Business Intelligence Roles: Explained

Business Intelligence roles apply to both Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (Oracle BI Publisher) and Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI). They grant access to Business Intelligence functionality, such as the ability to run or author reports. Users need one or more of these roles in

Business Intelligence roles are defined as application roles in Oracle Entitlements Server. This table identifies those 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 Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher 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

The BI Author Role inherits the BI Consumer Role. Users with BI Author Role can create, edit, and run OTBI reports.

BI Administrator Role

BI Administrator Role is a superuser role. It inherits BI Author Role, which inherits BI Consumer Role.

The predefined Sales Cloud job roles do not 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 BI Publisher data models.