legacy initiatives for year end 2012

Legacy Initiatives for Year End 2012

October 2, 2012

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Diana BitternEnhancing Search with AuthenticationEnterprise Search Summit, 18 October 2012

Diana Bittern, Knovel

Cynthia Larson, Eaton Corporation

Data Analysis Tools integrated into Engineering Workflow

• Easy-to-use tools for initial calculations and information validation• More than 95,000 interactive tables, graphs and equations • Customize and manipulate data as easily as sorting a spreadsheet• Digitize one or more curves by plotting points on a graph• Data Export preserves format and documents data source (Excel, MathCAD)

Knovel integrates 3 key elements

Validated Content

• Established, accepted science sourced from recognized societies & publishing partners• Stringent selection process driven by customer requests and vetted by industry experts• Editorial Advisory Board provides deep engineering experience & leadership

ensuring depth & breadth of content meets customer needs

• Finds data, hidden in tables, graphs, and equations

• “Understands” engineering language • Allows numeric range search

• Automatically performs unit conversion • Performs multi-variable search

Search Optimized for Engineers

Knovel is an information provider; at 11 years old, today...

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supports TEN different flavors of user authentication

IP Authentication

Username/Password (account level)

Individual User Registration User Registration RequiredUser Registration OptionalParameterized (for Required

only)

Athens

Automatic Pass through (SSO)

Shibboleth UK Federation

Manual Pass through (UN/PW)

Parameterized (old)

Knovel‘s challenges as a VENDOR

Email based User registration-Customers don't receive emails; often caught by spam filters

Support, Operations and QA-New customer onboarding is difficult due lack of standards based authentication

-QA of authentication methods requires resources and custom tools

-Diagnosing technical issues a challenge

-Pass Through progress limited by security issue

Limited reporting capabilities-Authentication failures are not logged

-Detailed reporting on usage by unique users not always available

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Eaton Worldwide

• Founded in 1911 • Headquartered in Cleveland• Diversified power management

company• Customers in more than 150 countries• 72,000 employees worldwide• Chairman & CEO – Alexander M.

Cutler

Eaton University Library

Eaton• Diversified power management company• 72,000 employees worldwide

The Library• Reports to Corporate HR• Library by the numbers:

• 100 percent digital content• 33,000 users worldwide• 3 team members in U.S. and India• 19 key content suppliers

Challenges

• Telling a compelling value story to leaders

• Capturing relevant metrics• User access• Lack of user awareness about where

content comes from

Eaton University Library Uses

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FOUR different flavors of user authentication

IP Authentication

Username/Password (account level)

Individual User Registration User Registration RequiredUser Registration OptionalParameterized (for Required

only)

Athens

Automatic Pass through (SSO)

Shibboleth UK Federation

Manual Pass through (UN/PW)

Parameterized (old)

A test case

Move to Knovel User Registration Advantages/disadvantages for the user Advantages/disadvantages for the library

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In return, at Eaton

Trending at 15% usage increase for 201281% of users go to Knovel to look for information to help solve a problem

83% of users have applied knowledge acquired from Knovel back on the job

94% of users would recommend Knovel to a co-worker 93% of users plan to use Knovel again

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Along came AARG

Access and Authentication Research Group, a collaboration of library managers and information suppliers, created by ITIMG in Fall of 2011.

Tasked with conducting research and developing a roadmap towards more standardized access and authentication protocols

Conducted survey, authored draft White Paper, available on request.

AARG Survey targeted Knowledge Managers in the Corporate sector

Timing: Q411

Focus: Current, Anticipated and Preferred Authentication Methods

Response Summary

Pharma/Medical ManufacturingHigh TechOil/GasConsultingConsumer GoodsAgribusinessContent Provider

• Select all that apply• Over 95% of the

responding organizations use IP authentication

• Over 82% have individual logins and passwords

Current State

• Rank top 4• Still a large number of

organizations anticipate using IP authentication

• Indicates an increase in Single Sign On – from 37% to 60%

Anticipated 2-3 Year State

Sample replies• True usage figures by organization will be important inputs to decisions about

renewal of subscriptions and also support charge-back methods of funding subscriptions

• Simplifying their means of access would most likely increase their usage of services.

• The only thing the user wants, is not to type/remember UN (username)/PW (password) nor to get involved in any type of authentication process before accessing a resource.

Authentication Standards?

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Diana BitternKnovel’s Progress

May 2012: Knovel surveyed our users about Authentication

104 Customers Responded-58 Academic

-40 Corporate

-8 Government

Customer Expections for the next 3 years- IP Authentication support still a strong requirement

-SSO requirements will double from 12 to 24 customers

-Federated Discovery Solution demand will double from 10 to 23 customers

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Current authentication landscape

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Authentication Futures 1-3 years out

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Knovel‘s New Platform Authentication goals

Reduce number of authentication methodsMove to federated standards based authentication to support Knovel’s Enterprise and Academic Customers

Support SAML Federation for authentication Buy (vs Build) a product that supports standards based authentication adapters such as SAML, OpenID

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Knovel Challenges Addressed by SAML

Simplified Registration

- Identity already verified; no need for activation email

-User attributes provided in secure exchange Onboarding of customers

-Repeatable model

-Configuration contained in a metadata exchangeAuthorization

- LIVE personnel check is part of authenticationReduced QA and support effort

- Industry adopted standard

- Interoperability testing by vendors

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We‘re building on the work of AARG

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Knovel is committed to supporting standards based identity federation For end user ease of accessFor flexible administration of information resource identity management

For better metrics and reporting

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Diana BitternThank you!