Oracle Identity Management
Oracle Internet Directory is a component of Oracle Identity Management, an integrated infrastructure that provides distributed security services for Oracle products and other enterprise applications. In addition to Oracle Internet Directory, the Oracle Identity Management infrastructure includes the following components and capabilities:
- Oracle Directory Integration and Provisioning platform: This component enables synchronization between Oracle Internet Directory and:
- Other directories and user repositories
- Automatic provisioning services for Oracle components and applications
- Third-party applications
- Oracle Delegated Administration Services: This component provides trusted proxy-based administration of directory information by users and application administrators.
- Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On: This component provides single sign-on access to Oracle and third-party Web applications.
- Oracle Application Server Certificate Authority: This component generates and publishes X.509 V3 PKI certificates to support strong authentication methods.
To support enterprise application deployments, a single Oracle Identity Management infrastructure is typically deployed in the enterprise. It can include multiple server and component instances to provide high availability, information localization, and delegated component administration. Each additional application in the enterprise then leverages the shared infrastructure for identity management services. This deployment model has a number of advantages, including:
- Planning and implementing the identity management infrastructure is a one-time cost, rather than a necessary part of each enterprise application deployment. As a result, new applications such as portals, J2EE applications, and e-business applications can be rapidly deployed.
- Identities, while possibly administered in multiple places, are centrally managed and instantly available to all enterprise applications.
- A centralized security infrastructure makes it possible to realize user single sign-on across enterprise applications.
- A centralized identity management infrastructure provides a single point of integration between the enterprise Oracle environment and other identity management systems. This eliminates the need for multiple, custom, point-to-point integration solutions.
