Scribing Template --Friday, Oct 5, 2012 at 1pm Salon 5

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TOPIC: Oracle Identity Manager

CONVENER: Steve Carmondy

SCRIBE: Jon Miner

# of ATTENDEES: 9

MAIN ISSUES DISCUSSED 

  • Can we share code between our instances?  Kara - she believes we can, but will need to get an official answer from Oracle.  We will need to worry about licensing for code that uses licensed adapters.
  • Is there a restriction on using APIs?  Kara - Oracle doesn't have any restrictions, as long as OIM is licensed.
  • We can create a closed site to share code between our schools
  • Most of the work isn't done in the install, it's in the post-install configuration.  That's the hard part, need to get knowledge transfer from consultants.
  • Mark Ernest - Identity Works, LLC -- formerly Penn State, consultant on OIM, knows what he's doing.
    • Working well, for CMU
    • Transferring knowledge effectively with CMU
  • Pub City Media from New Jersey -- good.
  • Is there a way to get a conduit to product management from Higher Ed?  Kara thinks so.
  • We would like a point-person from Product Management so that we are all talking to the same person about features and so-forth.
  • We have a different timescale than commercial entities, we have long-term projects, no quick turn-around.
  • Generic Technology Connector -- rumored to be removed with r2 patch, Q3 2013.  Kara doesn't believe so, will find out.
    • Additional question:  Is there a change that will break it?
    • Our timeframes are so large, we need to know well in advance when things are going to go away.
  • Community OIM mailing list -- No Oracle representation.  Need to determine how we communicate information from the list to Oracle
    • Need to work with Oracle sales support, and Oracle PMs.
    • Working with Oracle will help all of us.
  • OIM has a reputation for requiring a lot of effort 
  • We can help Oracle by working with betas/etc to improve products, and Oracle will benefit by our being happy as reference customers and in bringing new customers.
  • CMU is using OIM for provisioning only, too many issues with OIM as IdM (lack of multi-values, etc).
  • We need to work as a community and share solutions, code, etc.  We are writing the same connectors over-and-over.
  • Duke has code out in github for AD connector and other OIM code.
  • Idea from Rob: Can CIFER produce a bunch of standard connectors that we can use a general pluggable interface to connect to OIM?
    • Need to keep the OIM and CIFER worlds talking to each other.
    • Need to define APIs, etc.
  • Oracle Fusion will bring OIM as the identity system for the Student and HCM systems.
  • How do we fit OIM in to the space with Federated users and Social Identities?  We aren't mastering identity or assigning identifies
    • Kara wants to work with us to get that info from us to the products.

ACTIVITIES GOING FORWARD / NEXT STEPS

  • Community OIM may turn in to a HEUG-like area?  We should push to have an Identity Management portion of HEUG.  Probably do not want to collapse the I2 community, though.
  • Kara will get back to us one questions
    • Sharing code
    • Product management
    • API restrictions
    • GTC end-of-life
  • Need to push to get membership on list from I2.  Kara will work to get us a list of customers.
  • Reports from people implementing to the community list

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Thank you!

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