Depending on the degree of flexibility and autonomy required, you can also create one or more Sub-Administrators. Associated with each Administrator workstation is a shared database and Task Processor. The shared database acts as the central data repository. The Task Processor controls the processing, submission, and distribution of data and structures around the system. The Task Processor can be run by its associated Administrator workstation as a background task, or from a dedicated workstation.
Users have full read-write access to their own slice of data and can work connected or disconnected.
What-if scenarios can be performed on this slice without affecting other users accessing the shared database. Although the primary purpose of an Analyst workstation is to analyze existing data rather than to contribute new data, an analyst may have authorization to make ad hoc changes to data directly in the shared database. You can access Analyst workstations as well as create and view personal documents from either Windows or a Web client. As with Analyst workstations, users access the shared database directly, but don't have a personal database and therefore can't create and save their own documents. In addition, the Excel Data Collection Toolkit can help you create a data entry mechanism for infrequent OFA users.