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Key Features of Hierarchy Manager

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

• Robust and generic organizational modeling
• Unlimited levels in the 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
• Working with ETL Process
• Public APIs to allow additional customization
• Extension framework to support custom behaviors
• Support configurable hierarchy type with rules
• Provides 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 you to handle business object creation, registration, lookup and resolving universal resource identification for any kind of business objects. It 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 that might be linked into Hierarchy Manager in an uniform way without having to know the specific type of business objects.