Oracle updates its Identity Manager tool

Oracle has released a new addition of its Identity Manager, version 9.1, adding new features to increase an organisation’s ability to comply with regulation and reduce the time it takes to complete an audit.

Hasan Rizvi, Oracle Identity Management and Security Products vice president, said “With this release, organisations can more rapidly experience the benefits identity provisioning delivers across their diverse IT environments.”

A new Graphical Workflow Designer is included in the release, designed to simplify the creation or workflows and help maintain their provisioning, while updates to Connector Wizards will help ease the creation of new connectors and streamline integration.

Nineteen new compliance and operational report templates will allow an organisation to increase its ability to streamline audit processes, while enhanced attestation capabilities will allow access privileges to be automated. The attestation process includes the reviewers, the data to be attested to, and the schedule for attestation activities.

Oracle’s identity management solution provides employees with one single identity for authentication across an enterprise’s many different registration systems.

The “HR-Driven Identity” solution was created by Oracle through combining two areas of its business; its Human Capital Management (HCM) application, which manages all the people aspects in human resources or payroll, and its technology Access Management system.

According to the firm the new technology was a response to regulation, such as Sarbanes-Oxley 2002, which has put increasing external pressure on businesses to show good governance and produce categorical reports on which employees have access to each system.

Individuals holding different identities within an organisation creates a considerable business risk and management overhead for employers. If identities can be consolidated, automated and tied to the initial identity provided to individuals by human resources, organisations will reduce costs, improve efficiencies and defraud its environment, it said.

Author: Rosalie Marshall @ www.itweek.co.uk

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Swedish Medical implements Oracle suite to support EMR system

Oracle has announced that Swedish Medical Center, a healthcare provider, has deployed components of the Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite - Oracle Universal Content Management and Oracle Imaging and Process Management - to deliver a content-enabled electronic medical record system that helps ensure patient information is available when and where a provider needs it.

Oracle enterprise content management software also facilitated Swedish Medical Center's electronic medical record (EMR) training initiative, helping the organization ensure an on-time rollout. Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite is a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

The new EMR system is accelerating the creation and management of patient records. One clinic, for example, had a basic patient records management system that required approximately 12 steps to pull information from faxes, attribute it to a specific patient and incorporate the data into the patient's record.

Swedish Medical Center's new EMR system uses Oracle Imaging and Process Management to complete this task in only four steps, freeing staff to focus on other responsibilities. Swedish Medical Center also slashed the time that it took to assemble training materials for new and existing processes from 24 hours to as little as 4 hours for major productions, and even less time for individual manual productions.

Source: www.cbronline.com

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BSNL Inks With Oracle

Monday, the media reported that Bharat Sanchar Nigam inked a deal with Oracle that comprise Oracle applications, Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware that would drive BSNL's aggressive growth plans and enhance customer service delivery. Oracle would also provide BSNL with Siebel CRM to provide next-generation services to customers.

The Chairman and Managing Director of BSNL, Kuldeep Goyal, said that the company has undertaken a decisive step towards extensive deployment of IT solutions for enhancing customer service and enabling faster rollout of services. The project seeks to enhance customer service delivery across the organization and would be able to enhance customer care and would reduce operational costs and increase revenue realization for effectively meeting the new challenges in the telecom sector.

BSNL has 7 core customers across the country and plans to invest extensively in technology.

Source: www.nasdaq.com

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