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Upgrade Planning for Siebel Access Control

Environments: Development, production test, production.

Platforms: Windows, UNIX, IBM z/OS.

Access control refers to all mechanisms that control visibility of screens, views, and data within Siebel Business Applications. Access control includes, but is not limited to, positions, responsibilities, organizations, and access groups.

To implement access control within your Siebel Business Applications, your Siebel administrator creates relationships between people and resources (a more general term for data that includes views and functionality). These relationships or policies are authorizations. Both people and resources can be grouped and placed in hierarchies to simplify administration.

External users, such as customers and channel partners, can be assigned varying access levels that control visibility of data and application functionality. When planning access policies, consider the following:

• The complexity of access control policies (one data item or group of data items can be accessed by one or many users or groups, but not by all).
• The amount of content that is distributed by the Siebel Business Applications, including Master data (data that is static and referential, such as Products) and Customer data (data that is created and managed by users of applications, such as Opportunities).
• The number of users and entities that access the data. Also consider the complexity of relationships between users (partners, competitors, browsers, customers).

For more information on access control, see Siebel Security Guide.