One More Time! Oracle Tops Gartners Provisioning List

Oracle Announced this morning that they were again named the leader in Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning".

The Gartner Magic Quadrant ranks vendors based on their completeness of vision and their ability to execute on that vision. This is indicative of a dramatic evolution in the Identity & Access Management Market over the nearly 5 years since CA announced their acquisition of Netegrity.

The move sparked a shift from focusing on Web Single Sign-On to end-to-end suites for Identity and Access Management and lead to the spending spree at Oracle which put together this leading suite of products and market vision. In total, Oracle brought together technology from 9 IAM innovators to develop this market leading technology suite:

• Phaos - Now Oracle Identity Federation (OIF)
• Oblix - Now Oracle Access Manager (OAM)
• Confluent - Now Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM)
• Thor - Now Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)
• Bridgestream - Now Oracle Role Manager (ORM)
• Bharosa - Now Oracle Adaptive Access Manager (OAAM)
• PassLogix OEM - Now Oracle Enterprise SSO (OESSO)
• BEA ALES - Now Oracle Entitlements Server (OES)
• BEA WebLogic Security Services - Now OPSS

One of the pioneers in this evolution had this comment on the announcement;

"With roles, rules and policies continually evolving within the enterprise, organizations need strong user provisioning solutions to streamline security, achieve increasing levels of automation and efficiency and ensure sustainable compliances," said Amit Jasuja, vice president, Oracle Identity Management. "We are pleased to be recognized as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning, and remain committed to delivering the most secure, comprehensive and scalable solutions to customers."

Looking at the full Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning it is interesting to note that with Sun in the top 3 as well it is clear that this market is heading for further evolution but more importantly innovation that will directly benefit customers and technology providers leveraging an increasingly mature, standardized, IAM suite across each layer of the application stack regardless of the deployment model.

Here is the link to the
press release.