Business Areas

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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.

As a business area coordinator, first you define business areas and then you assign jobstreams to those business areas. A Jobstream can be assigned to more than one business area. In a fresh installation, AAI has a predefined business area called All Jobstreams. You can create as many business area sub-levels as you need.

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Purpose

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Business areas have the following purposes:

  • Organize and assign batch processes (jobstreams) in units that are relevant to your business. Business areas let you recreate your organization's data model in AAI.

  • Filter data per business area everywhere in AAI. By filtering jobstreams by business areas, the teams can customize the AAI views and interfaces (Dashboards, Monitoring, Analysis, and so forth). This way they can focus on the jobstreams that they are responsible for.

  • Send alerts to the user groups and teams that are interested in the processes that run in the respective business area.

    When you define a business area, you can assign it an email address. This address is then used by all jobstreams that run within that business area. If you have configured it so, when an alert occurs for a jobstream in the business area, AAI sends the email to the specified address.

  • Define processing cycles (time frames in which batch processing for specific areas takes place). Each business area has a processing cycle, which means that the jobstream in each business area are processed within that specific time frame. The teams that work with those jobstreams can move back and forth within the jobstream execution cycles.

Use Cases

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We have mentioned that business areas let you organize data so that users can easily access the data that is relevant for them. These are some examples of how you could implement the business area design in AAI:

By Business Unit

You could recreate the structure of your business by creating the following business areas:

  • Sales

  • Finance

  • Human Resources

  • Logistics

  • Operations

By Types of Environments

  • Development

  • Test

  • Production

By Scheduler

  • AutoSys

  • Automic

  • CA7

By Application Areas

  • SAPI

  • PeopleSoft

  • Admin

By Region

  • Americas

  • Asia Pacific

  • EMEA

You can create sub categories of business areas to provide a more granular structure to the AAI data. For example:

  • Sales

    • S_Country

    • S_Product

    • S_Reporting

  • Finance

    • F_Revenue

    • F_Pricing

    • F_Reporting

By assigning jobstreams to business areas, you make sure that the departments and teams in your organization have quick and easy access to the processes that they need to monitor and work with.

Important !

A jobstream can be assigned to more than one business area so it can monitored by several teams.

Naming Conventions

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Give business areas meaningful names that are easily understandable to the users that will consume them.

Dos

  • Descriptive names that can be easily associated to the type of data that the business area provides

  • Consistent format

Don'ts

  • Scheduler-specific terminology

  • Technical names that the consumers of the business areas cannot understand

Business Area Preferences

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When your user profile was created in AAI, you were probably assigned one or more business areas. This is a way of filtering the business areas and, therefore, the jobstreams that are displayed in your AAI instance. This applies to all relevant views in the both the tick client and the Web UI.

If necessary, you can change these filters by setting your preferences. For more information, see Setting User Preferences (Thick Client).

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