Roles installed with Impact

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Impact offers many roles to assign to fit your business needs. When you log in to Impact, you’ll see a personalized view of your objectives, metrics, and recommendations tied directly to your role.

Impact platform roles control access across administration, development support, code scanning, system monitoring, and user engagement. Assign roles based on user responsibilities and access requirements.

Category

Role

API Role Name

Key Capabilities

Administrative

Impact Platform Owner

sn_impact_common.Impact Platform Owner

  • Full access to all Impact features
  • Premium access management for Instance Observer and Developer Support
  • Access Platform Owner dashboard
  • Request Accelerators and advisory sessions
  • Can't assign or configure roles to users or groups (See Impact App Admin)

Administrative

Impact Portfolio Owner

sn_impact_common.Impact Portfolio Owner

  • Full CRUD on Impact tables
  • Access Platform Owner dashboard
  • Request Accelerators and advisory sessions

Administrative

Impact Permissions Authorizer

Impact Permissions Authorizer

  • Approve permissions for Impact features requiring consent
  • Manage initiative permissions
  • Manage group permissions
  • Approve pending activity requests
  • Decline pending activity requests

Administrative

Impact Admin

sn_impact_common.Impact Admin (BDA)

  • Full access to all Impact features
  • Premium access management for Instance Observer and Developer Support
  • User account management
  • Day-to-day platform administration

Administrative and Scan Engine

Impact App Admin

sn_impact_common.Impact App Admin

  • Full CRUD access to Impact tables
  • Assign and configure roles to users or groups
  • Configure Platform Health
  • Scan Engine capabilities:
    • Manage scan settings
    • Manage exception reasons
    • Initiate scans
    • Execute scans

Development and Scan Engine

Impact Developer

sn_impact_common.Impact Developer

  • Access Scan Engine findings and developer workflows
  • View personal technical debt and findings
  • Perform on-demand scans excluding scheduled scans
  • Access developer dashboard
  • View Scan Engine results
  • Submit exception requests

Development and Scan Engine

Development Team Lead

sn_impact_common.Impact Development Team Lead

  • View all team findings and scan results
  • Manage team members
  • Access Development Team Lead dashboard
  • Perform on-demand scans excluding scheduled scans

Development and Support

Impact Developer Support

Impact Developer Support

  • Submit Developer Support cases for break-fix troubleshooting for Advanced and Total packages
  • Request custom development work

Scan Engine

Scan Engine Admin

sn_se.scan_engine_admin

  • Full access to all Scan Engine functions and results
  • Configure and manage Scan Engine
  • Manage exception reasons
  • Manage approval workflows
  • Enable AI-generated code fix capabilities
  • View all scan results and findings
  • Initiate scans

Scan Engine

Scan Engine User

sn_se.scan_engine_user

  • Access Scan Engine findings
  • View scan initiation buttons without initiation functions
  • View Scan Engine results

Scan Engine

Exception Approver

sn_se.scan_engine_exception_approver

  • Approve and reject exception reason requests
  • Receive and triage exception notifications

Scan Engine

AI Fix User

sn_impact_gen_ai_ai_fix_user

  • Access AI-generated code fix capabilities
  • View code fix suggestions from Now Assist
  • Apply AI-generated remediation code

Scan Engine

Internal REST Integration

sn_iu_internal_rest_integration

  • Enable REST API integration for Scan Engine
  • Sync Scan Engine definitions
  • Sync exception reasons
  • Sync Update Set scanning data
  • Perform automated data synchronization

Instance Observer

IO Standard

io_standard

  • Full access to all Instance Observer features
  • Create alert rules, manage alert rules, manage alert groups
  • Access performance dashboards, generate reports, manage dashboards, triage alerts
  • Schedule reports
  • Access availability insights

Instance Observer

IO Read Only

io_readonly

  • View alerts
  • View rules
  • View integrations
  • View reports

User-Level

Impact Executive

sn_impact_common.Impact Executive

  • Read access to all Impact features
  • Access Executive Dashboards, Scan Engine
  • Access strategic documents, capability maps, adoption roadmaps, objectives, and value journey
  • Create and update conversations

User-Level

Impact User

sn_impact_common.Impact User

  • Read-only access to Impact
  • Read-only access to all tables
  • Create and update conversations

User-Level

Impact Partner

sn_impact_common.Impact Partner

  • Read-only access to Impact
  • Read access to Capabilities Maps, Product Adoption Roadmaps, Objectives, and Accelerators
  • Request advisory sessions
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