Business Intelligence Business Rules

The business rules provided in this topic serve as the CMS standards and conventions for implementing CMS BI solutions. CMS established the following guidance and standards for developing the Agency’s BI implementations based upon its chosen BI software suites.

BR-BI-1: All Production BI Applications and Systems Must Comply with the CMS TRA and the BI Reference Architecture

BR-BI-2: (Withdrawn after TRA 2016R1): BI applications must run on the Sun Solaris and/or Z-Linux platform, and the server components may reside on one or multiple platforms

BR-BI-3: Authentication, Auditing, and Logging of All BI User Accounts Must Be Managed from the CMS Enterprise LDAP Directory and Enterprise User Administration

BR-BI-4: All Traffic Must Be Encrypted between a BI User’s Browser, Web Services, or Device and the BI Server

BR-BI-5: Role-Based Authorization Must Be Used to Manage Access to BI Applications, Queries, Reports, Analytic Functions, Tables, Views, and Stored Procedures

BR-BI-6: All BI Applications and Systems Must Comply with the Current CMS ARS

BR-BI-7: BI Applications Must Leverage the BI Portal Framework as an Enterprise-Wide Secure Gateway that Enables All BI Tools to Access, Manipulate, and Analyze Data