Performance Management Architect Roles

All Performance Management Architect roles are power roles. Typically, they are granted to power users who must create applications and administer application dimensions.

Table 25. Performance Management Architect Roles

RoleDescription
EPMA Administrator

The EPMA Administrator role comprises these roles:

  • Application Creator

    • Essbase Application Creator

    • Financial Management Application Creator

    • Planning Application Creator

    • Profitability Application Creator

  • Dimension Editor

Creates and deploys Performance Management Architect applications. Application Creators own all dimensions in undeployed applications. They can create dimensions but can change only the dimensions to which they have access permissions.

Required, in addition to the Dimension Editor role, for Financial Management and Planning users to be able to navigate to their product’s Classic Application Administration options.

When a user with Application Creator role deploys an application from Performance Management Architect, that user automatically becomes the application administrator and provisioning manager for that application.

EPMA Administrators can also perform these Transaction History Purge Utility operations:

  • Access all applications, even if the user did not deploy the application

  • Manually mark a stalled job as timed out

  • View hidden jobs

  • Open the application diagnostics screen to run tests and solutions on all applications

Essbase Application Creator

Creates Essbase applications and generic applications using Performance Management Architect

Financial Management Application Creator

Creates Consolidation applications and generic applications using Performance Management Architect. To create applications, the user must also be a member of the Application Creators group specified in Financial Management Configuration Utility.

Planning Application Creator

Creates Planning applications and generic applications using Performance Management Architect

Profitability Application Creator

Creates Profitability and Cost Management applications generic applications using Performance Management Architect

Dimension Editor[1]Creates, manages, and imports profiles to create dimensions in Performance Management Architect. Creates and manages dimensions manually within Performance Management Architect.

Required to access Classic Application Administration options for Financial Management and Planning using Web navigation.

1 Only Dimension Editors can create dimensions in the Shared Library.