically reduce help desk costs and helps to keep users productive
• Simplifies administration through a unique set of tools that provide remote application registration, policy simulation, and test-to-production migration
• Provides built-in and seamless integration to Oracle Fusion Middleware applications