Business Intelligence Roles

Oracle Business Intelligence roles apply to both Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher and Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence. They grant access to Business Intelligence functionality, such as the ability to run or author reports.

These roles are in addition to the roles that grant access to reports, subject areas, Business Intelligence catalog folders, and HCM data. This table lists the Business Intelligence roles.

Business Intelligence Role	Description
BI Consumer Role	Runs Business Intelligence reports.
BI Author Role	Creates and edits reports.
BI Administrator Role	Performs administrative tasks such as creating and editing dashboards and modifying security permissions for reports, folders, and so on.
BI Publisher Data Model Developer Role	Creates and edits Business Intelligence Publisher data models.

BI Consumer Role

The predefined Transactional Business Intelligence Transaction Analysis Duty roles inherit BI Consumer Role. You can configure custom roles to inherit BI Consumer Role so that they can run reports but not author them.

BI Author Role

BI Author Role inherits BI Consumer Role. Users with BI Author Role can create, edit, and run Transactional Business Intelligence reports.

BI Administrator Role

BI Administrator Role is a superuser role. It inherits BI Author Role, which inherits BI Consumer Role. You're recommended to provision this role to users in a test environment only.

None of the predefined HCM job roles have BI Administrator Role access.

BI Publisher Data Model Developer Role

BI Publisher Data Model Developer Role is inherited by the Application Developer role, which is inherited by the Application Implementation Consultant role. Therefore, users with either of these predefined job roles can manage Business Intelligence Publisher data models.