Warehouse Roles & Authorizations

There are vast amount of data found around MIT. Many of these data sources find their way to the data warehouse for various reasons, including reporting. Ensuring that only authorized people have access to our data is a very important task. We use the Roles application to manage authorization to data within the data warehouse, as well as other systems across campus.

During this session, we will discuss the following:

• What are authorizations
• Roles Web
• Roles Application
• How does a roles authorization affect warehouse data