Working with Business Entities

A business entity is a hierarchical object. Business entities can have parents and children which are themselves business entities. Any level of the business entity structure can have other objects linked to them such as processes and risk assessments.

This information applies only to standard framework models, not to basic framework models.

You can perform the following tasks with business entities:

  • Scope and filter report data
  • Determine how data instances are counted
  • Determine how numbers are displayed, such as individual or rollup numbers for a selected business entity
  • Enable drill-down and drill-up in reporting

There are two views of business entities: GPC (grandparent-parent-child) which exists in the framework by default and a hierarchical user defined model.

The user-defined model can be created in IBM OpenPages®. For more information about setting up these recursive object levels, see the IBM OpenPages Administrator's Guide