What are business areas?

A business area is a collection of related information in the database.

The Discoverer manager works with the different departments in your organization to identify the information that each department requires from the database. The Discoverer manager locates the information in the database and groups it into business areas. Within each business area, the Discoverer manager organizes information into folders.

For example, the key areas of a company's business might be sales, production, and human resources. So the Discoverer manager might create three corresponding business areas.

Figure 2-3 Three Discoverer business areas

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The Discoverer manager also decides which users can access which business areas.

The figure below shows how business areas are displayed in Discoverer Plus Relational. The business areas in this example are called Video Store Tutorial, and NewBusinessArea1.

Figure 2-4 Business areas in Discoverer

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