Profitability and Cost Management Roles

Table 37. Profitability and Cost Management Roles

RoleDescription
Power Roles
Administrator (admin)The Administrator role provides the administrative capability within Profitability and Cost Management to perform these tasks:
  • Create and maintain user accounts and security roles, and provision users, using Shared Services

  • Generate Essbase databases

  • Set up and maintain application preferences

  • Build the model database using Performance Management Architect, to select the common dimensions and members

  • Create and maintain elements within the model, such as stages, drivers, POVs, driver associations, assignments, and application preferences

  • Create staging tables in the source database to import model data and metadata from relational databases into Profitability and Cost Management

  • Perform POV copy, calculation, validation, data entry, and trace allocations

  • Deploy to Essbase and generate calculation scripts

  • Import and export data

  • Use Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Lifecycle Management to promote data from one environment, such as development or testing, to another environment, such as production

  • Back up and restore Profitability and Cost Management, model components

  • Monitor changes made to business objects

Power UserThe Power User role manages the majority of model functions and can perform these tasks:
  • Create and maintain elements within the model, such as stages, drivers, POVs, driver associations, assignments, and application preferences

  • Perform POV copy, calculation, validation, data entry, and trace allocations

  • Deploy to Essbase and generate calculation scripts

  • Import and export data

Interactive Roles
Interactive UserCan perform these tasks:
  • View all modeling screens

  • View and modify data on the Data Entry screen

View UserView-only access for these functions:
  • Data entry

  • Trace allocations

  • Application preferences

  • Model stages, drivers, and POVs