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Background

Data Security is a must-have, when exposing critical data to the end-users for creating ad-hoc requests. The Object Security would ensure that the user is shown only those Subject Areas (or content) using which, a user can pull in certain columns and create an ad-hoc request. However, it is possible in a business scenario, that the user should still see only data pertaining to his visibility in the organization. For example, the Procurement Manager of Vision USA should only see the Procurement details that happened in USA (assuming that the organization has clearly demarcated their procurement organization on the basis of geographical territories). Similarly, the Procurement Manager of Asia-Pacific, should see procurement data of Asia-Pacific Region only. Even if both of these persons belong to the "Procurement Manager" group, the actual data seen by them varies, depending on the access controls they have. This is a critical requirement and spans across all pillars (for example, HCM, SCM, FII, CRM).

This release of Oracle BI Applications supports the following types of data security:

• Operating Unit-based security against Oracle EBS.
• Inventory Organization-based security against Oracle EBS.
• Position-based security against Siebel Applications.

This release of Oracle BI Applications does not support position-based security against Oracle EBS, or set of book, business group, GL flex field, or HR security profile-based security.