The HOPEX Business Architecture desktop
The menus and commands available in HOPEX Business Architecture depend on the product licenses that you have and on the profile with which you are connected.
For more details on using the Web platform for HOPEX solutions, see the HOPEX Common Features guide.Presenting the business function architecture desktop
All HOPEX users have access to the following panes:
• Home and List of Tasks that are common to all HOPEX solution users.
• Ideation used to manage ideas about projects evolutions.
For more details on managing Ideation, see "Submitting and evaluating ideas", page 587.• Transformation used to manage project portfolios and access specific reports if your license allows.
For more information on project portfolio management, see the HOPEX Project Portfolio Management guide.• Reports: accesses all reports, improving understanding of terms and their use.
In addition to the panes offered in standard mode to all desktop users, the business architect has access to the panes described below.
The Vision pane
The Vision pane provides access to the following menus.
• Motivation, to describe the change drivers and assess them within the framework of strategic assessments;
• Strategic planning
• Enterprise Strategic View tree to display the enterprise stages and the Ends and Means of action,
• Enterprise Architecture View tree to display the enterprise stages and the business capabilities maps, the business function architecture environments and the connected solution environments building blocks.
• Several dedicated reports.
• Inventories, to access the main objects.
The Business Architecture pane
The Business Architecture pane provides access to the following menus:
• Business Architecture Environment by Stage to display the Environments tree view and their breakdown into components by stage as well as several reports;
• Inventories of main Business Architecture objects.
The Organization Architecture pane
The Organizational Architecture pane provides access to the inventory of the main objects of the organization.
The logical application architecture pane
The pane can be accessed with the HOPEX IT Strategy option .The Logical Application Architecture pane provides access to the following menus:
• Logical Application Architecture to display the application logical application architectures tree view as well as several reports;
• Inventories of main logical applications objects.
The Application Architecture pane
The pane can be accessed with the HOPEX IT Strategy option .The Application Architecture pane provides access to the following menus:
• Application Architecture to display the application architecture hierarchy and their breakdown by stage;
• Inventories of main application objects.
The Technical Architecture pane
The pane can be accessed with the HOPEX IT Strategy option .The Technical Architecture pane provides access to the following menus:
• Technical Architecture to display the tree of the Resource Architecture Environments and their breakdown by stage;
• Inventories of main technical architecture objects.
Presenting the Strategic Planning functional administrator desktop
The strategic planning functional administrator has the same panes as the business architect, he also has the following panes Dashbord, Environment and Administration.
The Dashboard pane
The Dashboard pane provide access to widgets, which use formatters in the form of reports or other HTML pages. They enable fast access to repository information such as reports.
For more details on managing widgets, see Customizing Your Dashboard.The Environment pane
The Environment pane provides access to the following menus:
• Enterprises, to build enterprises, allocate users to working environments and declare regulation frameworks.
• Reports, which provide access to the Container dependencies analysis report to manage the dependencies between the objects used by the enterprises and their owning libraries.
Objects can be defined by the functional administrator as imported by enterprises or assigned to a different owner to correct the errors.The Administration pane
The Administration pane provides access to the users and profiles management features.
For more details on managing users, see "Managing Users", page 21.Switching Between Profiles with HOPEX Business Architecture
To switch between profiles with the HOPEX solutions, see Customizing Your Personal Parameters.
Using properties pages
Displaying the properties window on a permanent basis
You can choose to display the property windows in HOPEX on a permanent basis so as to view immediately the properties of an object.
To display the properties window on a permanent basis:
1. Click the Properties 
button on the top right-hand side.
button on the top right-hand side.The Properties window appears in the Edit Area.
2. Select an object.
Its properties appear.
HOPEX Business Architecture properties pages content
HOPEX Business Architecture provides properties pages available for several solutions.
Using the facilities described in the HOPEX Power Studio guide, you can customizing the properties pages of your solution.The pages below are common to main HOPEX Business Architecture objects.
• The Usage page provides access to the enterprise stages that use the described object.
For more details on use of an object in an enterprise stage, see "Defining enterprise stages", page 96.• the KPI Dimension is used to access to:
• the Composite KPI Dimension section which provides the list of composite KPI dimensions associated to the described object.
• the KPI Dimension section which provides the list of KPI dimensions associated to the described object.
For more details, see "Using KPIs", page 68.• The Implementation page provides access to the list of Enterprise Architecture solution building blocks that implement the described object.
For more details on implementation of business capabilities, see "Describing component fulfillment", page 66.• the Assignment page is used to specify the managers of the described component.
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.• the Collaboration page provides access to collaborative tools available with HOPEX.
For more details on the use of collaborative tools, see "Accessing collaboration in HOPEX", page 484.