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Business Units

The organizational structure controls access to various data. The business unit is a branch in the organizational structure. A business unit can represent the following:

• A service provider (the highest level or root business unit)
• An external client company, if the service provider provides services to external customers
• An internal corporate department or group within a department

A business unit administrator can perform the following tasks:

• Access the catalog published by the business unit
• Subscribe accounts to services
• Perform other administrative duties for the business unit and its child business units

The following rules apply when you create your business unit structure:

• Business units can have child business units
• Users can have roles in more than one business unit
• Business units can have one or more accounts
• Each account can have many users
• Each user can have many accounts
• Each user who has an account can be billed to that account
• When you request a service, the parent business unit of your business unit defines the catalog that you see
• When you subscribe an account to a service, the parent business unit defines the catalog that you access