Project overview

A project is an object that contains all the information that you need to build and run an analysis job and view analysis results. Each project is unique, depending on the analytical settings that were configured in the project when it was created. However, multiple projects can access the same metadata that is stored in the repository and share the same users and data sources across suite components.

Typically, a project administrator or a user with administrative rights creates a project and configures all of the data source connections and security options that are associated with the project. After a connection to a data store is created, the administrator imports metadata and registers it to the project. Only the administrator has access to connection information and security options. An administrator uses the security options to assign user roles to authorized users. A user can then access certain project tasks depending on the role that they were assigned.

The following diagram shows the project creation process.