Introduction to Oracle Identity Management

Although OPSS provides a comprehensive set of platform security services for application development and runtime abstraction, the end-to-end management of the security needs of enterprise applications spawn many aspects that are not addressed by OPSS. This is due to the fact that from a security and identity management perspective, an identity-enabled application itself does not necessarily address all of the identity management requirements, such as the following:

What is my corporate identity store?

Is there a single authoritative identity store where all my users reside?

Can the application recognize users from multiple identity stores without synchronizing all the data into a single store?

How are end users logging in to various applications?