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Security is critical in any Jedox implementation. Efficient ‘lock down’ of your models are just as important to an organisation as the data they contain. There has been a need for an additional layer of security in Jedox’s database architecture for a while now.
Pre-5.1 , you could lock down cubes , dimensional elements, even cells. But you could not actually hide or restrict databases themselves. This is a hugely important step – now you can hide all assortment of databases from certain user groups. A great example that has come up time and time again for me is around Payroll models. Even though Jedox security stops unauthorised access to cubes and dimensions within a Payroll database, the fact that unauthorised users could ‘see’ the database folder name made administrators nervous. This is now a thing of the past with the Jedox developers re-writing the security model to cater for databases. There is now a separate security object (#_GROUP_DATABASE_DATA) that allows admins to restrict by group access to a database.
This new security development also opens the door potentially to a more multi-tenanted approach to model development. I have updated our security templates for database restriction and made them available :
Excel Security Template (pw:jedox)
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