The Challenge

When Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) announced plans to rollout a ground-breaking online tool for its customer royalty administration system, the announcement made Universal Music Publishing Group the first major, global music publisher to unveil a proprietary online portal for royalty statement transmittal, analysis and tracking, capable of efficiently managing a large volume of global copyrights.

Dubbed RoyaltyWindow.com it required an equally original design for its security access and verification system. IBM recommended Pirean as its implementation partner.

The Solution

UMPG’s requirement was for Pirean to build an Access and Identity Management solution on the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager (ITIM), Access Manager for e-Business (ITAMEB) and Directory Integrator (ITDI) Software Components.

Pirean’s solution for the Access and Identity Management solution incorporates a number of features, including:

• Reverse Proxy
• Two Factor Authentication (2FA)
• Anti-Phishing
• Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Automated User Administration
• Self-Service Password Reset
• Secure Authentication and Authorisation Gateway – WebSEAL

"Universal Music Publishing Group recently launched RoyaltyWindow a portal providing unique transparency through which their writers and contract partners could review and analyse their earnings, the first publishing major to offer such a service.

Being a financial instrument it was imperative that industrial quality, best practice access security be deployed and, having selected the tools to deliver that service, UMPG needed to engage a company of proficiency and ability to assist in uniting those elements into a simple to use, purposeful whole. UMPG chose Pirean to be their partner in this process."

Mike Donegan
SVP Global IT
Universal Music Publishing Group

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