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• Matomo SSO options and why is it useful ?

  8 novembre 2017, par Matomo Core Team — Plugins

  Bored with typing again and again different logins and passwords for each service you have access to ? Would you like to add hundreds or thousands of users with different roles to your Matomo (Piwik) at once ? Would you like to save time and effort of managing your users while increasing the security in your business ? Guess what, Matomo has come up with great features to do just that.

  But what is a SSO ?

  Before introducing you to new Matomo (Piwik) features, let me explain what a SSO is.
  SSO is the acronym for Single Sign On. As its name suggests this authentication process allows a user to access multiple applications with one set of login credentials.

  Advantages of using a SSO are numerous :

  • improving security, for example when an employee is leaving your company, how can you check that all his credentials have been removed ?
  • reducing employees time-wasters such as having to enter logins/passwords each time.
  • providing a centralized database for administrators. They can then easily manage permissions of all employees saving them heaps of time.
  • reduces support costs related to authentication / accounts management.

  In order to provide SSO options, two Matomo (Piwik) plugins have been developed and are available on the marketplace :

  • SAML
  • LDAP

  SAML

  

  SAML stands for “Security Assertion Markup Language”, it is a standard in order to exchange authentication and authorization between an identity provider (OneLogin, Okta, Ping Identity, ADFS, Google, Salesforce, SharePoint…) and a service provider.
  An identity provider is an online service that authenticates users on the Internet by using security tokens.

  Are you wondering if your business or organization is using any of these providers ? We recommend to ask your operations team or sysadmin.

  At InnoCraft, we developed a plugin in order to allow SSO with SAML for Matomo (Piwik). It can ensure consistent access control across the enterprise and external providers, potentially reducing support costs related to authentication and accounts management.

  The installation process is straightforward. All you need is to get the SAML premium feature from the marketplace. Once installed, you will access the SAML configuration interface through the admin where you can configure various settings :

  • SAML Status
  • Identity Provider (Entity ID, SSO endpoint info, Public x509 certificate)
  • Just-in-time provisioning and Mapping attributes
  • Access Synchronization
  • Advanced settings

  

  From there you will need to follow our detailed documentation to have it up and running :
  https://matomo.org/docs/login-saml/.
  Once finished, you will then be able to use SAML to authenticate to your Matomo (Piwik) account :

  

  As all premium features, SAML is eligible to a 30-day period money back guarantee, so do not hesitate to have it a try.

  LDAP

  

  LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. As its names implies LDAP is a directory, hosted on a server, which organizes the data about people in your company.
  Thanks to the LDAP plugin, Matomo (Piwik) can be connected to your LDAP infrastructure and then use all its power in order to give each individual an access with different rights according to their needs.

  Let’s say that you have 1,000 employees within a company and they all need right now an access to the analytics reports in Matomo (Piwik) with different roles. This is what LDAP can do.

  Moreover if your business or organization is already using LDAP, we recommend using the LDAP connector for Matomo (Piwik) for better security, to stop wasting time of your users and sysadmins, and to reduce the costs related to account management.

  You understood it well. LDAP is a plugin which saves a LOT of time within an organization. Here is a preview of the settings part :

  

  LDAP has been developed by the Matomo (Piwik) core team and is available as a Free plugin on the marketplace.

  Try it now within the marketplace

  If you are surprised by the possibilities that Matomo (Piwik) is offering in terms of plugins, the good news is that many other plugins are waiting for you on the marketplace. Check out our premium marketplace which offers state-of-the-art plugins to get the most out of Matomo.

  And if you are a developer feel free to create your own plugin, a detailed documentation is available at : https://developer.matomo.org/guides/getting-started-part-1.

• Secure and track every change to your Matomo installation with the Activity Log plugin

  14 novembre 2017, par InnoCraft — Plugins

  Are you wondering how your colleagues are using Matomo (Piwik) ? Would you like to know if an unauthorized user got an access to your installation ? Would you like to remember the last actions you performed in Matomo some weeks ago ? At InnoCraft, we developed a plugin called “Activity Log”. With this feature you can easily track and check all major changes to your Matomo websites, for example : user permissions, goals, and funnels. In this article we will show you the different ways you can use it and explain why it is an invaluable plugin.

