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Viewing your Environment
 
Processes
Applications
Business lines
Entities
To access the objects of your environment:
*Click Environment then the sub-menu of interest to you.
*For a detailed description of these objects, see GRC Environment Management.
Processes
*A process category regroups several processes. It serves as a categorization level and provides access to finer grained processes.
*A process describes how to implement all or part of the process required to make a product or handle a flow.
For more details, see Managing Processes.
Applications
*An application is a set of software tools coherent from a software development viewpoint.
For more details, see Managing Applications.
Business lines
*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.
For more details, see Managing Business Lines.
Entities
*Assessment is a mechanism enabling sending of questionnaires to an identified population to obtain assessments (qualitative or quantitative) on identified objects. The assessment is then supplemented by results analysis tools.
For more details, see Managing Entities.