To begin with, I used Forgrock’s OpenAM to replace OpenSSO for obvious reasons – Oracle decided to put OpenSSO in maintenance mode. I also used Forgerock’s products (with significant customization though) to replace Sun IM/AM. Oracle has a complete suite of best-in-class IAM capabilities but the subscription costs were high and the support for customization is minimal.
I also take into the account that the maturity and support of Forgerock’s products are still evolving. There are several other criteria that I generally consider for evaluation though.
I used Forgerock’s products for the below reasons:
Governance/Compliance:
• Provides a simple upgrade from Sun OpenSSO to OpenAM and ForgeRock OpenIDM runs seamlessly with the Sun Identity Connector Framework
• Unified Platform
• Lightweight Infrastructure
• Connected Security
• Developer-friendly AM solution
Cost:
• Forgerock’s products are open source – it is one of the key differentiators.
• Generally configurable straight out of the box. OpenAM comes with a wide variety of built-in custom Authentication modules. And has ability to plug-in to the existing authentication modules.
Regards
Sam
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Tough question. Really depends upon requirements such as is it internal and/ or remote access required, integration with partners, multi-platform support and integration, SDK availability for Applications, etc. If its a corporate wide requirement and covers all the above than Oracle Identity suite would be a good one to look at. If your a large MS shop then probably sticking with their I&AM solutions would be best.
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Hi Ariel,
Thanks for your question.
To begin with, I used Forgrock’s OpenAM to replace OpenSSO for obvious reasons – Oracle decided to put OpenSSO in maintenance mode. I also used Forgerock’s products (with significant customization though) to replace Sun IM/AM. Oracle has a complete suite of best-in-class IAM capabilities but the subscription costs were high and the support for customization is minimal.
I also take into the account that the maturity and support of Forgerock’s products are still evolving. There are several other criteria that I generally consider for evaluation though.
I used Forgerock’s products for the below reasons:
Governance/Compliance:
• Provides a simple upgrade from Sun OpenSSO to OpenAM and ForgeRock OpenIDM runs seamlessly with the Sun Identity Connector Framework
• Unified Platform
• Lightweight Infrastructure
• Connected Security
• Developer-friendly AM solution
Cost:
• Forgerock’s products are open source – it is one of the key differentiators.
• Generally configurable straight out of the box. OpenAM comes with a wide variety of built-in custom Authentication modules. And has ability to plug-in to the existing authentication modules.
Regards
Sam
Hi Sam,
I'd be interested to hear why you chose ForgeRock. What have you found to be it's most valuable features?
Hi,
I am a Solution Architect and generally work with ForgeRock's IAM
solutions, Idaptive's IDAM suite and custom solutions using IdP, CAS,
Shibboleth, Terracotta.
Sam
Tough question. Really depends upon requirements such as is it internal and/ or remote access required, integration with partners, multi-platform support and integration, SDK availability for Applications, etc. If its a corporate wide requirement and covers all the above than Oracle Identity suite would be a good one to look at. If your a large MS shop then probably sticking with their I&AM solutions would be best.