  Activity log for better security

  The activity log feature has been designed for security. Also referred to as “audit logging” or “audit trail”, with this plugin you will be able to :

  1. detect any suspicious actions
  2. detect hacker attacks
  3. help identify performance problems
  4. see clearly who did what, and when
  5. find out how people are using Matomo (Piwik) within your company

  1 – detect any suspicious actions

  With audit trail you can easily identify if a former employee still has access to your Matomo (Piwik) installation. You will then be able to know when he accessed it for the last time, and what changes she or he performed. If you got hacked, you will be able to find out if the user created, changed, or deleted any website, goals, or did anything else suspicious.

  2 – detect hacker attacks

  When an unregistered user is trying to access your Matomo (Piwik), each failed login attempt is registered within the Activity Log report.

  3 – help identify performance problems

  Activity Log can help you identify performance problems by registering the sequence of each major action a user performed. For example, if a user updated or installed a third party plugin, and suddenly Matomo (Piwik) is getting performance problems, then it is likely that the plugin update caused it.

  4 – see clearly who did what, and when

  It is always challenging in an organization to know who did what and when. With Activity Log, you will know who were the employee(s) that accessed Matomo (Piwik), created, updated, or deleted a goal, a funnel, a scheduled report, and much more.

  5- find out how people are using Matomo within your company

  By having a look at how people are using Matomo (Piwik) you will have an overview of how your colleagues use Matomo. For example, you can see who is creating Custom segments to analyse the audience in more details, who is creating funnels to learn where your users drop off. You will then be able to identify who has the knowledge and who needs training.

  Did you know ?

  You can help the Matomo (Piwik) core team make Matomo even better by sharing anonymously how you use Matomo on a day to day basis. You just need to install the following plugin : http://plugins.matomo.org/AnonymousPiwikUsageMeasurement

  What’s in it ?

  Once downloaded and installed from the marketplace, you will be able to access the activity log from the admin panel within the diagnostic section :

  

  If you are logged as a super user administrator, you will get an overview and a detailed report about who accessed Matomo (Piwik) and which actions they performed.

  Those reports are critical as they allow the super user to :

  • ensure users are following all documented procedures within your organization such as naming conventions for reports, using the right settings when adding measurables…
  • identify suspicious behavior. As those reports are gathering all major Matomo (Piwik) users activities it is easy to identify non conventional behavior.
  • replay the sequence some users went through in order to fix any potential issues.

  Activity log view report you can access through the admin panel

  So you will see in a second if an unusual user got access to Matomo (Piwik) and the different actions the user performed.
  It is also a good way to see the features that your users are using and identify potential misuse.

  As a regular user or admin, activity log is providing only the historical actions that this user performed :

  

  Actions listed in the log include any changes (add, edit, delete) to the following features (this is a non exhaustive list) :

  • Annotation
  • Custom Alert
  • Custom Dimension
  • Goal
  • Privacy settings
  • Scheduled report
  • Segment
  • User
  • Website
  • …

  This is a ideal to remember the actions they previously performed some weeks/months ago.

  Where can I start from here ?

  Activity log is a premium feature you can acquire through the Matomo (Piwik) marketplace. If you want to experience it before purchasing it, you can try it for free on our cloud infrastructure.

  I want to try the Activity Log plugin

  Activity log is just one out of the many great premium features developed by InnoCraft, the company founded by the creators of Matomo. Discover all their special plugins through the premium marketplace.

   

• Piwik is now Matomo – Announcement

  
  9 janvier 2018, par Matomo Core Team

  You may be surprised to read this announcement, but no stress, take a deep breath, nothing big is going to happen, it is just our name that is changing and here are the reasons why.

  

  Why are we changing from Piwik to Matomo ?

  “After an epic 10 year journey creating and perfecting the best open digital analytics solution, we felt it was a good time to refresh our brand to reflect how far we have come and to reaffirm our vision :
  To create, as a community, the leading international open source digital analytics platform, that gives every user full control of their data.”

  Matthieu Aubry, creator of Piwik

  As projects evolve, so do names. After 10 years of Piwik and the amazing achievement of building the top open source analytics software that gives every user full control of their data, we are now looking forward to the next chapter. Thus, Piwik, the community project, will now become Matomo. The only change is our name, everything else stays the same.

