Single sign-on between Unica and IBM SPSS Modeler Advantage Enterprise Marketing Management Edition

You can enable single sign-on to allow users to navigate to IBM SPSS Modeler Advantage Enterprise Marketing Management Edition from within the Unica user interface without being prompted to log in.

After single sign-on is configured, users who are logged in to Unica can navigate to IBM SPSS Modeler Advantage Enterprise Marketing Management Edition by using either of the following options:

  • By clicking Analytics > SPSS to view the user's Decision Management home page.
  • By clicking the links in the SPSS® Model and SPSS® Score process boxes in an Unica Campaign flowchart to view the Model and Score tabs of the modeling stream.

Single sign-on is supported for all authentication methods in IBM SPSS Modeler Advantage Enterprise Marketing Management Edition. Single sign-on is also supported with all of the authentication mechanisms that are supported for Unica:

  • Authentication through Unica Platform
  • Authentication through supported LDAP servers
  • Authentication through supported web-access control platforms

Prerequisites for single sign-on

Your environment must meet the following prerequisites before you implement single sign-on.

  • You must have fully functional installations of the following before you can configure single sign-on:
    • Unica Platform version 9.1.0 or later
    • IBM SPSS Modeler Advantage Enterprise Marketing Management Edition version 8.0.0 or later
  • Your installation of IBM SPSS Modeler Advantage Enterprise Marketing Management Edition must use the native repository configuration. This configuration is described in the IBM® SPSS® Modeler Advantage Guide.

Partition support with single sign-on

You need only a single instance of IBM SPSS Modeler Advantage Enterprise Marketing Management Edition regardless of the number of partitions that you have in your Unica environment. You can configure each partition independently and specify whether users have access to IBM SPSS Modeler Advantage Enterprise Marketing Management Edition. The members of each partition can see and access the modeling streams and data that were created within their own partition only. Each modeling stream that is created in IBM SPSS Modeler Advantage Enterprise Marketing Management Edition is available only in the partition in which it was created.