iGuard
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From the publisher website or publicity Manages Application Users, Protects Systems - Automatically Business intelligence and data warehouse applications are subject to unpredictable usage from growing numbers of people, all seeking quick access to better data. Unknowingly and inevitably, these users issue inappropriate, unauthorized, or "runaway" reports and queries that deliver inaccurate results, breach data privacy/governance policies or degrade performance of the entire system. In response, Teleran offers iGuard, a patented predictive user governance and database protection facility, designed for use with business intelligence, data warehouse, corporate reporting, CRM and other enterprise applications. iGuard prevents a wide range of user problems commonly associated with application use. It protects the database from inappropriate and wasteful queries, improves overall system performance, enforces compliance and corporate governance policies and increases user productivity. The Data Warehousing Institute "The Data Warehousing Institute sponsors the annual Pioneering Product Award to recognize innovative solutions that will most likely revolutionize the practice of data warehousing. Teleran’s iGuard was the clear winner, having met TDWI’s evaluation criteria of innovation, usefulness, value, impact and uniqueness." - Steven Crofts, Senior Vice President, TDWI
Enforces Data Security/Integrity Policies at Database Object & Row Level Driven by data privacy, security, and integrity regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), implementing and enforcing effective data security and privacy policies are more important than ever. Database and application level approaches to enforcing data security are often inadequate and administratively costly. Database access controls are resource intensive, degrading application performance and increasing administrative overhead. Increasingly organizations authenticate and authorize users at the application level, and do not pass user IDs to the database. Without a means of identifying individual users, database access controls are rendered useless. On the other hand, building access controls into each and every application becomes prohibitively expensive and difficult to maintain as the number of applications grow across organizations. Delivering a cost effective and centrally managed approach to enforcing data security and privacy policies becomes essential. iGuard Access Policies act as a database "firewall", managing access to specified schemas, tables, columns and rows by user, user group, role or application. iGuard works in conjunction with most single sign-on and application specific authorization and authentication programs and products. It delivers a consistent layer of security policy enforcement independent of application and databases. Prevents Problem Queries Before They Waste Time & Resources Acting as a "filter", iGuard screens each query as it travels on the TCP-IP network between any SQL-generating application and the backend databases. Unlike database governors, iGuard’s pre-emptive user governance facility functions outside of the database, examining and preventing user queries before they reach the database and impact valuable system resources and waste users' time and productivity. iGuard Policies can prevent different kinds of user problems including inappropriate, unauthorized or inaccurate reports and queries. Information requests that violate an active iGuard Policy are either prevented or flagged for later analysis and a Teleran Automated Helpdesk message is automatically sent to user guiding them to improve the efficiency or effectiveness of their queries. Merrill Lynch "As our user community grows, iGuard policies have enabled us to guide and support more people at a reduced cost, maximizing the business value of our applications." - Joe Pomerantz, first vice president Improves Query Performance & Prevents User Errors Inevitably user errors occur as new data is added, or new users come on-line and are unfamiliar with the applications or the database. With iGuard Customizable Policies selected from the Policy Library you can prevent performance degrading query errors. And, using the iGuard "point and shoot" Policy Wizard, you can tailor policies to address query and reporting issues unique to your users, applications and databases. Here are several examples:
Customizable Policies can also prevent user errors that generate inaccurate or misleading results. Here are some examples:
Simulates & Maintains Service Levels Automatically iGuard Performance Policies prevent queries that are predicted to run over a specified elapsed time or result set threshold before they reach the database. These policies are automatically created via Service Level Manager, a patented inductive learning process. An off-line process, Discovery produces and recommends new iGuard performance policies based on historical patterns of user behavior and system performance. As user patterns and system resources change, Service Level Manager Policies adapt to ensure that performance and services level expectations are met. Service Level Manager Policies can be placed in Test Mode for service level simulation before making them active. Intelligent Enterprise "Teleran’s system is an unmatched tool for dynamic query management. It provides analysis information, structural recommendations, and proactive query controls previously only dreamt of." - Martin Rennhackkamp Point, Click, Test & Apply Query Policies with Policy Wizard iGuard automatically maintains an awareness of the entire BI environment, including users, applications, query content, and back-end data structures. As a result, with iGuard's Policy Wizard you can simply point, click, and enforce policies that can be applied to any users, groups or applications to prevent user errors, enhance system performance and increase data level security. All iGuard Policies can be placed in Test, Advise or Active modes. In Test or "simulation" Mode Policies do not block queries, but the system records and reports on which queries would have been acted upon, and how in-test policies could improve performance, accuracy or data security. Active Mode allows Policies to block queries when violated and simultaneously send the Automated Helpdesk message back to the user. In Advise Mode queries are not blocked, but users receive Automated Helpdesk messages associated with specific policies that will guide them in best query practices or remind them of the application, data usage or privacy policies in place. |
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