Pros and Cons of Oracle Identity Governance 2024

Name: Identity Governance - Getting Started
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What is Oracle Identity Governance?

Identity Governance

Rating: 8 out of 10

September 16, 2019

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

My organization is using OIG for user provisioning and governance . We use it for enterprise use cases like user onboarding and application provisioning to expedite manual ful...

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Analyst

7 years of experience

OIM - The Best Tool for Access Management

Rating: 8 out of 10

July 10, 2019

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We use OIM across the entire organization. We generally use it for our provisioning and deprovisioning process. We also use it for access controls and do generate and fulfill ...

Chukwuma Esoga

Engineer - Information Technology

Senior Identity Access Mgmt Engineer

Childrens National Medical Center

3 years of experience

Oracle Identity Manager Go or No Go - A Review

Rating: 7 out of 10

October 30, 2017

IncentivizedVetted Review

Oracle Identity Manager(OIM) being used by the organization to identity lifecycle management of employees, contractors, and partners. It’s being used across the whole organiza...

Brijesh Kumar Swarnkar

Consultant - Information Technology

Technical Manager

Tech Mahindra

10 years of experience

OIM. When and when not to.

Rating: 5 out of 10

July 12, 2017

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It is used as a centralised access control and security system for the custom web application/mobile application developed for one of the government websites used by a little ...

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Consultant

3 years of experience

OIM - A very complex identity platform

Rating: 1 out of 10

June 2, 2016

Vetted ReviewVerified User

Oracle Identity Manager is being used to provision user accounts for employees and externals. It is also used for password management/resets.

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Director

6 years of experience

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$1

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Named User Plus - Software Update License & Support

$792

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$3,600

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No setup fee

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$3,600

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What is Oracle Identity Governance?

Oracle Identity Governance (OIG) -formerly Oracle Identity Manager or OIM- is an enterprise identity management system that automatically manages users' access privileges within enterprise IT resources.

For more information visit https://www.oracle.com/middleware/identity-management/governance

Oracle Identity Governance Video

Identity Governance - Getting Started

Oracle Identity Governance Competitors

Hitachi ID Bravura Identity
Idaptive Next-Gen Access (formerly Centrify)
AWS

Oracle Identity Governance Technical Details

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No

Frequently Asked Questions

Oracle Identity Governance starts at $3600.

Hitachi ID Bravura Identity are common alternatives for Oracle Identity Governance.

The most common users of Oracle Identity Governance are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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Identity Governance

Rating: 8 out of 10

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September 16, 2019

Verified User

Vetted Review

Verified User

7 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization is using OIG for user provisioning and governance . We use it for enterprise use cases like user onboarding and application provisioning to expedite manual fulfillments.

Pros and Cons

Cost-saving.
Provisioning.
Governance.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend Oracle Identity Governance for provisioning and onboarding resources.

Oracle Identity Governance Feature Ratings

Identity Management (7)

55.71428571428571%

5.6

ID-Management Access Control: 60%
6.0
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO): 80%
8.0
Multi-Factor Authentication: 40%
4.0
Password Management: 70%
7.0
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning: 90%
9.0
ID Management Workflow Automation: 40%
4.0
ID Risk Management: 10%
1.0

Return on Investment

It has sped up onboarding processes by at least 3x.
Reduced workload.
Auto-provisioning.

OIM - The Best Tool for Access Management

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 10, 2019

Chukwuma Esoga

Senior Identity Access Mgmt Engineer

Childrens National Medical Center (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

3 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use OIM across the entire organization. We generally use it for our provisioning and deprovisioning process. We also use it for access controls and do generate and fulfill access requests within the organization. At a future time we are looking to implement segregation of duties functionality as well as attestation and certification

Pros and Cons

Provisioning and Deprovisioning from HR System PeopleSoft into OIM and downstream systems
Access Requests and SOA Workflows
Active Directory and Exchange Connnectors also work great

Likelihood to Recommend

OIM is very good for onboarding and off boarding users from the HR Systems into the other Applications. I love the fact that users can get provisioned once the clear HR Processing and Managers can go in and create Access Requests for the staff so that it's provisioned so the can hit their first on speed.

