About Users and Security

Data sourced from Oracle Fusion Analytics Warehouse is secured by job role, which allocates what each user can and can't do within the application.

About Job Roles

The application administrator can assign job roles to users. Each job role is designed to allow individual users to perform the tasks they need to do while enforcing restrictions to areas of the application that users don't need access to. There are administrative roles behind the scenes, however from a business user's perspective there are two job roles:

Consumer

• Can view pre-configured data objects such as KPIs, cards, and decks
• Can create and manipulate new or copies of pre-configured decks and cards

Author

• Can perform all Consumer functions
• Can create new Oracle Analytics Cloud content
• Can create and manipulate all datasets, data objects, and KPIs
• Can create and manipulate decks and cards created by others

About Security

Object-level security controls the visibility to business logical objects based on a user’s duty role. You can set up object-level security for web objects, such as dashboards, KPIs, visualizations, and so on, and for metadata repository objects, such as business models and subject areas (for custom duty roles).

Data-level security controls the visibility of data (content rendered in visualizations, cards, dashboards, and so on) based on the user’s association to data in Oracle Fusion Analytics Warehouse. The same card, visualization, or analysis, when run by two different users, can bring up different data. However, the structure of the card, visualization, or analysis is the same for all users, unless a user doesn't have access to the subject area the card, visualization, or analysis is based on, in which case the report displays ‘You don’t have permission to access this card. Please contact the admin.’