Features of Oracle Identity Manager

The following are the features of Oracle Identity Manager:
-Scalable architecture
Oracle Identity Manager is based on open, standards-based technology. The J2EE application server model of Oracle Identity Manager offers scalability, failover, load-balancing, and built-in Web deployment features.
-Comprehensive user management
Oracle Identity Manager can support unlimited user organizational hierarchies and user groups with inheritance, customizable user ID policy management, password policy management, and user access policies. It also offers the feature of delegated administration with comprehensive permission settings. We can use Oracle Identity Manager to maintain resource allocation history and to manage application parameters and entitlements.
-Web-based user self-service
Oracle Identity Manager contains a user self-service portal that is customizable and Web based. This portal can be used to manage user information, change and synchronize passwords, reset passwords, request access to applications, review and edit entitlements, and work on workflow tasks.
-Flexible process engine
Using Oracle Identity Manager, we can create business and provisioning process models in applications such as Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio. Process models include support for approval workflows and escalations. We can track the progress of each provisioning event in the workflow.
Oracle Identity Manager provides support for complex branching, self-healing processes, and nested processes with data interchange and dependencies. The process flow can be customized without making code changes.
-Comprehensive reporting for audit-trail accounting
Oracle Identity Manager provides status reports on all processes with full-state information, in real time. In addition, it even offers OLAP features.
-Automated tool for connector management
Oracle Identity Manager provides an automated tool for connector generation. This tool, which is known as the Adapter Factory, supports a wide range of interfaces, applications, and devices. The adapters generated by the Adapter Factory run on the Oracle Identity Manager server, and they do not require any agents to be installed or updated on the target systems. The use of the Adapter Factory helps speed up the process of connector development and simplifies the task of updating existing connectors.
If the target system does not have a network-enabled interface, then we can use the Oracle Identity Manager remote manager to provide an SSL-secured network communication channel and interface to local APIs that are not running on the Oracle Identity Manager server. By using the remote manager, we can run functions on target systems having APIs that are not network aware.
-Built-in change management
Oracle Identity Manager enables to package new processes, import and export existing processes, and move packages from one system to another.