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!