All Shared Services provisioning activities must be performed by a Shared Services Administrator or Provisioning Manager. A built-in admin account is available to initiate provisioning.
Provisioning users and groups should follow a provisioning plan tailored for your organization. Typically, you should create Shared Services Administrators and application-specific provisioning managers to provision EPM System users and groups. Depending on the needs of your organization, you could also create other power users; for example, LCM Administrators, by assigning Shared Services roles. See Foundation Services Roles for a discussion of available roles and their access privileges.
EPM System products can have two types of users: administrators and end users. Generally, administrators support EPM System products by performing administrative actions such as managing user directories, creating applications, provisioning users and groups, and migrating applications and artifacts. End users utilize the functionalities of the applications; for example, to create plans using a Planning application.
Typically, administrative users cannot perform EPM System product functions. For example, without functional role assignments, a Planning Provisioning Manager cannot create or manage plans using a Planning application.