End user provisioning involves creating user records and granting appropriate access for users of Oracle Utilities cloud services.

This section provides instructions for Security Administrators to set up user accounts for Oracle Utilities cloud services, managing the end-to-end lifecycle for user identity, and governing user authentication in multiple business applications. Identity management tasks include creation of the user and user group records, granting users and groups an access to the target business applications, and managing various security settings.

This section also provides an introduction to working with Oracle Identity Cloud Service (). Identity Cloud Service is provisioned to customers with subscriptions to Oracle Utilities cloud services. Customers receive an instance of Identity Cloud Service (also referred to as Identity Cloud Service tenancy). The tenancy is managed exclusively by the customer (see Identity Cloud Service Tenancy for more information).

This chapter includes the following: