Access tool aids seasonal power clean-up.Omaha Public Power District Omaha Public Power District, or OPPD, is a public electric utility in the State of Nebraska. It is one of the largest publicly owned electric utilities in the United States, serving more than 310,000 customers in 13 southeast Nebraska counties. (OPPD OPPD Omaha Public Power District ), an electric utility company in eastern Nebraska, performs periodic clean-up and maintenance checks on three large electric power generation plants, in addition to the myriad of day-to-day operations to provide utility services to customers in southeast Nebraska. When its Fort Calhoun nuclear station shuts down every 12-18 months for maintenance and refueling, hundreds of contractors are hired and put to work quickly--plant downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. costs nearly $500,000 per day. These seasonal workers collect large fees on a daily basis. Along with OPPD's 2,300 employees, many of whom work in the field, these contractors are required to use the company's full broad cross-section of resources. The company's computer system, however, was "not mainframe-centric," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Ron Workman WORKMAN. One who labors, one who is employed to do business for another. 2. The obligations of a workman are to perform the work he has undertaken to do; to do it in proper time; to do it well to employ the things furnished him according to his contract. , OPPD supervisor of information protection. He found a critical need for a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. access provisioning system. Workman says that granting access required a lot of paper forms and an average five-day wait up to two to three weeks. "If someone was delegated to approve access, we had to physically find him." OPPD abandoned its manual paper process, adopting a new system through Access360's enRole. "Now, with electronic forms, granting access takes no more than five or six minutes," Workman notes. enRole, a resource provisioning management (RPM) system, is policy-driven and matches user roles with access rights, automatically provisioning access to a variety of systems and applications. From a single point, a security administrator selects from predefined access rights based on roles, and can also securely add, delete or modify accounts from any Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. for multiple systems, applications, database managers, e-mail systems, for single users or an entire list. The quick addition and deletion of access for seasonal contractors reduces security risks when their work is complete. The enRole Enterprise Server can reconcile employee status information from HR databases with access privilege data from each administered platform. The system also keeps an audit trail of changes t6 access rights for every system and regularly reconciles authorized users authorized user Radiation physics A person who, having satisfied the applicable training and experience requirements, is granted authority to order radioactive material and accepts responsibility for its safe receipt, storage, use, transfer and disposal against active user IDs. Additionally, says Workman, "OPPD has saved about $100,000 annually in reduced help-desk costs and decreased audit times, while significantly increasing effectiveness in security and productivity." www.access360.com Circle 267 for more information from Access360 |
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