Thank you for your response. OK, so it means I can use custom Authentication Provider to define Groups, but not the custom Authorization Provider to define App Roles, this can by only done in FMW EM, right?

Question was: ?Can OBIEE be integrated with Weblogic Authorization Provider (defined in Security Realm)? If NOT is it due the fact that OBIEE uses own proprietary security "storage" for authorization (application Roles and Privs.)?

nice... OK could we answer the simple question to conclude this thread? ... The guide Oracle® Fusion Middleware Security Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition: 1.2 Overview of Security in Oracle Business Intelligence (cited above) says: "Oracle Business Intelligence 12c is tightly integrated with the…

No our service doesn't support LDAP protocol, it has proprietary XML request/response interface and construct the LDAP authentication request internally. For authorization it supports only XML content HTTP request/response and loads security policy from DB. Service doesn't allow loading/storing security policy over LDAP,…

It's the service with HTTP interface using separate DB for authentication / authorization (and supporting LDAP for authentication) with Java/.NET/C++ clients libs implementation. I think there is the possibility to load authorization data directly from DB, but not the authentication part due the LDAP internal request…