Claimed to contain a set of access control, identity administration, provisioning and directory services capabilities, this offering aims to enable organisations to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of user identities across heterogeneous enterprise resources within and beyond their organisational boundaries, while also helping to streamline sustainable compliance policies and controls.

The solution is designed to integrate multiple key software solutions that Oracle has obtained through a combination of acquisitions and organic development, including Web access management, user provisioning, identity federation and directory services.

Built on open standards, Oracle Identity Management 10g Release 3 is said to be hot-pluggable and to interoperate with packaged applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracles JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, PeopleSoft Enterprise and Siebel applications, and SAP.

According to Oracle, each component of the solution features updates including enhanced internationalisation and localisation support for 28 languages.

Now more than ever, customers are looking for a comprehensive identity management software platform that can be implemented via a single licence and supported by a single vendor, says Hasan Rizvi, vice-president, Identity Management development at Oracle. Oracle Identity Management 10g Release 3 provides customers with an identity platform which increases business agility and helps to reduce costs and to achieve regulatory compliance, so that enterprises can get the most from existing and future IT investments.