Access to your VertiGIS Studio Analytics instance is enabled and controlled by security providers and groups. A security provider for Analytics is a service or group of services that work together to provide authentication.

By default, the security provider is Microsoft Windows. It is possible to configure Analytics so that users can use their ArcGIS Online (AGOL) or Portal for ArcGIS credentials to connect. As an administrator, you can configure the user’s level of permissions based on which groups they are in. This allows for two methods to configure security to Analytics:

•Windows (default method).

•Access to Analytics is granted based on Windows authentication.

•Members of select local groups get either viewer or admin access. Optionally, you can assign viewer/admin rights to members of domain groups.

•ArcGIS Online / Portal for ArcGIS

•Configure a security provider (AGOL or Portal).

•For that provider, add a group and assign viewer/admin rights.

Only administrators can configure security in Analytics.

Windows is added automatically as a provider and cannot be removed.

One reason for using an alternate security provider is for ease of maintenance. For instance, you can create an Analytics Admins and Analytics Viewers group in your Portal (or AGOL) and configure them to have admin and viewer privileges in Analytics. That allows you to manage your users in one place. When a new employee starts, you can add them to Portal (or AGOL) and put them in either group. This allows appropriate access to Analytics without having to configure anything for that user within Analytics.

Another reason to use AGOL or Portal as a security provider is to separate user admin duties away from the IT system administrator and place them under the GIS administrator’s purview.