Understanding Data Correlation

To construct the Identity Warehouse, global users are imported into Oracle Identity Analytics. This causes the entitlements in the various resources and target systems to be imported as well. A commonly used method to import this data is to run the automated Oracle Identity Analytics import process using flat or .csv files.

The process of associating global users to their respective entitlements is called data correlation. In Oracle Identity Analytics, multiple correlation rules can be defined to accurately associate global users to their entitlements. This chapter describes these rules and provides examples that show how to correlate global users to their entitlements using a combination of correlation rules and expressions.

Additionally, Oracle Identity Analytics provides powerful manual correlation capabilities. Manual correlation enables you to manually correlate orphan accounts (accounts that do not have any associated users) as well as change the association of existing correlated accounts.