Integration user for analytical access to read only data stores generated from transactional systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9449188-B2
Application number	US-201414512249-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 10, 2014
Priority date	Oct 10, 2014
Publication date	Sep 20, 2016
Grant date	Sep 20, 2016

Abstract

The technology disclosed preserves the tenant specificity and user specificity of the tenant data by associating user IDs to complementary special IDs referred to as the integration user(s). In particular, it combines the traceability of user actions, the integration of security models and the flexibility of a service ID into one integration user(s).

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method of controlling and tracking usage of an analytic data analysis system associated with a transactional data management system, the method including:
a transactional data management system that manages data stored in a transaction data store receiving a logon request with an associated user ID for use of the transactional data management system, authenticating the logon request, and identifying that authorizations associated with the user ID include usage of the analytical data analysis system;
wherein the analytical data analysis system responds to requests to visualize data stored in an analytic data store that is a subset of, but not all of, the data stored in the transactional data store; and
responsive to a request to use the analytical data analysis system with the user ID, invoking a complementary special ID linked to the user ID, wherein
the special ID grants rights related to a specific analytic data analysis system;
the special ID rights provide read-only access to at least one analytic data store accessed through the specific analytic data analysis system; and
use of the transactional data management system is separately licensed and accounted for from the analytical data analysis system.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further including:
associating with the special ID security attributes particular to retrieval of data objects from the specific analytic data analysis system.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further including:
applying first security translation rules that accept one or more security attributes from the transactional data management system as predicates; and
generating one or more security tokens to associate with the special ID when interacting with the specific analytic data analysis system; and
wherein the security tokens govern access using the special ID to objects managed by the specific analytic data analysis system.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further including:
associating with the special ID security attributes particular to the specific analytic data analysis system by accessing a plurality of heterogeneous transactional data management systems that have divergent security models;
accessing data in the plurality of transactional data management systems and creating objects that merge the data from two or more of the transactional data management systems; and
processing first security translation rules that accept the data set security attributes from the two or more transactional data management systems as predicates and generating one or more security tokens to associate with each secured object that merges the data.

5. An apparatus to control and track usage of an analytic data analysis system associated with a transactional data management system, the apparatus comprising:
a computer including a processor;
a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory includes computer program instructions causing the computer to implement a process including:
a transactional data management system that manages data stored in a transaction data store receiving a logon request with an associated user ID for use of the transactional data management system, authenticating the logon request, and identifying that authorizations associated with the user ID include usage of the analytical data analysis system;
wherein the analytical data analysis system responds to requests to visualize data stored in an analytic data store that is a subset of, but not all of, the data stored in the transactional data store; and
responsive to a request to use the analytical data analysis system with the user ID, invoking a complementary special ID linked to the user ID, wherein
the special ID grants rights related to a specific analytic data analysis system;
the special ID rights provide read-only access to at least one analytic data store accessed through the specific analytic data analysis system; and
use of the transactional data management system is separately licensed and accounted for from the analytical data analysis system.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 , further including computer program instructions causing the computer to implement a process including:
associating with the special ID security attributes particular to retrieval of data objects from the specific analytic data analysis system.

7. The apparatus of claim 5 , further including computer program instructions causing the computer to implement a process including:
applying first security translation rules that accept one or more security attributes from the transactional data management system as predicates; and
generating one or more security tokens to associate with the special ID when interacting with the specific analytic data analysis system; and
wherein the security tokens govern access using the special ID to objects managed by the specific analytic data analysis system.

8. The apparatus of claim 5 , further including computer program instructions causing the computer to implement a process including:
associating with the special ID security attributes particular to the specific analytic data analysis system by accessing a plurality of heterogeneous transactional data management systems that have divergent security models;
accessing data in the plurality of transactional data management systems and creating objects that merge the data from two or more of the transactional data management systems; and
processing first security translation rules that accept the data set security attributes from the two or more transactional data management systems as predicates and generating one or more security tokens to associate with each secured object that merges the data.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer program instructions that cause a computer to implement a process including:
a transactional data management system that manages data stored in a transaction data store receiving a logon request with an associated user ID for use of the transactional data management system, authenticating the logon request, and identifying that authorizations associated with the user ID include usage of the analytical data analysis system;
wherein the analytical data analysis system responds to requests to visualize data stored in an analytic data store that is a subset of, but not all of, the data stored in the transactional data store; and
responsive to a request to use the analytical data analysis system with the user ID, invoking a complementary special ID linked to the user ID, wherein
the special ID grants rights related to a specific analytic data analysis system;
the special ID rights provide read-only access to at least one analytic data store accessed through the specific analytic data analysis system; and
use of the transactional data management system is separately licensed and accounted for from the analytical data analysis system.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , further including computer program instructions that cause the computer to implement a process including:
associating with the special ID security attributes particular to retrieval of data objects from the specific analytic data analysis system.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , further including computer program instructions that cause the computer to implement a process including:
applying first security translation rules that accept one or more security attributes from the transactional data management system as predicates;
generating one or more security tokens to associate with the special ID when interacting

Assignees

• Salesforce Com Inc

Inventors

• Schneider Donovan
• Im Fred
• Chakravarthy Vijayasarathy

Classifications

• H04L63/102 Primary

  Entity profiles · CPC title

• G06F21/6218 Primary

  to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database · CPC title

• G06F17/30563

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L63/08

  for authentication of entities (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32) · CPC title

• G06F17/30377

  Physics · mapped topic