Setting up security is a mandatory step in a typical Hyperion Planning implementation. While implementing, we'll get to know from the clients about the user community, and who will be accessing the application. If the client organization has offices in several different countries and the budgeting numbers are entered by users from across the globe, then it's our responsibility as consultants to set up security in such a way that all these globally spread users/planners can access the application.
As a part of budgeting, we would be looking at numbers not only at the department/division level; it would roll up at the top organization level and it would be very obvious to state that the data of the whole organization cannot be made available to all the users/ planners. Let us elaborate a little on the same. Consider two persons, the first one is a CFO and the second one is the 'sales head' of a particular region. The CFO, being the decision maker and big man, needs to have access to...