  This will allow users to take a fresh look at what we’ve become today and acknowledging all of the community’s hard work over the past 10 years. In addition, we also want our name to be unique, ensuring that it is not shared with any other company to remove any possible confusion or affiliations. Piwik is already used on over 1 million websites and with Matomo, we hope to reach our maximum potential.

  With the strong focus on privacy worldwide and the upcoming privacy regulations about to be legislated in Europe, it is clear that we were on the right mission from the very beginning. With the upcoming big release Matomo 4.0 planned for this year, new privacy protections will bring users the tools to be compliant with the GDPR privacy laws. And Matomo will grow in line with these regulations, with a very clear and focused vision.

  Changing our name is an exciting opportunity for us, and we hope you love the name Matomo as much as we do.

  Matomo FAQs

  So what is going to change for me ?

  Well, basically nothing, the name will change but the values stay the same : Matomo (Piwik) will continue to be free and always will be.

  Also the same people stay behind the project. We are motivated more than ever to take this project to the next level.

  Why not keep the name Piwik ?

  For a few reasons, one of which is to ensure that Matomo does not/will not share its name with any other businesses unlike Piwik. We also want to protect the Matomo brand and for it to remain the open source community project name forever.

  Where does the name Matomo come from ?

  We loved the name Piwik and were looking for something that sounded just as good ! Initially we wanted to have an acronym based on key terms, such as Free, Open Source and Privacy, but none really fit us perfectly.

  Until we found Matomo ! Easily pronounced in all languages. Short enough to remember. Concise. And best of all… Matomo means honesty in Japanese. Which aligns with one of our key values – transparency.

  We love the name Matomo and hope you do too.

  What is the vision of Matomo ?

  

  We have come a long way in those 10 years ! However, our mission statement remains the same :

  “To create, as a community, the leading international open source digital analytics platform, that gives every user full control of their data.”

  Matomo provides a range of amazing and innovative features, allowing you to get a 360 view of your visitors. These insights are invaluable to help understand behavior, keep track of goals, and increase conversion rates and revenue.

  Who will deliver Matomo professional services ?

  Any company who wishes to. The only exception is that no companies will be allowed to have the name Matomo.

  Our company providing professional services is and will remain InnoCraft.

  Where can I follow the Matomo project ?

  Our new website will be matomo.org (automatically redirected from Piwik.org)

  Follow our new Twitter : twitter.com/matomo_org

  Github : github.com/matomo-org

  Facebook : facebook.com/Matomo.org

  Linkedin : linkedin.com/company/matomo/

  If you are already following us on social media, you will be kept up to date with Matomo automatically as all social media accounts will be redirected.

  How should I pronounce Matomo ?

  If you’re wondering how to say ‘Matomo’, you can find out by clicking play :

  Where can I see a demo of Matomo ?

  On demo.matomo.org

  Where can I download Matomo first release ?

  On matomo.org/download

  (Matomo 3.3.0 will be released in the next few days)

  What is the new logo ?

  Check it out below.

  

  Matomo trademark Policy

  Matomo is an internationally registered trademark of Matthieu Aubry, Founder of Piwik (now Matomo).

  Information about how to use the name Matomo (and logo) can be found here : matomo.org/trademark/

  What are the next big steps ?

  We will keep it simple for our valued users. As it is just a name change, the only thing you will notice is that the Piwik brand will gradually be replaced on the websites you are used to seeing the name on. The first version of Matomo will be available in just a few days for download. The software version numbers stay the same : the next release after Piwik 3.2.1 will be Matomo 3.3.0.

  All our public HTTP APIs and Tracking SDKs will continue working normally. As you can imagine, there is a lot of work and complexity behind slowly updating all the SDKs and keeping backwards compatibility, so our renaming project will take a few weeks to complete.

  The Matomo trademark will later be transferred into the Matomo foundation, a non-profit that will be dedicated to promoting and ensuring access to Matomo and our related open source projects in perpetuity.

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  Thank you

  Thank you for continuing to support our project, alongside our 20+ Matomo core team members and more than 500 contributors.

  Please help to spread the word about this announcement by sharing it with friends or or colleagues who may benefit from using Matomo Analytics !

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