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Authorizations

Authorization concepts that scale with the organisation — from characteristic-level analysis authorizations to a custom cockpit managing multiple auth-relevant dimensions.

Analysis authorizationsRSECADMINCustom cockpitHierarchy authorizationsField-level auth
ENTITYdimension REGIONdimension MARKETdimension LOCAL / CONSOLIDATEDcustom dimension AUTH COCKPITcustom-builtsingle point of maintenance GENERATEDanalysis authorizationsRSECADMIN QUERYRUNTIME business-maintained dimensions → generated authorizations → enforced everywhere
The custom cockpit: business-maintained dimensions, generated analysis authorizations, runtime enforcement.
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BW is different

Reporting security is more than roles: analysis authorizations restrict at characteristic, hierarchy-node and key-figure level — and must hold consistently across queries, planning functions and every frontend.

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Many dimensions, one model

Entity, region, market, local versus consolidated view — real organisations restrict along several dimensions at once. Modelled naively, the combinations explode; modelled well, they stay maintainable.

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Governed and auditable

Generated rather than hand-maintained authorizations are transparent by construction: every value traceable to a business decision, every change documented — a natural fit for regulated environments.

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In practice: the authorization cockpit

I designed and built a custom cockpit-based authorization concept: business owners maintain multiple auth-relevant dimensions in a single interface, and the corresponding analysis authorizations are generated automatically — consistent, auditable and dramatically cheaper to administer. Field-level authorization design goes back as far as my Coop Hungary project.

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