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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 Inventories navigation menu:
*Select Business Architecture > Business Partners.
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,
• Its business partner group, see Drawing up the Roadmap,
• the text of its Description.
With HOPEX IT Business Management , 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 Usage page provides access to the business function architecture environments that use the described object, see Describing a Business Architecture Environment.