This IDC Flash looks at Oracle's Identity Management 11g R2. This is a significant release. Oracle has consolidated its entire spectrum of identity and access management (IAM) offerings into three main categories to simplify customer deployments and allow them to easily leverage the security and governance options within the Oracle portfolio to gain full business advantage. With this release, Oracle is providing customers with Privileged User Management, which is critical to companies looking to increase security while meeting compliance demands. This applies to both on-premise and cloud-hosted environments.