Overview of Authorization and SecurityThe Authorization and Security functionality enables you to define the permissions (no permission, view, use, and modify) for the employees or employee groups to access data for a specific business process. The Authorization and Security process helps businesses authorize data access based on a role, rule, or company policy across locations, products, or market combinations. For example, management must be allowed to analyze all the data but employees can be authorized only to work on a subset of data. Note If the Authorization and Security functionality is implemented for a business process such as Project Management or Procurement, the usage of various fields are determined based on the specified permissions. The Benefits of the functionality are:
The Limitations of the functionality are:
For authorization types and examples, see:
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