Understanding Oracle Fusion Middle and Oracle Identity Management

Oracle Fusion Middleware-

It is a collection of standards based software products that spans a range of tools and services.
It entails
JAVA EE and developer tools
Integration Services
Business Intelligence
Collaboration

Oracle Fusion Middleware offers complete support for
-Development
-Deployment
-Management

Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control-

It is a web browser based GUI that you can use to monitor and administer Oracle Fusion Middleware components including Oracle Identity Management Components that are installed in Oracle Weblogic Server domains.

Oracle Identity Management-

It enables enterprises to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of user identities across all enterprise resources-both within and beyond the firewall.

Within OIM , you can

• Deploy applications faster
• Apply the most granular protection to enterprise resources
• Automatically eliminate latent access privileges
• and Much more..

Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 1(11.1.1.5.0) Components


Oracle Internet Directory                                   (OID)
Oracle Directory Integration Platform                (ODIP)
Oracle Virtual Directory                                     (OVD)
Oracle Directory Services Manager                   (ODSM)
Oracle Identity Federation                                 (OIF)

Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0) Components

Oracle Identity Manager                                   (OIM)
Oracle Access Manager                                   (OAM)
Oracle Adaptive Access Manager                    (OAAM)
Oracle Identity Navigator                                 (OIN)
Oracle Entitlement Server                                  (OES)

Spl Instructions for Oracle Single Sign On (OSSO) and Oracle Delegated Admin Services Users

OSSO and Oracle Delegated Admin Services are reqd components for

• Oracle Portal
• Forms
• Reports
• Discoverer Release 10g and Release 11g

There are no (11.1.1) versions  of OSSO and Oracle Delegated Admin Services
If you have OSSO 10g (10.1.2.3 or 10.1.4.3) installed on your topology, upgrade OSSO on 10g to Oracle Access Manager 11g.
NOTE- Installing OSSO 10g for use with OID 11g Rel1(11.1.1.5.0) is not supported
You can continue to use OSSO 10g or Oracle Delegated Admin Services Rel10g with OID Rel10g