By Elwood Philbrick, Envisn, Inc.
It’s likely that most Cognos environments seldom, if ever, get a self-audit of their security when in reality it’s a great opportunity to determine if key parts of...
By Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
Of all the areas of Cognos administration the one that appears to cause the most anxiety is security. This likely is the result of the fact that there are so many ways...
By Rick Ryan, Envisn, Inc.
No other area within Cognos is opaque as security. Within the application itself it’s difficult or impossible to get even the most basic questions answered without a lot of...
By Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
If you’re a Cognos administrator there’s lots of key information you just need to have access to, especially in the area of security. Here we’re going to focus on what...
By Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
This blog focuses on the biggest issues in the area of Cognos security as seen by Cognos administrators. It was collected informally from a series of questions...
By Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
Large, well established Cognos environments are often complex in how they are structured and...
By Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.This blog is focused on how to make visible the invisible in Cognos. Administrators need to be able to see Cognos Security the way they need to manage it.
By Gary Larsen, Envisn, Inc. One of the more misunderstood areas of Cognos Security is how object permissions are set and how they need to be managed within Cognos. In this blog article we’re going...
September 30, 2013, by Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.Cognos security is a key foundation of every successful Cognos BI environment. And while no environment likely ever fails because of security, unless...
By Elwood Philbrick, Envisn, Inc.On any listing of topics related to Cognos BI, security is almost always at or near the top. This subject area consumes more time and effort of administrators than...
