MicroStrategy security overview
MicroStrategy offers us a very powerful and flexible mechanism of security. It gives us the power to manage our environment on a very granular level. The complexity of security depends on business requirements and our fantasy, that is, we can design and implement any security model in order to meet business requirements and we can choose several ways to do it. Before we start to create our own security model, we should be familiar with the main terms of MicroStrategy security functionality.
MicroStrategy allows us several options to manage security at the project source level:
Users
Groups
Privileges
Security roles
The following diagram demonstrates an overview of MicroStrategy security functionality:
Let's look at security functionality more closely.
Users and groups
Usually, we create a username for every individual using their name and surname. We create a username and password. It is good practice to use one template of username. For example, if my name is Dmitry...
