Analysis applications frequently contain sensitive, confidential information that should be available only to appropriate decision makers. And often, you must limit the information available to a particular decision maker to the area of the business that that person is responsible for. For example, if an analysis application contains company sales data about all sales representatives, customers, and products, you might limit sales representatives to viewing only their own sales data. Regional sales managers might be limited to seeing only sales data for their regions and possibly summarized information for other regions.

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