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Key Features of Hierarchy Manager

Hierarchy Manager provides an organizational console for mapping the department and personnel structures of a business customer's entire enterprise. The Web browser interface minimizes training and maximizes productivity. Hierarchy Manager enables authorized users within a business-to-business (B2B) organization to quickly model personnel and departments and grant appropriate access at each level of the structure. Hierarchy Manager saves organizational data and structures in an extremely efficient format for rapid searches and queries across a hierarchy.

Hierarchy Manager provides user access control. It also provides a mechanism to glue together data into a tree structure. When you define a hierarchy structure, you can navigate and run reports based on that structure.

Key features of Hierarchy Manager include:

• Robust and generic organizational modeling
• Unlimited levels in a hierarchy
• Hierarchy-based Access Control (HBAC)
• Works with Object Management Framework (OMF) to allow any type of business object being linked into Hierarchy Manager
• Multiple hierarchies with associated type value
• Versioned hierarchy structure changes
• Advanced searching and filtering on multiple criteria
• Importing and exporting of data and hierarchy structures
• Supports analytic reporting
• Works with Extract Transform Loading (ETL) Process
• Public APIs to allow additional customization
• Provides an extension framework to support custom behaviors
• Support for configurable hierarchy type with rules
• Provides a framework for OLTP and OLAP data synchronization
• Provides flexible transaction management under the Spring framework
• Provides a default Hierarchy Manager UI
• Object Management Framework (OMF) Features and Services
• OMF provides a set of generic interfaces and functions for handling business object creation, registration, lookup and resolution of universal resource identification for any kind of business objects. OMF also provides a reusable catalog of business objects that are used by Hierarchy Manager. The generic OMF interfaces allows Hierarchy Manager to link, remove, find and search objects linked into Hierarchy Manager in a uniform way, without having to know the specific type of business objects.