Bookshelf Home | Contents | Index | Search | PDF

Upgrade Guide for Microsoft Windows > Data Migration Considerations > Changes to the Siebel Data Model >

Access Control

---

Access control refers to all mechanisms to control visibility within Siebel eBusiness Applications. This includes but is not limited to positions, responsibilities, organizations, and access groups. To implement access control within your Siebel eBusiness Applications deployment, your Siebel Administrator creates relationships between people and resources (a more general term for data that includes views and functionality). These relationships or policy are authorizations. Both people and resources can be grouped and placed in hierarchies to ease the administration.

Deployment of Siebel eBusiness Applications over the Web provides external users, such as customers and channel partners with varying access levels, the ability to directly access data and application functionality. This change introduces a new set of data and content access dynamics:

• An exponential increase in the amount of content that is distributed by the Siebel eBusiness Applications including Master data (data that is static and referential, such as Products) and Customer data (data that is created and managed by users of applications, such as Opportunities).
• An exponential increase in the number of users and entities that access the data and added complexity of relationships between users (partners, competitors, browsers, customers).
• A significant increase in the complexity of access control policies (one data item or group of data items can be accessed by one or many users or groups, but not by all).

To support access control, data migration occurs during the upgrade to Release 7.x. The following two sections describe this migration.

Visibility Across Multiple Organizations

In releases prior to Release 7.5, a Person or Household could not be made visible to multiple Business Units (Organizations). With the introduction of S_CONTACT_BU and S_ORG_GROUP_BU, the application can now share People and Households across multiple Business Units.

The upgrade to Release 7.5 populates both the S_CONTACT_BU and S_ORG_GROUP_BU tables with one record for each record in the S_CONTACT and S_ORG_GROUP tables. After the upgrade, Contacts and Households continue to be visible from the Business Unit they belonged to prior to the upgrade.

Access Group and Userlist

For Release 7.5, two new Siebel Extension tables were added to the S_PARTY, S_PARTY_GROUP and S_USERLIST tables to hold Access Group and User List attributes, respectively. The upgrade adds records to the S_PARTY_GROUP and S_USERLIST tables for existing S_PARTY Access Group and User List records. Multi-Org visibility is supported for the new tables, so the upgrade also adds corresponding intersection table records to the S_PARTY_GRP_BU and S_USERLIST_BU tables.

NOTE:  For more information about access control, see Security Guide for Siebel eBusiness Applications.

Bookshelf Home | Contents | Index | Search | PDF