About users and roles
Spotfire Cloud offers a solution for data exploration and communication of gained insights for a team. In a team, the account owner invites users and assigns users to one of three roles; Analyst, Business Author, or Consumer.
The roles define if a user can author, edit, and share analyses files or if they are a user of those analyses files.
- An Account owner has financial responsibility for the Spotfire Cloud subscription and is responsible for inviting users to the team. The Account owner also assigns users, depending on the level of authoring required, to one of the following roles: Analyst, Business Author, or Consumer.
- An Analyst can author and edit analyses files and share the files in the Spotfire Cloud. The Analyst has access to both, the Spotfire Cloud Business Author, a web client, and the Spotfire Cloud Analyst download. The Analyst, using the Spotfire Cloud Analyst, is the only users who can configure additional connections to data sources.
- A Business Author, much like the Analyst, can author and edit analyses files, however, a user in this role cannot create connections to data sources. The Business Author has access to the Spotfire Cloud Business Author, a web client.
- A Consumer has access to the Spotfire Cloud Consumer web client and can view, and to some extent, interact with analyses created by an Analyst or a Business Author.
The library folder, where you store analyses files, can be used to define who can view or collaborate on an analysis. If the analysis is stored in a folder configured with the type Private, then no other user can view files in that folder or even the folder name. To share an analysis to Internet users, you can configure the folder to have the type Public. In this case, Anonymous users—that is, people without a Spotfire Cloud account—can access Public folders. For finer-grained control, you can configure a folder type to Shared and then invite people by email address. The people you invite must create a Spotfire Cloud account. If you are a member of a Spotfire Cloud team, you can use the shared Groups area to collaborate on team analyses files.
After an account owner uses a purchase order to sign up for a Spotfire Cloud account, the account owner must invite members to their team and assign roles from their available pool of seats.