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Implement complex security designs in less than a day.
Cut security maintenance tasks by 90%.
Centralize security administration.
Business intelligence is all about improving Corporate Performance by providing role access to information. Security Studio will help you scale your deployments and clear complex security hurdles.With Security Studio you can simplify, centralize, and scale your Cognos deployments.
The Security Hurdle
Security typically becomes an issue when timing is tight and deployment is near.
Administrator needs:
- Ability to deploy role appropriate access to data broadly
- Ability to implement complex security designs quickly
- Minimize the time spent on maintenance and administration
- Centralize deployment of security
- Secure data in a consistent manner regardless of technologies
- Ability to implement security in several products concurrently
Secured data is critical for organizations who:
- Need to grant access to data on a need to know basis
- Must comply with governmental regulations like SOX or HIPAA
- Have security audit concerns (on-going)
Administrator complexities:
- Security is tied to license controls
- Security is forever changing
- Regulatory requirements require administrators to maintain historical details regarding security access controls
- Resources to implement security
Security Challenges
Organizations want to turn information into competitive advantage, but the more information they deliver, the greater the volume of security concerns. Implementing security for most organizations is a cascading challenge.
- Security must be implemented 100% correctly, 100% of the time
- Even small security deployments require tens of thousands of steps to implement
- Security implementation is an iterative approach, one product at a time
- Security implementation can be time consuming, difficult and error prone
Corporate Performance Management solutions are often scaled initiatives.
As organizations continue to add tools to their CPM technologies, security must also be applied. This can result in additional security interfaces requiring increased maintenance efforts and costs.
When security is complex to deploy, CPM benefits are slower to realize.
The following can be adversely affected:
- Decision making
- Collaboration
- Productivity
- ROI
- Accuracy & timeliness
Current Approach
Deploying Security for Cognos Business Intelligence
- Coordinate security into and between underlying namespaces
- Create Groups
- Create corresponding filters and permissions and associate with the group
- Associate user with groups or role appropriate view of data
Completing these steps for even a small deployment can require hundreds of thousands of manual steps.
Security Studio Solutions
Security Studio Features
- Consistent methodology and approach regardless of technologies
- Single interface where security is created
- Tools for implementing highly complex security matrices
- Means of handling multiple security designs across many Cognos projects
- Security reporting. Security Studio provides a family of reports that confirm the security configuration
Security Studio Benefits
- Realize ROI in the first 30 days
- Easily implement Cognos security broadly
- Provide role appropriate access to content and data
- Reduce security deployment, administration and maintenance by as much as 90%
- Confirm security configurations easily
- Eliminate repetitive manual updates in multiple environments, where data entry errors are common
- Implement complex security easily and quickly
- Enables BI teams to focus on innovation rather than security
