Understanding The Tenant-Role-User Relationship

Tenants, Roles, and Users

Within Analytics Center, users fit into categories that define their relationships with other users. Analytics Center utilizes these relationships to define access rights of features, data, reports, and dashboards.

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Fig. 1 Tenant-Role-User Relationship

Users

A user is the elemental classification of an entity within Analytics Center.

  • Users have a user name and token to grant access to various parts of Analytics Center

  • A user does not have to have a defined tenant or a defined role

    • A user either has a tenant/role or the user is a System Administrator. Within your User Setup, you will able to toggle a user to be an Administrator.

    • System Administrators can impersonate tenant views to navigate the platform with a tenant’s access.

  • A user can belong to more than one role

For more on User Setup, please see the User Setup.

Roles

A role is a classification within a tenant and are used to define natural distinctions between users. For instance, your company man have an IT Department that is interested in bug reports and a Sales Department that is interested in quarterly sales. Roles will allow you to filter the data available for each role so that they only see relevant information. - Roles can overlap each other but roles cannot be subsets of each other

For more on Role Setup, please see the Role Setup.

Tenants

Tenants are the largest user classification available. A tenant is generally used to define one definite entity with a broad access to features, data, reports, and dashboards. - Users and roles can only belong to 1 tenant

Tenant System Modes

  • Analytics Center is built to support two main system configuration modes:

Single Tenant

Single tenant allows you to set up Analytics Center for a single client scenario.

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Fig. 2 Single Tenant Mode

Multi-Tenant

Multi-Tenant provides an easy management of multiple clients on the same instance of Analytics Center.

  • If you use multi-tenant mode, you can choose to allow duplicated User IDs where an ID can be used in multiple tenants. These User IDs do not reference the same user.

  • Roles can mirror each other in each tenant but roles cannot exist between tenants.

  • Users can mirror each other in each tenant but users, other than a System Administrator, cannot exist between tenants.

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Fig. 3 Multi-Tenant Mode