Managing governance bodies
Creating a governance entity
To create an EA organization:
An EA organization is an internal or external person or person group with a defined role in the company plan.
1. From the Environment navigation pane, select Environment > Governance Bodies.
The list of EA organizations appears in the edit area.
2. Click New.
The EA organization creation dialog box appears.
3. Enter the name of the organization you wish to create.
4. Click OK.
Identifying the members of a governance body
By definition, an EA organization is made up of persons and EA sub-organizations attached to it.
A person (System) represents a person in the enterprise. This person can be assigned a login and a role (or a profile depending on the connection mode). The login provides access to the Web Application. The role (or the profile) defines the access to product functions and repositories. A system person, if assigned a login, has a specific desktop in each database, and can connect to this desktop from any workstation in a given environment.
The link between an EA organization and the elements that make it up is managed by a Person membership, or a Sub-organization membership. This membership is used to specify the capability in which a given person, or a given organization, is connected to the EA organization described.
Assigning a person to a governance body
To assign a person to an EA Organization:
1. Open the property pages of the EA Organization that interests you.
2. Select the Characteristics page.
3. In the Person Membership section, click New.
A Person Membership creation window opens.
4. Enter the name of the member that you want to create and click OK.
The new member appears in the list of persons who are members of the EA organization.
5. Select the check box located between the member that you have just created and the Member column to select the person that you want to connect.
6. Click on the check box located between the membership that you have just created and the Role in EA organization column to select the role attributed to the person in this organization.
Allocate one governance body to another
To assign an existing EA organization to an EA Organization:
1. Open the property pages of the main EA Organization.
2. Select the Characteristics page.
3. In the Organization Membership section, click New.
An EA Organization Membership creation window opens.
4. Specify the name of the member that you wish to create.
5. Select the Reuse EA Organization Membership check box.
6. Select the EA organization that interests you.
7. Click OK.
The new membership appears in the list of EA organization members.
For more details on managing libraries, see “About This Guide", page 23.