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Oracle Identity Cloud Service User and Group Management

Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management (OCI IAM) is Oracle's cloud native security and identity platform. They provide a powerful set of hybrid identity features to maintain a single identity for each user across cloud, mobile, and on-premises applications. IDCS or OCI IAM enables single sign on (SSO) across all applications in a customer's Oracle Cloud tenancy. Customers can also integrate IDCS or OCI IAM with other on premise applications to extend the scope of this SSO.

IDCS or OCI IAM is available in two tiers: Foundation and Standard.

  • IDCS or OCI IAM Foundation: Oracle provisions this free version of Oracle Identity Cloud Service for customers that subscribe to Oracle Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Oracle Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) applications. A customer can use this version to provide basic identity management functionality including user management, group management, password management, and basic reporting.

  • IDCS or OCI IAM Standard: This licensed edition provides customers with an additional set of features to integrate with other Oracle Cloud services, including Oracle Cloud SaaS and PaaS, custom applications hosted on-premises, on Oracle Cloud, or on a third-party cloud, as well as third-party SaaS applications. Features listed in this pricing tier are applicable for both Enterprise users and Consumer users.

Details of the specific features available in each tier and IDCS or OCI IAM Standard Tier licensing model are available in Administering IDCS or OCI IAM. Retail Insights Cloud Service Suite only requires the Foundation Tier, as the Foundation Tier includes key features such as User and Group Management, Self-Service Profile Management and Password Reset, SSO. However, Oracle Retail AI Foundation Cloud Services customers may wish to consider licensing the Standard Tier of IDCS or OCI IAM to have access to more advanced identity features including Identity Synchronization with Microsoft Active Directory, SSO for Third Party Cloud Services and Custom Applications, Multi-Factor Authentication and generic SCIM Templates.