Describing Business Parters
A business partner designates a third-party who is in relation with the enterprise within the framework of a given business architecture environment. Examples: private sector client, regulatory organization, supplier.
Accessing the business partners list
To access the list of business partners from the Business Architecture navigation pane:
Select
Inventories > Business Partners in the navigation menu.
The list of business partners appears in the edit area.
The properties of a business partner
The Characteristics property page of the business architecture provides access to:
• its Owner, by default during creation of the business partners, this is the current enterprise plan.
• its Name,
• the text of its Description.
With HOPEX Business Architecture, a business partner is described by the following pages:
• the Usage page that is used to draw up the list of business architecture environments in which the business partner is used.
• the Assignment page is used to specify the persons and the person groups associated with the business partner.
Assigning a business partner
Persons (for example: Mr Dupont or the ISD) or person groups (for example, the governance organizations: Architectural Firm or Executive Committee) can be attached to various constituent elements of the business architecture, including business partners.
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.
For more details, see "Managing a business architecture environment".