In a university setting, a Cognos Analytics Administrator license gives a user access to sensitive information on students and faculty, and to proprietary research data. It allows a user to make changes to the university’s analytics platform. In the right hands, it’s a license to help ensure data integrity, drive decision-making, comply with regulations, and cultivate trust. After an upgrade to a new version of Cognos Business Analytics, our client discovered that these powerful licenses had been inadvertently granted to users who did not require that level of access. This put the school’s data and reputation at risk and could have led to non-compliance with licensing agreements and fees for additional, unneeded licenses. School leadership moved quickly. And they called on Ironside.