Oracle Access Manager Introduction

Oracle Access Manager Introduction

Authentication and Access Control Management

·         Controls access to web applications

·         Web single sign-on for secure access to multiple applications with one authentication step.

·         Flexible authentication support for all popular methods including login forms, digital certificates, and smart cards.

·         Centralized and delegated policy administration and enforcement that reduces cost and operational complexity for IT administrators.

Identity Administration

·         Management of users, groups and organizations.

·         Integrated workflow capability for orchestrating identity profile updates and approvals.

·         User self-service administration and password management to help reduce help desk calls.

·         Highly customizable browser-based and web service interfaces to administrative functionalities offers ultimate flexibility for integration.

Miscelaneous

·         Oracle Access Manager integrates with existing e-business infrastructures (such as SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft, and Oracle eBusiness Suite). It provides pre-built agents to protect, access, and manage all popular third-party web servers, application servers, portals, LDAP directories, email systems, and relational databases.

·         Oracle Access Manager includes unified and centralized audit reporting for all Access Manager components, with all operations stored and correlated in a secure database for reporting and analysis.

·         Oracle Access Manager is the industry’s most comprehensive identity and access management solution with integrated identity administration, single sign-on, centralized policy management and a compliance-reporting framework. Oracle Access Manager supports a wide variety of authentication mechanisms - for example HTML Forms, X.509 certificates, and smart cards - and has a flexible administration framework for creating, managing, or customizing access control policies. Authentication control and policy enforcement is provided out of the box for a wide variety of web servers, application servers, and packaged applications running on nearly any flavor of operating system, including Windows, SUSE Linux, RedHat Linux, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX. Oracle Access Manager is the choice for complex, heterogeneous, highly distributed, or massively scaled environments, and has been consistently recognized as the leading web access management solution by the industry's most important analysts.