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Organization Business Lines
The business lines overview presents the different businesses carried out by the enterprise.
*A business line is a skill or grouping of skills of interest for the enterprise. It corresponds for example to major product segments, to distribution channels or to business activities.
Accessing Business Lines
To access the different organization business lines:
*In the Environment desktop, select Organization > Hierarchical Views > Business Lines.
From this page you can view trees of business lines of the organization, consult their properties and create new objects.
*The list of business lines owned by a business line is accessible in the properties page of the business line, section Sub-Business Lines.
To access characteristics of a business line:
*Expand the Characteristics section of the properties pane of the business line that interests you.
Scope of Business Lines
A business line can be implemented by:
• Org-Units: for more details, see Entities.
• Applications: for more details, see Applications.
*Applications are not available in the HOPEX Compliance solution.
• Risks
A business line can be connected to different component types by, for example, Business Processes and Organizational Processes, which use services of the business line. For more details, see Processes.
*In HOPEX IT Risk Management, the Scope section is provided for reference terms only.