User profiles

User profiles are the entry point to Alfabet. Every user must access Alfabet with a user profile that has been assigned by a user administrator. Your user profile will determine the functionalities and views that you see as well as whether you have read-only vs. read/write permissions to the assets you see. The following preconfigured user profiles are available:

• The Portfolio Admin user profile is for superusers who are responsible to complete administrative tasks. They have exclusive access to views that are required for user and account management, data import, administrative jobs, and configuration and have read/write permissions to all data in the repository regardless of object authorization.
• The Portfolio Manager user profile is for users who are responsible to input, maintain and analyze data relevant for IT portfolio management. Users can view all assets in the repository and have read/write permissions to all assets that they have authorized access to via the authorized user or authorized user group definition.

  authorized user

  An authorized user has primary responsibility to maintain the data for an object. Typically this is the user that has created the object. The authorized user as well as members of authorized user groups have write permissions to objects they are responsible for.

  authorized user group

  An authorized user group is a set of users that have been granted write permissions to an object. More than one authorized user group may be specified for an object.

• The Application Manager user profile is for users who are responsible for capturing and maintaining data relevant for application portfolio management.
• The Technology Manager user profile. is for users who are responsible for capturing and maintaining data relevant for technology portfolio management.
• The Portfolio Analyst user profile is for users who are interested in seeing up-to-date analytics about the IT portfolio in order to understand the most business-relevant questions and make informed strategic decisions. Users can view all business questions and have read-only access permissions to all assets in the repository.
• The Resource Manager user profile is for users that are responsible for maintaining the data relevant offered and requested resources in order to manage the availability and consumption of skills by organizations, teams, and projects.
• The Team Member user profile allows users who are specified to provide skills and resources to manage those tasks and their timesheets.

Change your user profile. Users may have more than one user profile depending on their areas of responsibility in the company. Change to another user profile at any time via the Profile menu.

Click here to see how. 

Specify your default user profile for easy log in. You can specify the user profile to use per default when you log in to Alfabet.

1. Click your user icon in the upper right corner of the screen and select User Settings.
2. Change the Default User Profile field. If no default user profile is specified, the last user profile you were working with will be used.