Overview of Security for Oracle SCM Cloud Analytics

Security for viewing, creating, and editing Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM analytics includes three levels:

Access to the folders where the analyses and dashboards are stored
Access to the data that you want the analysis or dashboard to return
Access to business intelligence functionality

This topic provides an overview of how analyses and dashboards are secured so that you understand what security roles or access you may need to request from your security administrator to create and edit analyses and dashboards.

Access to Subject Areas

Subject areas are functionally secured using duty roles. The names of duty roles that grant access to subject areas include the words Transaction Analysis Duty (for example, Product Transaction Analysis Duty). These duty roles belong to the OBI application.

Access to Analyses and Dashboards in the BI Catalog

To access delivered analyses and dashboards, you access the Business Intelligence Catalog (BI Catalog). The folders in the BI Catalog are functionally secured using the same duty roles that secure access to the subject areas. Therefore, a user who inherits the Workforce Transaction Analysis Duty can access both the Workforce Management folder in the Business Intelligence Catalog and the Workforce Management subject areas. Analyses and dashboards are secured based on the folders in which they're stored. You can set permissions against folders and reports for Application Roles, Catalog Groups, or Users.

Reporting Data

The data that's returned in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence reports is secured in a similar way to the data that's returned in Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM pages. Data access is granted by roles that are linked to security profiles. Each of the Transaction Analysis Duty roles that grants access to subject areas and Business Intelligence Catalog (BI Catalog) folders inherits one or more Reporting Data Duty roles. These duty roles grant access to the data. The Reporting Data Duty roles belong to the SCM application.

Business Intelligence Roles

Business Intelligence roles apply to both Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (Oracle BI Publisher) and Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence. 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 addition to the roles that grant access to reports, subject areas, Business Intelligence catalog folders, and Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM Cloud.