2 Managing Applications

An application consists of a set of entities, accounts, scenarios, and other dimensions that you use together. You can create as many applications as you need. For example, you can set up one application to report on tax data for several organizations and another application to report on Security and Exchange Commission data for other organizations.

For application administration, these security roles are required: Dimension Editor and Financial Management Application Creator/Financial Management Manager. For information on roles, see the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System User Security Administration Guide .

Applications run on application servers. You can set up clusters of application servers to balance the load on multiple servers. For instructions, see the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Installation and Configuration Guide .

Only members of the Administrator group that you specify when you configure the application server can perform these administrative tasks:

Users on System

• List users

• Log out users

Manage Servers and Applications

• View disabled components

• Enable or disable connections

• Log out users

System Messages

• View - must be member of Administrator group

• Delete - must be member of Administrator group

To assign users to the Administrator Group, see the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System User Security Administration Guide .