1 Overview

This chapter provides a brief overview of Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.7.0). This chapter includes the following sections:

1.1 Oracle Identity Management Overview

Oracle Identity Management and Oracle Identity and Access Management enables enterprises to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of user identities across all enterprise resources—both within and beyond the firewall. With Oracle Identity Management and Oracle Identity and Access Management, you can deploy applications faster, apply the most granular protection to enterprise resources, automatically eliminate latent access privileges, and much more.

Oracle Corporation leads the industry with award-winning Identity Management offerings that constitute the most comprehensive solution offered by any vendor, including:

  • Web Access Control

  • Adaptive Access Control

  • Identity Federation

  • Identity Administration

  • User Access Provisioning

  • Role Management

  • Authorization Policy Management

  • Directory Services

For more information about Oracle Identity Management, refer to the Identity Management home page on Oracle Corporation's Web site at:

http://www.oracle.com/identity

Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.7.0) installer contains the following components:

  • Oracle Internet Directory

  • Oracle Directory Integration Platform

  • Oracle Virtual Directory

  • Oracle Identity Federation

  • Oracle Directory Services Manager

1.2 Components that can be Upgraded to Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.7.0)

You can upgrade the following Oracle Identity Management 10g components to Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.7.0):

  • Oracle Internet Directory

  • Oracle Virtual Directory

  • Oracle Identity Federation

For upgrading to Oracle Identity Management 11g, you must follow the procedures described in Part II, "Upgrading Oracle Identity Management Environments".

Note:

You can also upgrade your High Availability (HA) configurations for Oracle Identity Management 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) and 10g (10.1.4.0.1) to Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.7.0). For more information, see Part III, "Upgrading Oracle Identity Management High Availability Environments".