Oracle Identity Management vs. Oracle Identity and Access Management

Oracle naming convention for their products confuses a lot of people. Well, I am one of them. I recently started looking into the Fusion Applications (11.1.1.5.0) and found that the identity management is split into 2 separate installations.

One is the Oracle Identity Management and the other Oracle Identity and Access Management.

As of 11g (11.1.1.5.0)

Oracle Identity Management includes:

• Oracle Internet Directory
• Oracle Directory Integration Platform
• Oracle Virtual Directory
• Oracle Directory Services Manager
• Oracle Identity Federation
• Oracle HTTP Server (hmm...)

Oracle Identity and Access Management includes:

• Oracle Access Manager Server (also includes WebGate)
• Oracle Adaptive Access Manager
• Oracle Identity Manager
• Oracle Identity Navigator
• Oracle Security Token Service
• Oracle Entitlements Server

All of these can be logically divided in to 3 categories.

- Directory Service
- Access Management 
- Identity Management