Oracle Identity Management


Oracle Identity Management, a software suite marketed by Oracle Corporation, provides identity and access management technologies.
The name of the software suite closely resembles the name of one of its components, Oracle Identity Manager.

Components

Sun rebranding

After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, they re-branded a number of products that overlapped in function. The re-branding, and Oracle's commitment to ongoing support and maintenance of these products were revealed by Hasan Rizvi, Senior Vice President of Oracle Fusion Middleware in an Oracle and Sun Identity Management Strategy webcast in 2010.
Old NameNew Name
Sun Directory Server Enterprise EditionOracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition
Sun OpenDSOracle Unified Directory
Sun Role ManagerOracle Identity Analytics
Sun Identity ManagerOracle Waveset
Sun OpenSSO EnterpriseOracle OpenSSO

Other information

Originally, in the 10g and earlier versions, the Java-based portions of the suite ran mainly on OC4J, although some components supported other J2EE appservers. For the 11g version, Oracle Corporation ported the OC4J-based components to WebLogic.
the software was undergoing Common Criteria evaluation process.
In March 2005 Oracle acquired Oblix and incorporated their web access control software into Oracle Identity Management.