Oracle Identity Governance Feature Ratings

Identity Management (7)

55.71428571428571%

5.6

ID-Management Access Control: 80%
8.0
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO): 20%
2.0
Multi-Factor Authentication: 10%
1.0
Password Management: 80%
8.0
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning: 90%
9.0
ID Management Workflow Automation: 60%
6.0
ID Risk Management: 50%
5.0

Return on Investment

It has a great impact from moving us from paper based to full EHR Compliance
It's easy to check and see how users get and lose access to the systems that are administered through OIM
It's also helping in tying down Policies and procedures within the Orgainization

Other Software Used

BMC Remedy Asset Management, Amazon Web Services, Visual Studio IDE

Oracle Identity Manager Go or No Go - A Review

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

October 30, 2017

Brijesh Kumar Swarnkar

Technical Manager

Tech Mahindra (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

10 years of experience

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Oracle Identity Manager(OIM) being used by the organization to identity lifecycle management of employees, contractors, and partners. It’s being used across the whole organization as a number of applications rely on OIM for automated provisioning and requests based provisioning of user accounts. OIM not only automates identity lifecycle across multiple applications but it also helps the organization to reduce related admin costs. At the same time, it ensures minimum entitlements to users' accounts, which is the backbone of identity management.

Pros and Cons

Very well defined connector framework, which enables us to connect with industry-leading applications, either as a trusted source or targets.
Very much customizable and scalable as per organisational needs.
Always a preferable choice when you have an Oracle applications ecosystem in place as it's easy to configure and maintain when coupled.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for:
1. Large and medium organisations who have the capacity to invest in IAM roadmap for long term.
2. Organisations with and existing oracle and partner applications ecosystem.
3. Scenario where the user base is on the higher side and organisations looking to scale up in near future.
4. Organisation with complex workflow need in identity management process.

Not well suited for
1. Small organisations or even medium ones which have a lesser number of applications
2. Scenarios where custom connectors need to be developed but at the same time turnaround should be quick.
3. Scenarios when features you are looking for are missing, getting them added could take a lot of effort.
4. UI is not very user-friendly and needs to be customised.
5. Takes time to stablise post going live

Return on Investment

Positive impact in terms of cost savings with regards to reduction in unwanted accounts, less turn around time for account provisioning leading to quick readiness of new users.
Negative impact- high investment of resources to start with, ROI realisation takes time (at least 2-3 years in many cases).
Negative impact - Bugs and patching lead to nightmare scenarios in SOC operations.

Alternatives Considered

ForgeRock OpenIDM and CA Identity Manager

OIM is a leader in the identity management space and appropriate for specific organisations and use cases. Where its competitors have an edge over cost and overall look and feel of product, OIM offers Oracle's vast experience of enterprise security products and compatibility with infrastructure applications. It melds well with other Oracle security products like OAM and OAAM. When cost is not a problem and you are ready to invest your resources for long-term OIM is preferable. It has its pros and cons as explained earlier, and should be selected on basis of specific needs.

Easy Tasks

Automated provisioning
Scheduler management
Password management

Difficult Tasks

User Interface
Custom adopters and connectors
Thread management and warning messages

Mobile Interface Availability and Impressions

Yes, but I don't use it

Usability

Overall good product and somewhat reliable when used in a specific manner. However, there are cons like unending bugs and no well-defined upgrade path. The product could have been more flexible and lite in terms of organisational infra needs. OIM is a robust product but other vendors are almost on-par now.

OIM. When and when not to.

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

July 12, 2017

Verified User

Vetted Review

Verified User

3 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used as a centralised access control and security system for the custom web application/mobile application developed for one of the government websites used by a little over 800 thousand active users. The main purpose of introducing OIM was to centralise the access control, reduce tickets by enabling self-service and have a proven and secured system in place.

Pros and Cons

It has a very well-defined and scalable framework (LDAP directory).
It scales particularly well, going from a basic platform to a complex one using customisation and extensions.
It integrates well with other components like SSO and Access Manager to provide comprehensive a one stop identity management solution.

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) is great if you have a huge organisation and a lot of users to support. It integrates particularly well if you want SSO and already use Oracle's business suit applications such as Oracle Business Intelligence. One of the most important things to keep in mind while deciding to go ahead with OIM is whether or not you have enough time, money and resources for its implementation because it can be very challenging and expensive.

Return on Investment

Fewer support tickets from users since they can use self-service to take care of most of the problem.
The implementation cost was a big issue especially since Oracle provides no out of box strategy and it is quite difficult to get a hold of expert consultants who can help you navigate it.
Since OIM provides a comprehensive suit for all your identity and access manager needs, it saves from having to buy multiple softwares to do the same job.

Alternatives Considered

VMware Identity Manager, Centrify Identity Service, ForgeRock OpenIDM and IdentityIQ

Of all the options mentioned here, we did consider VMware Identity Manager and Centrify Identity Service the most since we had just used these two for some of our implementation but we landed on OIM purely because the client had a lot of Oracle Business apps to integrate with and had a good experience with Oracle's team. Personally speaking, VMware Identity Manager is leaps and bound ahead in terms of documentation, interface and features. Also, it is ideal for smaller business as well as a big one.