Authentication and Authorization in Edge Flow Manager

This video covers the security aspects of Edge Flow Manager (EFM). It shows the differences between an admin and a regular user. The important thing to note is that authorization is based on Agent Classes so if a user has no defined policy on a particular Agent Class, then the user won’t see any class / agent / event information that belongs to such a class. For convenience users can be grouped so permissions can be inherited from pre-defined groups.

Avoiding Data Integration

For many years now, vendors and consultants have avoided the practice of data integration. Integrating data is complex. Systems are often undocumented, which makes searching them difficult. Assumptions must be made in order to understand business decisions from long ago. Data integration requires the proverbial four-letter word no one wants to hear: work. But anything worth doing should involve a bit of sweat and tears, right?