Business Intelligence Roles

Business Intelligence roles grant access to analytics functionality, such as the ability to run or author reports. Assign users one or more of these roles, in addition to roles that grant access to reports, subject areas, catalog folders, and sales data.

Business Intelligence roles apply to both Oracle Analytics Publisher and Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI).

These are 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 data models.

BI Consumer Role

The predefined OTBI Transaction Analysis Duty roles inherit the 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 OTBI reports. All predefined sales job roles that inherit an OTBI Transaction Analysis Duty role are also assigned the BI Author Role at the job role level, except for the Sales Representative job role which isn't assigned the BI Author role.

BI Administrator Role

BI Administrator Role is a superuser role. It inherits BI Author Role, which inherits BI Consumer Role. The predefined sales and service job roles don't 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. Users with either of these predefined job roles can manage BI Publisher data models.