Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management

Service Administrator

Performs all functional activities in an environment.

This role should be granted to functional experts who need to create and administer Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management application and service components.

Power User

Drives the model development and execution process. This role grants high-level access to several functional areas within an environment and should be granted to the lead modelers and integrators working with the model, and business users in charge of a region who need to control the calculation process.

Power Users can perform all the activities that a User can perform. Additionally, a Power User can perform these tasks:

• Creates ad hoc grids and writes back into ad hoc grids, creates and maintains Reports and Financial Reporting reports, and loads data using Data Integration
• Creates, clears, and copies POV data
• Creates and runs integrations
• Creates models
• Creates and edits profit curve

User

Enters data where user input is requested, runs analytical tools and reports, and designs rules and calculations. Users can perform all the tasks that Viewers can perform. A User can perform these additional operations:

• Performs ad hoc functions, but cannot write back into ad hoc grids or load data using Data Integration
• Performs drill through
• Creates, modifies, and deletes rules
• Performs mass edits of rules
• Runs rule balancing
• Runs validations
• Runs calculations, views and deletes calculation history
• Previews Reports and Books

Viewer

Views and analyzes data but does not have write access. Specifically, a Viewer performs these operations:

• Runs profit curve
• Runs trace allocation
• Views models