Post on 15-Jul-2015
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Comparing Oracle Identity Manager
to Forefront Identity Manager
Either, OIM or FIM may be
the perfect solution depending
on the circumstances
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Forefront Identity Manager
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What’s more, FIM when
integrated with Azure,
can also handle IDM for
third party applications
such as Salesforce.com or
custom cloud applications
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So what are FIM's key benefits?
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1. It is intuitive to learn in
MS environments
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2. It is easy to integrate and
synchronize cloud and
SaaS applications via Azure
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3. Improves security
through supporting
both on-premises and
cloud applications
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4. FIM has a broadly supported
workflow engine
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5. FIM supports dynamic
groups and team based
workflows
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However, there are some
weaknesses:
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1. FIM does not support role
based access control or
external role based
access control for
custom applications
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2. FIM cannot support flow
chart workflows or publish
workflows as web services
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3. FIM also doesn't support
report designer or have
many pre-built reports
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4. FIM also doesn't support
a 'High Availability'
architecture for
automatic failover
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Oracle Identity Manager
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OIM differs from FIM
because it uses a role-based
authorization rather than
the MS AD object model
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1. OIM has a scalable
multi-instance
synchronization engine
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2. Supports High Availability
and automatic failover
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3. Centralized authorization
for entitlement aware
applications
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4. Supports non-sequential
workflows
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5. Can publish workflows
as web services
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6. Has a report creator/editor
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Bottom Line
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FIM may be easier to use but
lacks features and functionality
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How do you compare
FIM with OIM, which one suits
your business, and why?
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