International Business Machines Corporation

Cognos, Inc.

Christian Legault

Marc Graveline

Burton Leathers

Vincent Joseph Babineau

Leo Paul Cormier

A system and method for permitting a user of a business intelligence reporting system to be authenticated against one or more logon IDs and concurrently using access rights associated with those logon IDs in a terminal session. The user in a single terminal session is allowed to access the system with one of the logon IDs, a first logon ID, which gives that user access rights to data sources (or authorities) related to the first logon ID. The user may then add or remove further access rights by logging on or off with subsequent logon IDs. Each subsequent logon ID gives that user additional access rights to data sources related to the subsequent logon IDs. No attempt is made to reduce the number or change the nature of these logon IDs.

Method and system for authentication in a business intelligence system

An efficient and reliable method and system for organizing an application in a source environment and deploying the application into a target environment is disclosed. The method comprises steps of (a) defining an application for creating an application definition containing a list of application components, (b) defining a package according to the application definition for creating a package definition including deployment policies, (c) creating an application package according to the package definition, which contains all the information required to install the application, and (d) installing the application package into the target environment. Preferably, the method may further include a step of defining an environment for creating a configuration definition containing information on the source and target environments. The method may further include steps of transferring the application package from the source environment to the target environment before the application package installing step (d), and validating the installation prior to completion.

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