Identity Access Management Services
Escaping the “Legacy IAM” Trap.
Oracle IAM 11g and CA SiteMinder are reaching End-of-Life. We provide a structured escape route from expensive on-prem technical debt to modern cloud governance—without the multi-year timeline.
The Problem
The “Burning Platform”
Why Staying on Legacy is Not an Option Your identity system was state-of-the-art in 2012. Today, it’s a liability. Organizations clinging to Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) or SiteMinder face a perfect storm of risks:
- The Support Cliff: Oracle 12c extended support ends in 2027. Broadcom’s acquisition of CA has led to skyrocketing renewal costs and “ghost town” support for SiteMinder.
- The “Spaghetti Code” Trap: Years of custom Java connectors and hardcoded scripts mean nobody on your current team actually knows how the system works.
- The Cloud Blocker: Legacy WAM (Web Access Management) tools struggle to integrate with modern SaaS apps, forcing you to maintain expensive, redundant infrastructure.
The Talent Gap: Finding engineers who still know OIM or SiteMinder is becoming impossible (and incredibly expensive).
The Solution:
The Airitos Migration Accelerator
Headline: Migration Without the “Big Bang” Risk We don’t believe in “rip and replace” disasters. Our methodology de-risks the transition by running parallel environments, ensuring zero downtime for your users.
Phase 1: The “Archaeology” Assessment (Weeks 1-4) We reverse-engineer your undocumented legacy environment. We map every custom connector, policy, and workflow to understand exactly what business logic must be preserved (and what can be discarded).
- Outcome: A complete inventory of “Technical Debt” vs. “Business Logic.”
Phase 2: The Parallel Build (Weeks 5-12) We stand up your modern target state (SailPoint, Okta, Entra ID) alongside your legacy stack. We implement a “strangler pattern” to gradually shift traffic, allowing you to validate applications one by one.
- Outcome: A working modern environment with zero user impact.
Phase 3: The Cutover & Decommission (Weeks 13+) Once parity is confirmed, we flip the switch. We handle the complex data migration, user cutover, and—most importantly—the safe decommissioning of your legacy servers.
- Outcome: Legacy license costs eliminated.
Specific Migration Paths
Oracle IAM (OIM/OAM) to SailPoint/Saviynt Moving from OIM’s heavy customization to SailPoint’s configuration-first model requires a mindset shift. We map your complex OIM approvals and reconciliations to modern IGA standards.
- We Handle: Java-to-BeanShell translation, custom connector replacement, and historical data migration.
CA SiteMinder to Okta/Ping/Entra ID SiteMinder agents are embedded deep in your web servers. Ripping them out is high-risk. We use “gateway” patterns to modernize authentication without rewriting every application immediately.
- We Handle: Agent removal, header-based auth translation, and session management continuity.
Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) Modernization MIM is dead; long live Entra ID Governance. We help organizations migrate their sync engines and provisioning logic to the cloud, retiring the last on-prem synchronization server.
- We Handle: FIM/MIM sync rule translation and MA (Management Agent) replacement.
Success Story
Eliminating $1M in Annual Oracle Support Costs The Challenge: A global manufacturing firm was paying $1.2M annually for Oracle IAM support but couldn’t upgrade from 11g due to heavy customizations. The Airitos Approach:
- Month 2: Mapped 400+ applications and 50 custom connectors.
- Month 4: Deployed SailPoint IdentityNow for governance.
- Month 6: Cut over all access request workflows and shut down the OIM development environment. The Result: Reduced IAM operating costs by 60% and enabled the client to pass their ISO 27001 audit for the first time in 3 years.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Do we have to rewrite all our applications to migrate off SiteMinder? A: No. We use “Identity Gateway” patterns (like Okta Access Gateway or PingAccess) that sit in front of your legacy apps. This allows the app to “think” it’s still talking to SiteMinder while actually being secured by modern cloud auth.
Q: Can you migrate our historical access data? A: Yes. For compliance reasons, we often migrate 7 years of access request history into a data warehouse or the new IGA platform so you don’t lose your audit trail.
Q: What if we have customizations that modern tools don’t support? A: We often find that 50% of “customizations” are actually workarounds for features that are now standard in modern tools. For the rest, we use low-code workflows (like SailPoint Workflows or Okta Workflows) to replicate the logic without writing custom Java code.