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Types of Security in Analytics

Two different levels of security configuration are supported by Siebel Business Analytics:

• Data-level security
• Object-level security

Siebel Business Analytics applications security is based on Responsibilities and Siebel Business Analytics repository groups. A Repository group and a Web Catalog group are created for each Siebel Business Analytics-specific responsibility defined in the Siebel operational application. The group names are exactly the same as the responsibility name.

In the Siebel operational application, you assign users to the appropriate Analytics responsibilities, and the membership is automatically be reflected in the repository as well as the Web Catalog. The user inherits the appropriate permissions from the responsibilities.

NOTE:  Users are always created in the Siebel operational application database, never in the Siebel Business Analytics repository.

User Access and User Responsibilities

Permission and access are always determined by user's memberships in various responsibilities. In this case, the term Responsibility is interchangeable with the terms Repository group and Web Catalog group; they have a one-to-one correspondence.

Siebel Business Analytics come with certain preconfigured responsibilities. Table 72 shows these preconfigured responsibilities.

Checking Analytics Applications User Responsibilities

There are two ways for a Siebel Administrator to check a user's responsibility:

• In the Siebel operational application, go to the Responsibilities view.
• Go to the Analytics Web and click the My Account link.

  The group membership for the user is shown near the bottom of the Web page.

Registering a New User Responsibility in Analytics Applications

When you add a new responsibility to a user in Analytics Web, the change is not immediately reflected in the Analytics environment. In order to register the new user responsibility, both the Siebel Administrator and the user must perform a task:

• The Administrator must reload the Server metadata through Analytics Web.
• After the metadata is reloaded, the user must log out from the Siebel operational application, then log in again.

Default Security Settings in Analytics Applications

The User Administrator and the Group Administrators are a special user and group that do not have any restrictions and do not go through the Siebel database. The User SADMIN (password SADMIN) is also a special user, similar to Administrator.

NOTE:  Be sure to change the default password before migrating to production.

The group Siebel Administrator is set up as a member of the supergroup Administrators, so members of this group have no restrictions.