Oracle unveils first phase of Oracle Identity Management 11g

July 6, 2009 · Filed Under Security Software, Software News · Comment 

Industry’s First Service-Oriented Security Approach to Identity Management

  • As part of today’s Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle announced the availability of the first components of Oracle Identity Management 11g including Oracle Platform Security Services, Oracle Internet Directory 11g, Oracle Virtual Directory 11g, and Oracle Identity Federation 11g.
  • Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS), a new layer for security services available through Oracle Fusion Middleware, delivers the industry’s first Service-Oriented Security foundation. As a comprehensive declarative security framework Oracle Platform Security Services allows developers to easily build security into their applications and deploy them into a centralized identity management framework.
  • Oracle Directory Services features a newly integrated administration console – Oracle Directory Services Manager – to manage and configure LDAP directories, virtual-directories and meta-directories from a single point. It also features new wizards to help accelerate directory deployments by simplifying tasks such as sizing, tuning, and replication.
  • Oracle Web Services Manager and Oracle Access Manager have significant enhancements to provide integrated access control including message encryption, identity propagation, and policy management for Web-based applications and Web services in a heterogeneous, multi-vendor environment.
  • Oracle Identity Federation now features the Universal Federation Framework, extending connectivity to a broad set of protocols including SAML 2.0, Microsoft CardSpace, Liberty, WS-Federation, and more. Oracle Identity Federation 11g has also passed Liberty Alliance SAML 2.0 Interoperability Testing, thereby demonstrating how user-driven, identity-enabled applications can interoperate across networks, devices and regions.
  • Oracle is also announcing Oracle Identity Analytics, an integrated audit and compliance solution. Oracle Identity Analytics provides rich compliance dashboards, along with intelligent analytics, by aggregating identity data from multiple enterprise systems, applications, and network monitoring solutions into an Identity Warehouse.

Added Integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g – The Foundation for Application Security

  • Oracle Identity Management 11g delivers single sign-on and access management for all Oracle Fusion Middleware products including Oracle WebCenter Suite, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle WebLogic Suite, and Oracle ADF and ADF Desktop Interface, as well as for Oracle Enterprise Manager, through the integration of Oracle Access Manager and Oracle Platform Security Services.
  • The suite strengthens integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware, including new common components, such as a modern, unified user-interface based on AJAX/JSF technologies, shared infrastructure services for encryption, credential management, security policy and meta-data management, auditing and systems management.
  • The added integration between Oracle Identity Management and Oracle Fusion Middleware provides greater flexibility in deploying Applications in an operational environment, helps streamline compliance and controls enforcement, and enables reduced management and operational costs.
  • Partners can also leverage Oracle Identity Management 11g to declaratively build security into applications and automate the integration and deployment of applications into security infrastructures. This is a critical benefit for all partners who build and extend enterprise applications.

Supporting Quotes

  • “Enterprise security is an absolute necessity and businesses cannot afford to compromise,” said Amit Jasuja, vice president, Oracle Identity Management. “Oracle developed Oracle Identity Management 11g with our customers in mind, delivering the most integrated, comprehensive and hot-pluggable security solution on the market. With the Service-Oriented Security approach, businesses can seamlessly build and integrate security into their key technologies to help lower the costs and resources required to implement world-class security.”
  • “The release of Oracle Identity Management 11g marks a significant advance in the integration and manageability of identity management software. The declarative security framework in Oracle Identity Management 11g will allow a dramatically simplified process of incorporating security into applications, and the suite-wide integration combined with a rich Web 2.0 administrative interface will help reduce the resources required to deploy and manage security within the enterprise,” said Kris Virtue, Staff IT Manager, Identity Solutions and Security Operations, Qualcomm.

Supporting Resources

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g
  • Oracle Identity Management 11g
  • Oracle Identity Management 11g Datasheet
  • Oracle Identity Management 11g Whitepaper
  • Oracle Unveils Strategy for Service-Oriented Security

Source: Oracle

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Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1

May 6, 2009 · Filed Under Communications, Networking Software, Software News · Comment 

Application Enhancements Empower Communications Service Providers to More Rapidly Introduce and Deliver Next Generation Services

  • To enable the rapid introduction, fulfillment and ongoing management of next-generation, customer-centric services, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle(R) Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1.
  • The application is designed for cost-effective introduction in a discrete fashion into an existing inventory environment through a modular, service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based framework and inventory federation capabilities for unifying disparate data across multiple systems. This approach enables service providers to deploy only the specific inventory capabilities required in their environments.
  • Since the product’s initial launch, service providers worldwide have purchased and/or deployed the application – including Etihad Atheeb Telecom “GO,” Cellular South, Com Hem AB and Tikona Digital Networks – to support enterprise and consumer services across fixed, cable and mobile networks.
  • Building on best practices derived from these implementations, Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1 provides new capabilities with improved usability and integration that will help customers accelerate deployment and optimize the application’s benefits, while reducing total cost of ownership.

New Features in Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1

  • Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1 introduces pre-built technology packs that provide out-of-the-box functionality for accelerated rollout of the most common IP multi-play and higher layer services including voice over IP (VoIP), multiprotocol label switching layer 3 virtual private network (MPLS L3 VPN) and Metro Ethernet/virtual local area network (VLAN) services.
  • The application enables true inventory federation through a federation framework that allows integration and collaboration with external inventory systems without requiring capital intensive data migration and/or consolidation, or a risky complete inventory system transformation.
  • Further, Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1 delivers out-of-the-box integration with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, which many service providers use to create tailored reports that draw upon real-time and historical inventory data, as well as Oracle Spatial, which supports geographical mapping and geocoding across the application. These pre-built integrations deliver rapid, seamless incorporation of business analytics and powerful geospatial representations to the inventory arena.
  • The new release also features an enhanced graphical design time modeling tool, Design Studio, which offers best practices modeling of customer services and resources. It also simplifies the configuration and development of Web services to support service fulfillment for enterprise and consumer multi-play services.
  • Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1 also provides additional documentation and use cases to empower service provider implementation teams with tools to deploy the application faster and with less in-house development.

Supporting Quotes

“Communications service providers around the world are already benefitting from the integrated inventory tools that Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management offers. With this new release, Oracle has demonstrated the application’s strength through documented successes that service providers and their systems integrator partners can replicate, as well as productized technology packs to accelerate the delivery of key next generation services. Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1 will empower service providers to quickly and efficiently introduce, deploy and manage a range of services, from convergent consumer multi-play to advanced enterprise services,” said Liam Maxwell, vice president of products, Oracle Communications.

“With the intent to create the largest WiMax network in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, GO had the unique opportunity to define a strategic systems architecture that is not burdened by legacy applications or approaches but instead embraces innovative applications that natively support contemporary technologies, are readily extensible to support additional technologies and ensure close alignment with key TM Forum standards. Consistent with that goal, GO has deployed Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management as our strategic inventory platform, which provides GO the confidence and flexibility to support both current and next-generation services and technologies,” said Craig Humphreys, vice president, information technology at Etihad Atheeb Telecom “GO.”

Source: Oracle

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