What’s New in Oracle Identity Manager 11gR2 PS3?

Since autumn 2014, I have been keenly participating in workshops and demonstrations conducted by Oracle to announce features of Oracle Identity Management 11gR2 PS3. However, I decided not to pen my thoughts about it until the release date is formally announced. The official date for release has still not been announced until now but expected release date is somewhere in current month (April 2015).

Below are some of the main features that have been announced in Oracle Identity Manager 11gR2 PS3.

• Business Friendly Self Service Experience

UI Simplification has been a continued agenda item for Oracle’s Identity Manager which is further improved in PS3. Self Service Dashboard has been made very simple and Tablet-Friendly for end users. The icons also show notification badge/count of pending tasks and actions that require user attention. See below screenshot for icons of Certifications, My Open Tasks and Pending Approvals.

• Intelligent Access Catalog

The selection of accesses in a request has been made simple through guided navigation, recommendations on the basis of pre-defined & user access criteria and smart search form. 

The user will be provided a list of recommended accesses as well as a new tab to request bundles of accesses together. The bundle of similar accesses has been made available through Request Profile feature. A good use case would be a request profile of all accesses, mandatory for new hires with the name of “On-Boarding accesses”.

Start and End Date of an access can also be mentioned while requesting an access.

• Preventative SOD Analysis

SOD Analysis has been made efficient and preventative by warning user about violation before the submission of request. User can submit request with violations of security policy, which will be shown to approvers as well. Also it will be marked as high risk during Access Certification process.

• Intelligent and Flexible Certifications

UI for Certification process has also been made simple and business friendly. I am not going to write detail of Certification Tasks and Approval screens one by one but following screenshots are quite self-explanatory.

• Comprehensive Role Lifecycle Management

Role Management has also been made available in Oracle Identity Manager and simple for business users to create and change easily. Comprehensive role analytics allows business users to see the impact of new roles and changes to existing ones.

Role Owners can reduce role explosion by reviewing the effectiveness of existing roles and consolidate new roles with existing one. Comprehensive auditing and prior versions of roles has also been made visible to Role Owners.

I will cover Access Management, Directory Services and Mobile Security parts of PS3 after official release of the product, so stay tuned :)