Oracle Identity Manager is a highly flexible and scalable enterprise identity administration system that provides operational and business efficiency by providing centralized administration & complete automation of identity and user provisioning events across enterprise as well as extranet applications. It manages the entire identity and role lifecycle to meet changing business and regulatory requirements and provides essential reporting and compliance functionalities. By applying the business rules, roles, and audit policies, it ensures consistent enforcement of identity based controls and reduces ongoing operational and compliance costs.

Introduction
Oracle Identity Manager is a highly flexible and scalable enterprise identity management system that is designed to administer user access privileges across a company's resources throughout the entire identity management life cycle, from initial on-boarding to final de-provisioning of an identity. Oracle Identity Manager is built on a state-of-the-art Java EE architecture. Java EE is a standard, robust, scalable, and secure platform that forms the basis for many of today’s enterprise applications. Additionally, Oracle Identity Manager’s flexible architecture can handle the most complex IT and business requirements without requiring changes to existing infrastructure, policies or procedures. Its architecture elegantly abstracts core identity administration and provisioning functions into discrete layers. This hallmark flexibility also enables Oracle Identity Manager to excel at handling the constant flow of business changes that impact real-world identity management deployments.

KEY FEATURES
• Self-service identity management drives user productivity, increases user satisfaction and optimizes IT efficiency
• Universal delegated administration enhances security and reduces costs
• Requests with approval workflows and policy-driven provisioning improves IT efficiency, enhances security and enables compliance
• Password management reduces IT help desk costs, and improves service levels
• Integration solutions featuring Adapter Factory and pre-configured connectors enables quick and low cost system integration

KEY BENEFITS
• Increased security: Enforce internal security policies and eliminate potential security threats from rogue, expired and unauthorized accounts and privileges.
• Enhanced regulatory compliance: Cost-effectively enforce and attest to regulatory requirements (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley, 21 CFR Part 11, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, HIPAA) associated with identifying who has access privileges to sensitive data
• Streamlined operations: Reduce inefficiency and improve service levels by automating repeatable user administration tasks
• Improved business responsiveness: Get users productive faster through immediate access to key applications and systems
• Reduced costs: Reduce IT costs through efficient staff usage and common security infrastructure

ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW
• Ease of Deployment: Deployment Manager assists in the migration of integration and configuration between environments.
• Flexible and Resilient: Oracle Identity Manager can be deployed in single or multiple server instances. Multiple server instances provide optimal configuration options, fault tolerance, redundancy, fail-over and system load balancing.
• Maximum Reuse of Incumbent Infrastructure: Oracle Identity Manager is built on an open architecture to integrate with and leverage existing software and middleware already implemented within an organization’s IT infrastructure.
• Modular Architecture: Oracle Identity Manager is made up of abstraction layers, which allows the execution logic to be changed and refined without affecting logic or definitions that still apply.
• Standards-based: Oracle Identity Manager incorporates leading industry standards, such as J2EE and Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).