Enabling single sign-on between IBM® Unica Marketing and IBM® Coremetrics® Web Analytics

If your organization uses IBM® Coremetrics® Web Analytics, you can enable single sign-on between IBM® Coremetrics® and IBM® Unica Marketing. Single sign-on allows users to navigate to IBM® Coremetrics® reports from within the IBM® Unica Marketing user interface without being prompted to log in.

Also, if IBM® Coremetrics® reports are referenced in IBM® Unica Marketing dashboards, single sign-on allows users to view these reports (if they have access to them in IBM® Coremetrics®).

Two options for enabling single sign-on between IBM® Unica Marketing and IBM® Coremetrics® Web Analytics

You can choose between two options for enabling single sign-on.

You can configure IBM® Coremetrics® to automatically create an IBM® Coremetrics® user account the first time an IBM® Unica Marketing user navigates to IBM® Coremetrics®.

You might want to choose this option if you want all of your IBM® Unica Marketing users to have single sign-on with IBM® Coremetrics®.

You can configure IBM® Unica Marketing user accounts for single sign-on by adding each user's existing IBM® Coremetrics® login name to his or her detail page in IBM® Unica Marketing.

When you choose this option, users who require access to IBM® Coremetrics® must have an IBM® Coremetrics® account.

You might want to choose this option if you want a subset of your IBM® Unica Marketing users to have single sign-on with IBM® Coremetrics®.

When the automatic account creation option is not selected in IBM® Coremetrics®, single sign-on users have the permissions in IBM® Coremetrics® that they would have if they log in to IBM® Coremetrics® directly.

When the automatic account creation option is selected in IBM® Coremetrics®, single sign-on users have permissions in IBM® Coremetrics® as follows.

By default, users have the permissions granted to the IBM® Coremetrics® group the administrator has configured for all automatically created users.

In addition, the administrator can override automatic account creation for users who already have a IBM® Coremetrics® account. If the override is in place for a user, that user has the permissions he or she would have when he or she logs in to IBM® Coremetrics® directly.

The clock on the server on which the Marketing Platform is deployed must match the time on the IBM® Coremetrics® server clock. For single sign-on, the IBM® Coremetrics® server allows for up to 15 minutes of difference (900 seconds) between server clock times.

As a best practice, you should synchronize server clocks. To ensure synchronization, you should use the Network Time Protocol (NTP).

If you cannot synchronize your server clock, and there might be at least 15 minutes of difference between the clocks, you can set the Clock skew adjustment (seconds) configuration property under the Coremetrics® category in Marketing Platform to a number that reflects the difference between the clocks.