Overview of Provisioning Steps

All Oracle Hyperion Shared Services provisioning activities must be performed by a Functional Administrator or Provisioning Manager.

Provisioning users and groups should follow a provisioning plan tailored for your organization. Typically, you should create Functional Administrators and application-specific provisioning managers to provision Oracle Enterprise Performance Management 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 Oracle Hyperion 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.