Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) June 05, 2013
Motio, Inc., the leading provider of software for extending and automating IBM Cognos, announced these days that HealthPort has leveraged Persona IQ to transition authentication for all Cognos platforms from Access Manager to Active Directory.

For virtually a decade, HealthPort has utilized IBM Cognos to guide them with strategic choices at all levels of the company. Tens of thousands of hospitals, wellness systems and clinics rely on HealthPort information and audit management technologies options to securely exchange protected health details although complying with HIPPA regulations.

“One particular of our current initiatives has been to consolidate the authentication of numerous current applications against a frequent, tightly controlled Active Directory infrastructure, said Lisa Kelley, HealthPort Director of Monetary Reporting. This presented substantial challenges for our Cognos applications, which have historically authenticated against a separate Access Manager instance.

Discovering a resolution which minimized risk and assured that our existing security policies remained intact was extremely crucial to us, said Kelley. We identified Persona and were right away interested due to the fact it seemed like a streamlined way of managing our predicament. Were on Cognos 10 but have been utilizing Access Manager for safety. Our key requirement was to be on Active Directory and we necessary a answer for that. We were extremely impressed with the smoothness of the transition.

Like several IBM Cognos customers, HealthPort discovered that migrating their Cognos applications from one particular authentication supply to one more was going to produce a sizable amount of function for their BI and testing teams. Migrating from one authentication source to an additional not only causes the CAMIDs of users, groups and roles to alter, but also impacts every thing from security policies to scheduled deliveries and information level safety. In the case of HealthPort, were talking about an organization which has invested a considerable amount of time and power in cautiously configuring and verifying the security policies which govern each BI application and the information which it exposes, mentioned Lance Hankins, CTO of Motio.

If we had attempted this transition manually, there would have been a huge quantity of perform involved, said Lovemore Nyazema, HealthPort BI Architect Lead. Manually obtaining and updating all of the suitable user, group and part references and then re-verifying access and information level security wouldve been a far a lot more high-priced and error-prone procedure.

The special and patent-pending capability of Persona to migrate Cognos environments in between authentication sources with no affecting the CAMIDs of customers, groups and roles ensured that all of the HealthPort Cognos content, schedules and safety configuration continued to function precisely as before.

HealthPort is also utilizing the audited impersonation feature of Persona, which empowered their Cognos administrators to improve the way user-reported problems are resolved. Persona is a a lot much more safe solution. From a safety and HIPPA point of view, we get a controlled viewport in the Cognos environment that makes it possible for us to see the problems our finish-users are reporting with out obtaining to have access to these customers Active Directory credentials, said Nyazema.

HealthPort is also benefitting from the ability of Persona to blend centrally controlled principals from Active Directory with departmentally controlled principals defined only in the BI realm. Persona provides us the independence to do what we want to do as a BI group even though nevertheless adhering to our corporate authentication standards. We dont have to make requests to one more division to create and manage roles and groups which are really particular to the BI applications, mentioned Nyazema.

A complete case study on HealthPorts use of Persona IQ is available for download on the Motio website.

About HealthPort
HealthPort is the authority on the compliant exchange of protected wellness info by way of release of details solutions and comprehensive audit management technology. More than 13,000 hospitals, wellness systems, physician practices and clinics nationwide use HealthPorts established overall health info options to mitigate breach threat, improve financial performance and increase requester satisfaction.

About Motio, Inc.
Motio is an IBM Premier Business Companion, supplying a suite of eight items, which are developed to streamline Cognos and ensure that BI implementations execute in their perfect state. Motio’s software program portfolio consists of MotioCI, a answer that supplies version manage, release management and automated testing for Cognos, and MotioPI, a cost-free tool made to ease cumbersome tasks in Cognos. Motios product suite aims to help Cognos developers, empower Cognos administrators, enrich the encounter of BI consumers, and simplify the management of Cognos installations. Motio strives to develop computer software solutions that improve the velocity of BI improvement teams by guiding them to function smarter and enabling them to make more consistent, correct and performant BI content in significantly less time.