Managing User Accounts and Sessions

Last updated: June 10, 2026

Effective administration of user accounts and sessions is one of the foundational pillars of a secure and well-organized analytics environment. As your team grows, and as different stakeholders require different levels of access, from full administrators managing data infrastructure to simple viewers consuming dashboards, it becomes crucial to clearly define roles, group memberships, session behavior, and password policies. The following topics describe the essential aspects of user and session management in Sisense, to ensure both security and usability:

• User Roles and Permissions Customization — how to define and customize roles (e.g., Admin, Designer, Viewer, Data Admin, Data Designer, etc.), and adjust permissions associated with each role (what a user can and cannot do: create dashboards, edit data sources, export data, etc.).

• Managing Individual Dashboard Users — how to add, edit, or delete users; how to assign them roles; how to configure their personal settings (email, login credentials, language, etc.); and how to control which dashboards or data sources they can access.

• Organizing Users via Groups — how to create and manage user groups, assign users to groups, and leverage group-level role assignments to simplify permissions management (e.g. sharing dashboards with entire groups). This also supports different group origins (internal or imported via AD/SSO) and default settings such as theme or language.

• User Sessions and Inactivity/Timeout Settings — how Sisense handles user sessions and how you can configure session-inactivity timeouts (including group-level timeout settings), improving security by automatically terminating idle sessions.

• Password Policy Management — how to define and enforce password-related policies (strength, renewal, complexity, etc.) to ensure users’ credentials remain secure. When creating a user manually, you can define a password (and users can later change it), and administrators can enforce the overall password policy to align with organizational standards.

Together, these components define who can access what, how they access it, and how their access is protected and managed — whether through role-based permissions, group assignments, session timeouts, or secured passwords. Properly managing user accounts and sessions ensures that access to sensitive data and system-level capabilities remains under control, while still enabling collaboration, dashboard sharing, and data exploration across your organization.