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Oracle as the Market Leader in Identity and Access Management, by Forrester

Forrester segmented the IAM (Identity and Access Management) market based on several technologies, including directories, meta directories, virtual directories, provisioning, role management, password management, enterprise single sign-on (E-SSO), Web single sign-on (Web SSO), and federation, along with emerging areas, including entitlement management and identity auditing.

In its March 18, 2008, report, The Forrester Wave: Identity And Access Management, Q1 2008, independent analyst firm Forrester, “evaluated leading identity and access management (IAM) vendors across 117 criteria and found that Oracle has established itself as the IAM market Leader due to its solid technology base across the IAM landscape and its compelling, aggressive strategy around what it refers to as application-centric identity.”. Forrester believes that Oracle has excellent enterprise role management and risk-based authentication capabilities, noting, “we already see Oracle reaching into the small enterprise space more successfully than similar-size competitors.“Serving as the security backbone for Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Identity Management helps customers and partners decrease security threats across diverse IT environments while helping address governance, risk, and compliance needs. Oracle Identity Management was the fastest growing suite of Identity Management products in 2006, based on total software revenues worldwide. Oracle Identity Management’s support of industry standards such as WS*, XACML, SAML, and SPML helps enable customers and partners to more easily integrate applications with the framework.

The family of best-in-class software includes Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Adaptive Access Manager, Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite, Oracle Identity Federation, Oracle Virtual Directory, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Management Pack for Identity Management, and Oracle Web Services Manager — all of which can be used in its entirety or as individual components. Details are available here.

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