System Administrator Over view

Who is System Administrator ??

A System Administrator is a person responsible for controlling access to Oracle Applications and assuring smooth ongoing operation. Each site where Oracle Applications is installed needs a system administrator to perform tasks such as:

•  Managing and controlling security. Decide which users have access to each application, and within an application, which forms, functions, and reports a user can access.

•  Setting up new users. Register new Oracle Applications users, and give them access to only those forms, functions, and reports they need to do their jobs.

•  Auditing user activity. Monitor what users are doing and when they do it. Choose who to audit and what type of data to audit.

•  Setting user profiles. A user profile is a set of changeable options that affects the way Oracle Applications look and behave. A System Administrator can set user profile values at the site, application, responsibility, and user levels.

•  Managing concurrent processing. Concurrent Processing is an Oracle Applications facility that lets long–running, data–intensive tasks run simultaneously with online operations, taking full advantage of multitasking and parallel processing. A System Administrator can monitor and control concurrent processing using a few simple forms.

What is Responsibility :: 

A responsibility is a level of authority in Oracle Applications that lets users access only those Oracle Applications functions and data appropriate to their roles in an organization. Each responsibility allows access to:

•  A specific application or applications, such as Oracle General Ledger or Oracle Planning.

•  A set of books, such as U.S. Operations or German Sales or an organization,such as New York Manufacturing or New York Distribution.

•  A restricted list of windows that a user can navigate to; for example, a responsibility may allow certain Oracle Planning users to enter forecast items, but not enter master demand schedule items.

•  A restricted list of functions a user can perform. For example, two responsibilities may have access to the same window, but one responsibility’s window may have additional function buttons that the other responsibility’s window does not have.

•  Reports in a specific application; as system administrator, you can assign groups of reports to one or more responsibilities, so the responsibility a user choose determines the reports that can be submitted. Each user has at least one or more responsibilities and several users can share the same responsibility. A system administrator can assign users any of the standard responsibilities provided with Oracle Applications, or create new custom responsibilities.