{"id":8098,"date":"2015-06-18T16:49:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T20:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/?p=8098"},"modified":"2015-06-18T16:49:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T20:49:58","slug":"is-oam-alone-enough-or-should-i-also-learn-oimsoa-for-apps-dba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/18\/is-oam-alone-enough-or-should-i-also-learn-oimsoa-for-apps-dba\/","title":{"rendered":"Is OAM alone enough or should I also learn OIM\/SOA for Apps DBA ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently launched <a href=\"http:\/\/k21technologies.com\/oracle-access-manager-oam-training\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oracle Access Manager Training<\/a>\u00a0(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">next batch starting on 6th July<\/span>),\u00a0one question that I&#8217;ve seen quite regularly is &#8220;<strong>I am an Oracle Apps DBA and learning OAM alone (without OIM\/SOA and WebLogic) with Apps DBA will give me better opportunity\u00a0or is it required to learn entire Identity Management Suite<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since OAM\/OIM is very close to my heart (I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Oracle-Identity-Access-Manager-Administrators\/dp\/1849682682\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1434658555&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=oracle+access+manager+identity\" target=\"_blank\">my first book<\/a> on this topic) and I meet lot of Apps DBAs with\u00a0similar question, I thought I should cover this question here .<\/p>\n<p>Before I answer this question, let me first explain about OAM\/OAM\/SOA and other IAM products. <strong>Oracle Access Manager<\/strong> is recommended <strong>Web Single Sign-On<\/strong> product from <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/01\/oracle-identity-management-products-oid-ovd-oam-oim-orm-owsm-oif-esso-oes-oaam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oracle Identity &amp; Access Management Suite<\/a> where other products include OIM, OID, OUD, OVD, OES, OMS, OAAM, OES, eSSO etc<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oracle Identity Manager<\/strong> is identity provisioning and management product that uses Oracle SOA Suite for approval based workflows and as Orchestration engine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OAM<\/strong> and <strong>OIM<\/strong> products can be <strong>implemented independently<\/strong> and if you need just Single Sign-On (or Access Management) then Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) is <strong>not<\/strong> required . If you are using Oracle E-Business Suite (App R12) and just require SSO integration with <strong>Microsoft Active Directory<\/strong> (MS-AD)\/Windows Native Authentication or with other oracle products like OBIEE, WebCenter etc then OIM\/SOA is <strong>not<\/strong> required.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, it is better to know more so learning OIM will definitely help but I always believe in starting with small (keep things simple). I learnt OAM (<strong>Oblix<\/strong> that time) in 2003 and started OIM (<strong>Xelleterate<\/strong> at that time) 2 years later in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> OAM is deployed on <strong>WebLogic Server<\/strong> so basic WebLogic Concepts must also be learnt as part of OAM hence <strong>we cover<\/strong> WebLogic Domain, Admin\/Managed Servers, Pack\/Unpack, JDBC etc in our <a href=\"http:\/\/k21technologies.com\/oracle-access-manager-oam-training\/\" target=\"_blank\">OAM 11gR2 Training\/Workshop<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip for Apps DBAs to get better day rate\/bigger role<\/strong> : Learn OAM\u00a0and integrate EBS (R12) with OAM for Single Sign-On .<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Having any doubt on what topics to learn then check what our <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/17\/how-to-learn-oracle-access-manager-oam-11gr2\/\" target=\"_blank\">OAM experts have to say<\/a>\u00a0 or leave a comment here for any other query<\/span> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently launched Oracle Access Manager Training\u00a0(next batch starting on 6th July),\u00a0one question that I&#8217;ve seen quite regularly is &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trainings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is OAM alone enough or should I also learn OIM\/SOA for Apps DBA ? 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