Cognos 8.3 and Security
With the introduction of ReportNet and Cognos 8 in the 2004/2005 timeframe, Cognos began pursuing an open systems approach related to namespace support. The basic concept behind this approach is that: authentication would come from the 3rd party namespace and that specific grant to content and data could be maintained via a number of namespace options. While these changes have been favorable to clients from an infrastructure perspective, they have raised other administrative complexities that are worthy of discussion. With the introduction of Cognos 8.3, Cognos has made another strategic improvement to the BI platform – adding an open security model to its multi-dimensional tool. A key improvement Transformer 8.3 is its ability to integrate with 3rd party namespaces.