Describing Business Partners
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 properties page of the business partner provides access to:
• its Owner, by default on creation of the business partner, the current enterprise.
• 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.
For more details on business architecture environments, see Managing a business architecture environment.• the Assignment page is used to specify the persons and the person groups associated with the business partner.
For more details on assignments, see Connecting a person to a person group.Connecting a person to a person group
Persons (for example: Mr. Dupont or the ISD) or person groups (for example, governance organizations: Architectural Firm or Executive Committee) can be attached to various constituent elements of the business architecture, including businesses or 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 HOPEX 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.