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.
For more details on other property pages, see "HOPEX Business Architecture properties pages content", page 28.With HOPEX Business Architecture, a business partner is described by:
• the Service and Request Points page, which specifies the services expected or delivered by a business partner.
For more information on these service points and request points, see Managing service points and request points.• The Driver page provides access to the business function architecture environments that use the described object, see "Describing the business architecture environment", page 96.
• The Driver page, which provides access to the list of components of the business partner.
For more details on drivers specification, see Handling transformation drivers.For more details on other property pages, see "HOPEX Business Architecture properties pages content", page 28.