Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Overview

Oracle Identity Manager is a highly flexible and scalable enterprise identity management system that controls user accounts and access privileges within enterprise IT resources centrally. It provides the functionalities of provisioning, identity and role administration, approval and request management, policy-based entitlement management, technology integration, and audit and compliance automation.
Features and benefits of Oracle Identity Manager include identity and role administration (user and group management, self-service functionalities for users, and delegated administration), provisioning (approval and request management, and configurable workflow models), policy-based entitlements, reconciliation, and attestation support (for audit and compliance purposes).
There are two levels of customization that Linda can perform with the Administrative Console:
Modifying the look and feel of the console (that is, branding it)
Changing the functionality of the console without modifying the Oracle Identity Manager codeThere are different ways by which Linda can brand the Administrative Console, including:
Customizing the overall layout of the Web pages of the console
Adding Mydo Main's corporate logo to the console
Modifying the descriptive text and labels that appear on the Web pages of the console
Changing the color, font, and alignment of text in the console There are also various ways by which Linda can change the functionality of the Administrative Console without modifying the code, including:
Customizing the behavior of the form fields that appear on the Web pages of the console
Customizing the search pages of the console
In this OBE, Linda uses the methods listed in this section to customize the Oracle Identity Manager Administrative Console for Mydo Main Corporation.