REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The industry's most comprehensive, best-in-class identity management suite, Oracle(R) Identity Management, is experiencing significant customer and partner momentum, positioning Oracle as a key player in the identity management space in 2006.
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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 their compliance needs. Recent milestones include the acquisition and successful integration of industry-leading identity technologies and teams from OctetString, Oblix and Thor Technologies; rapidly growing global customer roster with more than 10,000 developer downloads; dedicated internal sales force; announcement of the Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite and Oracle Identity Management 10g Release 3; introduction of Oracle Security Developer Tools; receipt of industry accolades; expanded partnership network; and added support for key industry standards.
Customers and Accolades
Oracle Identity Management has generated an unprecedented number of customer wins spanning multiple industries and geographies. Some of these include: Avago, Bechtel, Cinergy, iNuntius, MTA Long Island Rail Road, Orient Overseas Container Line, Phoenix Technologies, Seguro Popular, U.S. Script Inc. and Volkswagen Credit.
Additionally, individual components of the product family have garnered several prestigious industry accolades for a global investment bank that uses Oracle's product and boasts the world's largest enterprise identity management solution. In 2005 alone, the bank received awards from leading IT publications, including Computerworld, InfoWorld, Network World and SC Magazine, as well as a leading industry analyst firm. In comparative reviews, Oracle's identity products were positively recognized by Network World and InfoWorld.
Expanded Partner Initiatives
Oracle has continued to cultivate new and existing partnerships to further the company's identity and access technologies. These include establishment of channel partnerships with numerous partners such as Allstream, CPSG, Entology, Inc. LogicTrends, Midwave, Mythics, Inc., Nulli Secundus, Tevora Business Solutions and TUSC. In order to better serve partners, the company plans to launch the Oracle Security and Identity Management Partner Initiative, enabling incremental go-to-market activities for select security and identity management partners in order to provide joint customers with comprehensive solutions.
"Automation and roles management are critical components to an organization's overall compliance strategy," said Mark Tice, CEO BridgeStream. "Our business roles automation technology paired with Oracle Identity Management delivers customers the enterprise-level security and compliance automation technologies needed to help satisfy regulatory requirements across numerous industries."
Leader in Standards
Support for industry standards is a critical element of Oracle's approach to identity management. During the past year, Oracle has held leadership positions within the Liberty Alliance and was an active participant in the Standards Convergence Working Group and the Conformance, Public Policy, Business and Marketing, Technology and Strong Authentication Expert Groups. As a Board member of OASIS and a member of the Technical Advisory Board, Oracle also serves as the co-chair for SSTC (SAML) and a voting member of WSS and WS-SX. It is also a Board member of WS-I and serves as a contributor to WS-I "Basic Security Profile" and "Threats and Counter-Measures" documents. In addition to ongoing support for various security-related industry standards, Oracle passed SAML 2.0 interoperability testing.
"In 2005, Oracle achieved major milestones and firsts for our identity management initiatives," said Hasan Rizvi, vice president, Oracle Identity Management development, Oracle. "Our business objectives were exceeded on all fronts, including product delivery, customer acquisition, execution of key partner initiatives and an increase in overall market visibility. In 2006, we plan to continue to build out this infrastructure to support our customers and partners as the market demand for identity management increases."
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