Oracle has introduced Identity Management 11g Release 2, a new application that will help customers manage their identity and access requirements.
The new release enables organisations to securely embrace cloud, mobile and social infrastructures and reach new user communities to expand and develop their businesses. It is a key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Release 2 also will enable customers to comply with the latest regulatory requirements, secure critical applications, sensitive data and streamline password management for high risk accounts, in addition to lowering operational costs.
Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 2 brings together Oracle’s entire portfolio of Identity Management applications, consolidating them into three main categories which enhances customers’ performance and operational scale.
The categories include: Oracle Identity Governance, Access Management and Directory Services.
Oracle Identity Governance addresses access request, provisioning and certification with a common user experience built on single platform powered by enhanced analytics to meet an organisation’s compliance, governance and security needs.
The new features of identity governance include: Oracle Privileged Account Manager, a self service shopping cart style user interface that enables employees to request access to applications, simple in the browser customisation, new cloud application provisioning support and enhanced compliance reporting with multi-level certification.
Oracle Access Management offers end-to-end user authentication and authorisation protection across an organization’s data, applications, and web services.
New features include native mobile security and single sign on, support for Social Sign-on and REST API for custom and mobile application development, support for multiple identity stores and multi-datacentre configurations, enhanced third party integrations and enhanced fraud detection.
Oracle Directory Services include proximity based searching and virtual attributes that enable frequent updates to the directory made by location based services to support mobile and social applications
It also features an Optimized Solution for Oracle Unified Directory, featuring scalability and reliability that enables enhanced performance for cloud, mobile and social ecosystems and all-in-one capabilities that unify storage, proxy, synchronisation and virtualisation.
