About Alternative Security Options

This chapter describes security concepts and options for a standalone implementation of Oracle BI Publisher that is not installed as part of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Note the following:

• If you have installed the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition, then see Security Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition for information about security.

• If you have installed BI Publisher on its own and you plan to use Oracle Fusion Middleware Security, then see Understanding the Security Model. The following topics will be of interest in this chapter:

  • About Catalog Permissions

  • About Access to Data Sources

• To configure BI Publisher with these other Oracle security models:

  • Oracle BI Server security

  • Oracle E-Business Suite security

  • Oracle Database security

  • Siebel CRM security

  See Integrating with Other Oracle Security Models.

Use the information in this chapter to configure the following:

• BI Publisher Security

• Integration with an LDAP provider

  Note:

  Any identity store provider that is supported by Oracle WebLogic Server can be configured to be used with BI Publisher. Configuring BI Publisher to use an alternative external identity store is performed using the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console. For this configuration, see Customizing the Default Security Configuration.

• Integration with a Single Sign-On provider