eMite User Roles and Permissions

1 Overview
2 Roles
3 Glossary

Overview

This page discusses and differentiates the current roles that are available within eMite - including their accessibility and permissions/restrictions. The following information can be utilized by customers and stakeholders, also prospects, to get an understanding of the role-based access that eMite provides to its users.

Roles

Roles are used to provide access and permission to all eMite users, and to enable the customers to define privileges for its users, thereby allowing them to access the necessary information.

These roles can be assigned at a user or a user-group level. The roles assigned at user group level will automatically apply to the users within the user group.

There are four types of roles in eMite:

ROLE AND DESCRIPTION	ACCESS	RESTRICTION

ROLE AND DESCRIPTION	ACCESS	RESTRICTION
eMiteAdmin Most powerful role in eMite, also called “Superuser”; Automatically granted access to every permission available in eMite	Access to all features within eMite dashboard UI, eMite KPI Admin portal, and administrative portals (e.g. Schema, RTBI, Admin) Control on user accounts, security settings, assigning roles to users and groups, etc.	None
DashboardAdmin Responsible for administrative activities in the organization	Access to all features within eMite dashboard UI, eMite KPI Admin portal, and administrative portals (e.g. Schema, RTBI, Admin)	Cannot create/modify/delete an EmiteAdmin No access to Role for Cube menu in Admin portal, which provides access to Security slicers
DashboardCreator Responsible in creating and modifying dashboards, while not being involved in any administrative activity in the organization	Access to nearly all the features on eMite dashboard UI and eMite KPI Admin portal Can create new pages and dashboards Can create KPIs Can create virtual members, member groups, etc.	No access to administrative portals like Schema, RTBI, and Admin
DashboardViewer For users who must be able to view the dashboards in an organization	Has view-only access to eMite dashboard UI Can view the dashboards that are shared with them	No access to modify the dashboards or carry out actions that could lead to permanent changes in the page or dashboard Restricted features in eMite dashboard UI including Add Content, Share Page, Manage Report, to name a few

Glossary

TERM	DEFINITION

TERM	DEFINITION
eMite Dashboard UI	eMite web page where dashboards are displayed
eMite KPI Admin portal	eMite portal where advanced and custom fields like KPIs, Virtual Members, and Member Groups are created
Schema portal	eMite administrative portal where adapter configurations and other data integrations are set up
RTBI portal	eMite administrative portal that acts as interface to indexes and index groups saved in ElasticSearch
Admin portal	eMite administrative portal where user management and user-group-role mappings are done