Effect of Security on the Analytics

Capture Analytics security enables you to control the following:

  • Access to the analytics tabs

  • Access to data based on organization

  • Access to data based on an alternate security field

  • Access to Capture Analytics from the designer and developer tools

 

In this topic

Analytics Tabs Access

Organization Access

Access Based on an Alternate Field

Current Pipeline Access

Pipeline Revenue Forecast Access

Historical Pipeline Access

Bid and Win Rates Access

Ad Hoc Data Discovery Access

Summary Dashboard Access

Designer/Developer Access

 

Analytics Tabs Access

When you run Capture Analytics, the only tabs displayed are those to which you are granted access through your user group. You may have access to all analytics tabs or only to a limited set of them.

Organization Access

When you run Capture Analytics, you can only display data for the opportunities assigned to the organizations to which you are granted access in Capture Analytics security.

When You View Data Based on Organization

When you view data on the Capture Analytics tabs, you can view and analyze all data for opportunities that are assigned to the organizations to which you have access. If your firm also installs Costpoint Analytics, this organization access also applies to the Pipeline summary analytics in Costpoint Analytics – Summary.

Whether or not access to an organization automatically extends to lower-level organizations in the organization hierarchy depends on how you set up Capture Analytics security. When you grant access to an organization, you also have the option to grant access to all lower-level organizations below that organization in the hierarchy.

If the Organization for an Opportunity Changes

If the organization for an opportunity changes, Capture Analytics always bases access to that opportunity’s data on the most current organization.

For example, organization 1.1 was the organization for an opportunity initially but later the opportunity was assigned to organization 1.2 instead.

Organization Security and Filter Lists

The set of organizations to which you have access in Capture Analytics also determines the filter options available to you.

For example, if you view analytics by organization and a project manager has no opportunities that are assigned to the organizations to which you have access, that manager does not appear in the list of possible filter values in the Project Manager filter list.

Access Based on an Alternate Field

For Capture Analytics users that are subject to security based on an alternate field rather based than on organization, access to opportunity data is limited to the opportunities that have the alternate field values to which their network user ID is linked in the CRMAnalyticsEmployeeSecuritySetup.xlsx file.

For a more complete description of security based on an alternate field, see Security Based on an Alternate Field: Key Concepts and related topics.

Capture Analytics SaaS: If you have a Capture Analytics SaaS Subscription, the option to set up security based on an alternate field is not available.

Current Pipeline Access

The Current Pipeline tab in Capture Analytics is only available to members of user groups for which either ALLTABSACCESS or PIPELINE_CURRENT on the USERGROUPS worksheet in the CostpointAnalyticsOrgSecuritySetup.xlsx file contains Y.

When you view data based on organization in Current Pipeline Analytics, you can view and analyze all data for opportunities currently assigned to the organizations to which you have access.

Pipeline Revenue Forecast Access

The Pipeline Revenue Forecast tab in Capture Analytics is only available to members of user groups for which either ALLTABSACCESS or PIPELINE_FORECAST on the USERGROUPS worksheet in the CostpointAnalyticsOrgSecuritySetup.xlsx file contains Y.

When you view data in Pipeline Revenue Forecast Analytics, you can view and analyze all data for opportunities currently assigned to the organizations to which you have access.

Historical Pipeline Access

The Historical Pipeline tab in Capture Analytics is only available to members of user groups for which either ALLTABSACCESS or PIPELINE_HISTORICAL on the USERGROUPS worksheet in the CostpointAnalyticsOrgSecuritySetup.xlsx file contains Y.

When you view data based on organization in Historical Pipeline Analytics, you can view and analyze all data for opportunities currently assigned to the organizations to which you have access.

Bid and Win Rates Access

The Bid and Win Rates tab in Capture Analytics is only available to members of user groups for which either ALLTABSACCESS or PIPELINE_BIDWINRATES on the USERGROUPS worksheet in the CostpointAnalyticsOrgSecuritySetup.xlsx file contains Y.

When you view data in Bid and Win Rate Analytics, you can view and analyze all data for opportunities currently assigned to the organizations to which you have access. (Some opportunities may not be included in the rate calculations, however, depending on how your firm sets up those calculations.)

Ad Hoc Data Discovery Access

The Ad Hoc Data Discovery tab in Capture Analytics is only available to members of user groups for which either ALLTABSACCESS or PIPELINE_AHDD on the USERGROUPS worksheet in the CostpointAnalyticsOrgSecuritySetup.xlsx file contains Y.

Which dimensions display in the Ad Hoc Data Discovery table is controlled by the same security settings that control your access to data on the other analytic tabs. For example, the organization access that your system administrator sets up for your Capture Analytics user role determines the organizations for which you can view metric values in the table.

Summary Dashboard Access

Access to the Summary Dashboard tab in Costpoint Analytics – Summary depends first of all on whether or not your firm installs Costpoint Analytics. If you only have Capture Analytics, Costpoint Analytics – Summary is not available.

If you do have Costpoint Analytics, the Summary Dashboard tab in Costpoint Analytics – Summary is only available to members of user groups for which either ALLTABSACCESS or SUMMARY on the USERGROUPS worksheet in the CostpointAnalyticsOrgSecuritySetup.xlsx file contains Y.

In addition, access to the Pipeline summary analytics on the Summary Dashboard tab are subject to any access restrictions for the Current Pipeline tab, as described above. If you do not have access to the Current Pipeline tab in Capture Analytics, the summary pipeline analytics are not displayed on the Summary Dashboard tab. Costpoint Analytics – Summary also enforces organization access when it displays organizations in the Org filter lists on the Summary Dashboard tab and calculates summary data.  

Designer/Developer Access

If QVACCESS for a user ID in the USERS worksheet in the CostpointAnalyticsOrgSecuritySetup.xlsx file contains ADMIN, that user can create new analytic objects and new tabs within Capture Analytics. If QVACCESS contains USER, they cannot add objects or tabs.

Be aware that users with ADMIN in QVACCESS can create objects that display any data that is available in Capture Analytics or, if your firm has installed it, Costpoint Analytics. You cannot give access to some data items and deny access to others.

Capture Analytics SaaS: If you have a Capture Analytics SaaS Subscription, this setting does not apply. All users can extend the analytics using shared objects, but no one, including a user with ADMIN in QVACCESS, can modify the underlying .QVWs or the data model.