Business Areas

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Business Areas (BAs) are organizational categories that reflect the structure of your business. Jobstreams are assigned to BAs. BAs are assigned to users. This means that in addition to organizing processes logically as needed in your business, BAs give you easy access to the data you need for your daily work. BAs 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 BAs and then you assign jobstreams to those BAs. A Jobstream can be assigned to more than one BA. In a fresh installation, AAI has a predefined BA called All Jobstreams. You can create as many BA sub levels as you need.

This video explains Business Areas and their properties:

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Purpose

BAs have the following purposes:

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

  • Filter data per BA everywhere in AAI. By filtering jobstreams by BAs, 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.

    Dashboard

    The Dashboard view provides aggregates for each group in your organization by collecting data totals for each business area. For more information, see Dashboard Tab.

    Monitoring

    The Monitoring view can report on thousands of processes. Users can filter the data by BAs so that they can focus on certain areas and then drill down into the individual jobstreams. For more information, see Monitoring.

    Analysis

    The Analysis view can also contain thousands of jobstreams. Filtering them by business areas makes it much easier to find the jobstreams you need.

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

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

  • Define processing cycles (time frames in which batch processing for specific areas takes place). Each BA has a processing cycle, which means that the jobstream in each BA 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

We have mentioned that BAs 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 BAs 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 BAs, 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

Give BAs 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

Setting business area Preferences

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 Dashboard, Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting views. If necessary, you can change these filters by setting your preferences. For more information, see User Preferences.

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