Global roles

A global role is a role that consists of global permissions. You assign a user to a global role to determine which Collibra applications the user can use.

The following table contains the packaged global roles.

Global role	Description
Assessments	A user who can access Assessments.
Asset Grid Admin	A user who can access Asset Grid.
Catalog	A user who can access Data Catalog. The global permissions in this role only require a consumer license.
Catalog Author	A user who can access Data Catalog. Users with this role can also create, edit and delete advanced data types.
Data Dictionary	A user who can access the Data Dictionary application, which contains all the technical metadata of the physical data sources and other data assets.
DataSteward	A user who can access the Data Stewardship application for viewing tags, Business Dimensions and the organization structure, including the responsibilities of the communities and domains.
DataSteward Author	A user who can access the Data Stewardship application to see tags, Business Dimensions and the organization structure, including the responsibilities of the communities and domains. Users with this role can also manage tags on the tags overview page.
Edge integration engineer	A user who can add, edit and delete Edge connections and capabilities.
Edge manager	A user who can create, edit and delete Edge sites.
Edge site	A user who can create a connection between itself, as an Edge site, and Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud. Note The user is not a person, but an Edge site. The user is automatically created when you install an Edge site.
Edge site administrator	A user who can download the download and installer files to install an Edge site.
Glossary	A user who can access the Business Glossary application. Users with this role can access all business semantics glossary functionality and workflows concerning business term proposal and approval, data element usage, structure and glossary alignment.
Data Helpdesk	A user who can access the Data Helpdesk application, where users can log issues and check issue statuses and assignees.
Insights	A user who can access Insights Data Access and Usage Analytics.
Policy Manager	A user who can access the Policy Manager application, which is a collection of all governance assets.
Privacy User	A user who can access the Privacy landing page. Note Collibra Data Privacy is a paid product.
ReferenceData	A user who can access the reference data accelerator. Users with this role are typically allowed to: Access all reference data functionality and workflows concerning code proposal, code approval and code mapping. Define and manage the crosswalk, code value and codes set asset types and their subtypes. Define and manage complex relation types such as code mapping.
Sysadmin	A user who can configure and manage the Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud. Users with this role are typically allowed to: Access and modify the Settings. Define and manage the operating model.