Predefined Application Roles

Oracle Analytics Server provides several predefined application roles to get you started. In many cases, these predefined application roles are all that you need.

Predefined Application Roles in Oracle Analytics Server	Description	Default Members
BI Service Administrator	Allows users to administer Oracle Analytics Server and delegate privileges to others using the Console. This application role is assigned all the available permissions.	Administrator who created the service
DV Content Author	Allows users to create workbooks, load data for data visualizations, and explore data visualizations.	BI Service Administrator
BI Content Author	Allows users to create analyses, dashboards, and pixel-perfect reports in Oracle Analytics Server and share them with others.	BI Service Administrator DV Content Author
DV Consumer	Allows users to explore data visualizations.	DV Content Author
BI Consumer	Allows users to view and run reports in Oracle Analytics Server (workbooks, analyses, dashboards, pixel-perfect reports). Use this application role to control who has access to the service.	DV Consumer BI Content Author
BI Data Model Author	Allows users to create and manage semantic models using Semantic Modeler.	BI Service Administrator
BI Data Load Author	Not used	N/A

You can’t delete predefined application roles or remove default memberships.

Application roles can have users, roles, or other application roles as members. This means that a user who is a member of one application role might indirectly be a member of other application roles.

For example, any member of the BI Service Administrator application role inherits membership of other application roles, such as BI Data Model Author and BI Consumer. This means that any user that is a member of BI Service Administrator can do everything that these other application roles allow. So you don’t need to add a new user (for example, John) to all these application roles. You can simply add the user to the BI Service Administrator application role.