Grant business area access to users or roles mandatory.

Introduction to Administering Discoverer with a Relational Data Source 3-9 What are the system prerequisites? Before you can use Discoverer Administrator: ■ A suitable database must be installed and available. An Oracle Enterprise Edition database will support the use of materialized views to improve the performance of summary folders. ■ Discoverer Administrator must have been installed on a PC, typically as part of a full Oracle Classic Suite installation. Before end users can use Discoverer, either one or both of the following must have been installed: ■ Discoverer Plus or Discoverer Viewer must have been installed on an application server machine and configured correctly as part of an Oracle Business Intelligence installation for more information, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer ■ Discoverer Desktop must have been installed on the end users’ PCs. What are the data access prerequisites? To create and maintain a Discoverer system using Discoverer Administrator, you will require certain Discoverer privileges and database privileges: ■ to create an EUL you must have the privileges described in: ■ What privileges do you require to create an End User Layer in an Oracle database? ■ What privileges do you require to create an End User Layer in a non-Oracle database? ■ to manage an EUL you must have: ■ the Discoverer Administration privilege on the EUL ■ the Allow Administration privilege on business areas you want to modify ■ the SELECT database privilege on any tables you want to add to a business area ■ to install the sample data, see Chapter 27, Installing the Discoverer Sample Data EUL, Data, and Workbook . ■ to take advantage of the following Discoverer features, you need specific privileges: ■ Automated Summary Management for more information, see What are the prerequisites for creating summary folders with ASM? ■ manual summary folder creation for more information, see What are the prerequisites for creating summary folders manually in Discoverer? To use a Discoverer system, end users will require certain Discoverer and database privileges: ■ access to at least one EUL ■ access to at least one business area in the EUL ■ the SELECT database privilege granted either directly to database users or through a database role on the tables on which folders in a business area are based