On the occasion of its one-year anniversary of Oracle’s purchase of Oblix, Oracle has achieved a bragging right. Namely, Oracle announced on May 8 that Gartner has plugged its Oracle Identity Manager tool into its Leaders Quadrant in the 1H06 User Provisioning Magic Quadrant report. Gartner tempered Oracle’s joy, however, by giving Oracle a grade of “Cautious Optimism”—the “likely highest possible grade,” according to Ray Wagner, research vice president at Gartner. “Integration continues,” Wagner said in his notes on the product, which is a component of the Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite. In a short time, it has amassed a very strong management team and IAM technology portfolio. Adding its January 2005 PeopleSoft acquisition for HR management, Oracle is positioning itself to be the ‘mover and shaker’ in the IAM market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Oracle’s acquisition of Thor was a good move because it had no UP product outside of its own Oracle product suite.<\/p>\n
Hasan Rizvi, vice president of Security and Identity Management Products for Oracle, said that the company has seen “good customer momentum” based on its original strategy when it entered the identity management arena by purchasing Oblix. That strategy had three parts: provide a complete suite of best-in-class components, to spare customers who were struggling with integrated individual components; help customers with application integration as they struggle to integrate identity management components with business applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft HR and Siebel CRM; and to allow heterogeneous support and standards support in order to facilitate identity management technology deployment.<\/p>\n
Oracle plans to announce four new Identity Manager customers on May 9: storage vendor Network Appliance; Gevity, a human resources outsourcing firm; Highmark, an insurance company; and Seguro Popular, a government agency in Mexico. <\/p>\n
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