Many open source web applications use relational databases to hold identifying user information. This model works well for stand-alone Internet applications where the user population is self-chosen and is willing to sign up for and maintain an independent identity for the application. When writing applications for a corporate environment, however, the user population is no longer self-selected. There were some specific challenges that I wanted to solve including an IT Security intranet, tracking of audit issues, and monitoring of corporate email systems where open-source tools could be used to quickly and easily put the information into a HTML format. The information, however, had various levels of classification, and users had to be authenticated and authorized to see the specific applications.
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