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Organizational Breakdown Structures

The PPM Essentials Accelerator includes organizational breakdown structures (OBS) that can be a starting point and expand them to suit your business needs.

The OBS structures allow you to:

• Filter information in the portlets for reporting purposes.
• Restrict user access to different areas of the product using access groups with different privileges.

The following organizational breakdown structures are included:

• Organization OBS. Allows you to group the business units within your organization and contains the following levels:
  • All Lines of Business
  • Line of Business (Internal Initiatives and Product Management)
• Resource OBS. Allows you to group resources for reporting purposes and contains the following levels:
  • All Employees
  • Employee Groups (Administration, Engineering, Quality Assurance, Sales and Marketing, Services)

See the Administration Guide for more information.