In computing, Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)[1] enables enterprises to manage the entire user life-cycle across all enterprise resources both within and beyond a firewall.
Within Oracle Identity Management it provides a mechanism for implementing the user-management aspects of a corporate policy.
[citation needed] It can also audit users and their access privileges.
[citation needed] It was earlier a Thor Technologies product - after Oracle Corporation acquired Thor (2005), OIM 9i was released.
In July 2012 Oracle released OIM 11g R2 There are five different types of adapters used for different tasks as listed below: