Understanding Oracle BI Enterprise Edition

Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) users are set up separately from EnterpriseOne users. Within EnterpriseOne, a system administrator can set up different securities to control a user's access to certain applications or functionality.

Oracle BI Enterprise Edition has various granularities of security at the folder, report, and data level, which are not provided by EnterpriseOne. EnterpriseOne only controls how to map a user to the Oracle BI user defined by the soft coding values.

When a EnterpriseOne user is viewing OBIEE content, the system uses the mapped Oracle BI Enterprise Edition user account to set up the connection and authentication with the Oracle BI Application Server. Any security setup for that Oracle BI Enterprise Edition user is enforced by the Oracle BI Application Server. For example, the user could navigate from an assigned root folder to another subfolder or could navigate to a dashboard from an action link on a report. It is the administrator's responsibility to protect sensitive objects and data on the Oracle BI Application Server by using the access control list provided by Oracle BI Application Server. This protection is highly recommended.

For more information on setting up access control for BI catalog items, see the Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services Administration Guide.