John McGuire, Equion Consulting - London AUG, April 19 2011

1. Equion Consulting Confluence/IDOL/Active Directory Security Connector John McGuire 19th April 2011

2. Background International law firm 1 Confidential documents and information 2 Employees search for and only have access to content which they have authorisation 3 A great deal of documentation and information not available due to access restrictions 4

3. Systems Integrated Active Directory – Enterprise Wide Authentication Autonomy (IDOL) – Enterprise Search Engine Confluence – Enterprise Collaboration Platform

5. Security Issues IDOL search restricted to “public”, non confidential information and documents within Confluence Restricted content in Confluence was not indexed by IDOL and therefore not available through enterprise search

7. Technical Challenges Develop solution initially for Confluence 2.7.2 and then 3.x Resolve the issues which existed within Active Directory implementation To take the hierarchical permissions structure from Confluence and apply it to each specific item indexed in IDOL Ensure high performance

9. Custom Confluence Plug-in Maintains the correct access rights Sends content to be indexed by IDOL in real-time i.e. whenever content is created, edited or deleted Extracts all indexable content within Confluence Delivers high performance

10. Business Benefits Authorised content available – All authorised content can be searched and made available. Correct access rights are maintained. An individual only able to see the content which they are authorised to see. Business productivity – Greatly improved productivity. Able to find documents and information quickly using enterprise search. Real time - New content indexed in real time. Available immediately with the correct access rights Automated process – No manual intervention, unless a full re-index of content is required to be carried out.

13. Greenhopper – Project management The project tools employed: Jira – Project and issue tracking Bamboo – Continuous integration Fisheye – Code changes Crucible – Code review Can strongly recommend the Atlassian project toolset Project Integration Tools Clover – Testing

14. Further Information? Contact John McGuire 020 7288 4312 [email_address] www.equionconsulting.com