This document extends the Advisory Note #70,607 “Migration Options for your Legacy Provisioning” and focuses on Oracle's Waveset Identity Provisioning system which is also historically known as Sun Identity Management/Manager or, in short, SIM, which before the acquisition of Waveset by Sun was named Waveset Lighthouse. The product will usually be called Waveset IDM (Identity Management) throughout this report, using Sun Identity Management or Waveset Lighthouse only when it is relevant to differentiate between historical releases.
Identity provisioning systems are systems which aren’t easy to deploy, and the value of changing from one product to another is frequently hard to justify. Unfortunately there are cases where you have no other choice. You need one or multiple new functionalities that are lacking in your current systems and too difficult or expensive to add; your legacy system is turning end of life; the ratio of cost of maintenance versus cost of replacement increases annually while functionalities decrease with every customization you need to make. There are many other situations, which are discussed in detail in #70,607...
