Spotnana has introduced role-based access controls to its
platforms, letting companies limit what certain types of users can see and do
within the platform, as well as a "stealth" designation for travelers
with sensitive travel details, the company announced on Thursday.
With the new control system, companies can have
"granular control over permissions that define what a user can see and do
in Spotnana," according to the company. Controls in part are based on
roles with defined permissions in the platform. Beyond a broad
"administrator" role with full access, companies can assign
specialized roles such as a reporting administrator, who has the access to run
analytics in the platform, or a user management administrator who can add and
edit profiles.
Spotnana eventually plans to have the ability to create
customized roles made up from a configurable set of permissions, the company
said.
The system also allows companies to apply scope to users'
permissions. For example, an administrator or agent might be given permissions
to access data related only to certain individuals, events or organizations
within a company.
In addition, companies can set up groups that share common
permissions, and users can be added to that group to get the permissions rather
than assigning the permissions to that individual user's profile, according to
Spotnana.
With those controls, a company, for example, could assign a
finance team that ability to access data without granting access to book trips,
the company said. A travel management company could assign a group of agents
dedicated to a specific corporate account permissions only to that account.
Spotnana also announced a new "stealth travel"
capability, in which travelers who need to keep their activity confidential
have their data left out of profile lists, trip dashboards, reporting and
analytics and integrations with third-party tools. Companies and TMCs can
assign specific administrators and agents with stealth capabilities to manage
those trips, but their trips will be "completely invisible to unauthorized
users," according to Spotnana.
The stealth mode is often needed at the C-suite level, such
as an executive who wants to keep travel to a certain region where a merger is being
discussed confidentially or an executive who wants to keep travel plans private
for security reasons, the company said.