Stakeholders and roles

Stakeholders are users or user groups that have access to assets in an organization. A role is a set of privileges that you can assign to users and user groups. When the organization administrator creates roles and sets the correct permissions and privileges, the roles define the boundaries within which the users can act. Roles are categorized into user roles and stakeholder roles.

Stakeholders

You associate assets with stakeholders in Data Governance and Catalog. The associated users and user groups appear in the list of stakeholders on the Stakeholders tab. If a user or user group associated with an asset is deleted, the page indicates that the user or user group is deleted. You can view the assets associated with a user or user group on the Users tab on the Access Control page. To view the list of associated access policies or assets, select a user or user group and click Show Policies or Show Assets from the Actions menu.

User roles

A user role defines the permissions and privileges for different types of assets and features. Organization administrators can create and assign user roles for the organization in Administrator. You can assign a user role to the users or user groups in your organization.

You can view access policies associated with user roles on the Users tab on the Access Control page. To view the list of associated access policies, select the user role and click Show Policies from the Actions menu.

For more information about creating user roles and assigning them to users and user groups, see User Administration in Administrator.

Stakeholder roles

A stakeholder role is a defined organizational responsibility that you declare on assets in Metadata Command Center. You create stakeholder roles from user roles. A user with a stakeholder role can have granular access to assets based on the access policies that you configure.

Stakeholder roles allow you to control how authorized users interact with the assets for which they are responsible. A stakeholder role reflects a user's responsibilities as a stakeholder of an asset and allows them to perform governance activities with only the permissions and privileges necessary to perform their tasks.

You can view the access policies or assets associated with a stakeholder role on the Users tab on the Access Control page. To view the list of associated access policies or assets, select the stakeholder role and click Show Policies or Show Assets from the Actions menu.