OiM

Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) is an enterprise identity management and governance product developed by Oracle. It provides automated provisioning and lifecycle management for user identities and their access across an organization's applications and systems. OIM supports user onboarding and offboarding, password management, role-based access control, access requests, and workflow-driven approvals, as well as certification and auditing to support regulatory compliance. It serves as the provisioning engine within Oracle Identity Governance and is designed to work with Oracle and non‑Oracle targets through a library of connectors and adapters.

Typical deployments combine OIM with Oracle Access Management for authentication and with Oracle Identity Analytics for governance reporting. OIM is commonly run as a Java application on Oracle WebLogic Server, with data stored in an Oracle Database. It features a modular architecture that includes an administration console, workflow services, and a reconciliation/synchronization component to keep target systems in sync with identity data. The product supports multi-domain and large-scale environments, often in on‑premises deployments with options for cloud integration.

Organizations in regulated industries use OIM to manage lifecycle events, enforce access policies, and generate auditable records for audits. Over time Oracle has positioned OIM as the provisioning backbone of its Identity Governance suite, with ongoing enhancements for scalability, user experience, and cloud connectivity.

In other contexts, OIM can refer to terms or organizations unrelated to Oracle Identity Manager.