Managing Application Security

In This Section:

Application Security Considerations

Launching the Shared Services Console from Financial Management

Loading Application Security

Extracting Application Security

Security and access rights enable you to control access to Financial Management applications and application elements. Setting up security enables you to protect data and prevent unauthorized users from changing data. For example, you can restrict access to certain data elements or forms within an application.

Security exists at two levels:

There are two ways to set up security for Financial Management applications:

These security roles are required for application administration. For information on assigning roles, see the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System User Security Administration Guide.

Security Role

Description

Financial Management Administrator

Required for accessing administration functionality.

Dimension Editor

Creates and manages import profiles for dimension creation, as well as creating and managing dimensions manually.

Required to access Classic application administration options.

Financial Management Application Creator/Financial Management Manager

Creates applications. Users with this role can create applications, but can change only the dimensions to which they have access permissions.

When a user with Application Creator role deploys an application from Performance Management Architect, that user automatically becomes the application administrator and provisioning manager for that application. The Application Creator can create all applications.

The Financial Management Application Creator can create Consolidation applications and Generic applications. To create applications, the user must also be a member of the Application Creators group specified in the Configuration Utility.