ProTools Security Builder

FirstQuarter

Overview

Business intelligence is all about improving Corporate Performance by providing role access to information. ProTools will help you scale your deployments and clear complex security hurdles.

  • With ProTools you can simplify, centralize, and scale your Cognos deployments.
  • Implement complex security designs in less than a day
  • Cut security maintenance tasks by 90%
  • Centralize security administration
  • Address data security audit concerns

Having secured data is critical for organizations who: (a) need to grant access to data on a need to know basis, (b) who have data security audit concerns, or (c) who must comply with governmental regulations like SOX or HIPAA.
The ProTools solution is used by clients across all major industry sectors and for all functional areas where data level security is important.

Benefits

Business intelligence is all about sharing information, but often enterprises can only deploy after the security hurdle is cleared. ProTools helps you broadly secure and scale the deployment of your business intelligence applications.

With ProTools you can:

  • Reduce security maintenance tasks by 90% or more.
  • Broadly deploy role appropriate access to data.
  • Implement complex security designs in less than a day.
  • Simplify, centralize, and streamline security administration.
  • Address data security audit concerns

Features

A leading global healthcare products company was able to massively deployed security in ten highly complex cubes in less than 30 hours.  The effort to manually implement security would have been error prone and would have required weeks to implement and verify.

A leading document management company now implements complex security designs in less than a day and has cut security maintenance tasks by more than 90%.

A leading forest products company estimated that ProTools reduced their administrative burden related to security by more than 500,000 steps each time that they implemented security for a new financial reporting application.

Architecture

FirstQuarter’s ProTools solution is based on best practices and proven technologies for improving corporate performance of leading organizations. 

Fully integrated with IBM Cognos Series 7 and IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, FirstQuarter’s security solution, ProTools, enables you to increase performance, reduce total cost of ownership and raise Corporate Performance Management (CPM) to a new level.

ProTools is a unified security console for securing Cognos Business Inteligence.

  • Using a 3-step approach, a single application is used to coordinate security across all of Cognos BI.
    • Securing
    • Staging
    • Setup

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Availability

You can learn more about ProTools here www.firstquarter.net/protools
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