Filtering Data by Business Area and Business Area Cycle
Business areas are organizational categories that reflect the structure of your business. Jobstreams are assigned to business areas. Business areas are assigned to users. This means that in addition to organizing processes logically as needed in your business, business areas give you easy access to the data you need for your daily work. Business areas also facilitate many other essential functions related to jobstreams, such as filtering, managing alerts, defining processing cycles and many more.
Business area cycles are the time frames in which you can expect the batch processes in the business area to run. For example, let's suppose that the batch processes for the Human Resources department kick off every day at 7 pm and that they must be finished by 7 am the next day. The batch processes for the Finance department kick off every day at 7:30 am and must be finished at 12:30 the same day. In this case, the Human Resources business area cycle would be 12 hours starting at 7 pm every night and ending at 7 am each morning. The Finance cycle would start at 7:30 every day and end 5 hours later the same day.
AAI lets you filter data by business area and by business area cycle (previous, current or next). Filtering by business area cycle is an alternative and useful way to monitor the jobstream performance as it relates to how you expect its processing to behave. If the Business Day feature doesn’t apply to a given view, then the user can simply specify that AAI looks back, or looks forward for a given number of hours.
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