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Case study · Cognos

A seamless, secure Cognos auth migration.

How a HIPAA-focused health-information company moved Cognos to Active Directory without touching a single report.

A health information management company at the forefront of HIPAA compliance
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Lisa Kelley
Director of Financial Reporting, HealthPort
Zero
changes to existing Cognos content or models
Seamless
auth migration with minimal downtime
SSO
single sign-on across Cognos and Active Directory
The challenge

HealthPort set out to consolidate authentication onto a tightly controlled Active Directory, but its Cognos applications had always authenticated against a separate Access Manager. Migrating between auth sources changes the CAMIDs of users, groups, and roles, which can break security policies, group memberships, scheduled deliveries, and data-level security. Doing it manually would have been hugely expensive and error-prone for a HIPAA-compliant organization.

The solution

HealthPort chose Motio, whose patent-pending ability to migrate Cognos between authentication sources without affecting CAMIDs kept all content, schedules, and security configuration working exactly as before. Post-migration, audited impersonation let admins securely see what an end-user sees to troubleshoot issues, and SSO simplified access.

We were very impressed with how smooth the transition was from Access Manager to Active Directory. The Motio software did exactly what it was supposed to do.

Lisa Kelley · Director of Financial Reporting, HealthPort
The results
Seamless migration from Access Manager to Active Directory with minimal downtime
Zero updates required to existing Cognos content or models
Audited impersonation for secure, faster end-user support
Transparent single sign-on and happier users, one less password to manage

Impersonation was a must-have feature. We don't know what we would do without it.

Lisa Kelley · Director of Financial Reporting, HealthPort

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