Reporting and Analysis roles are assigned to users from the Shared Services Console. In addition to global roles, access preferences can be specified on Reporting and Analysis artifacts such as folders and documents (reports, charts, dashboards, and so on). Usually, access privileges on these artifacts are assigned to groups of users.
Reporting and Analysis products such as Financial Reporting, Oracle's Hyperion® Interactive Reporting, and Web Analysis require you to access data from a data source (for example, Essbase and Financial Management) to create meaningful reports and dashboards. Because the data that Reporting and Analysis products access is owned by the data source, a provisioning interdependency exists between the data source and Reporting and Analysis. For example, assume that user JDoe is provisioned with Reporting and Analysis roles but is not provisioned for Essbase application Esb_Demo1. In this scenario, JDoe cannot use Web Analysis to analyze data from Esb_Demo1 if the user logs into Essbase as jDoe. This user may, however, log into Essbase as a different user who is provisioned for Essbase application.