One Ring to Rule Them All – Managing Security in a Complex Business Intelligence Realm

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William DeMoville, The University of Texas at Austin

In a large, complex enterprise with various authorization authorities, plethora of databases, and myriad business intelligence tools (Cognos and Tableau) laid on top of those systems, managing user security can be a time-consuming, hair-pulling experience. The University of Texas at Austin has begun work on a system aimed at simplifying the administrator experience, increasing administrator productivity, and ensuring users have a consistent and pleasant security experience across all platforms currently in use. Join us to learn about how we modernized our lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP), connected our Business Intelligence tools and databases to it, and created a web-based service on top of it all to provide visibility and user-friendly management.