Business stakeholder role for Enterprise Architecture (formerly APM)
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Summary of Business stakeholder role for Enterprise Architecture (formerly APM)
The Business Stakeholder role in Enterprise Architecture (EA) enables users to review and approve reports and dashboards with read-only access to key data tables. This role is intended for business stakeholders who need to view and approve information but do not require full administrative privileges. It is provided through thecom.snc.businessstakeholderplugin and is linked to the Enterprise Architecture application.
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Upgrade and Activation Details
- Upgrading customers: The Business Stakeholder role is available only when the Read only roles for Enterprise Architecture (com.snc.apmreadroles) plugin is activated.
- New customers: The read-only roles plugin activates automatically on zBoot, but the Business Stakeholder role requires installation of the Enterprise Architecture plugin.
Role Purpose and Licensing
The Business Stakeholder role offers a read-only alternative to the licensable Analyst (snapm.apmanalyst) role, which provides full dashboard access and administrative capabilities. Since the Analyst role is subscription-based and typically limited in number, the Business Stakeholder role allows broader user access to review and approve reports without incurring additional licensing costs.
Access and Functionality
- Users with the Business Stakeholder role can view and approve reports and dashboards, including Application Landscape, Application 360, and Application Assessments dashboards.
- This role provides read-only access to all underlying tables that feed data into these dashboards.
- Custom dashboards and reports can also be shared with Business Stakeholder users by configuring sharing settings.
Sharing Dashboards and Widgets
To share dashboards or individual widgets with Business Stakeholder users, navigate to the Enterprise Architecture dashboard, use the widget editing and sharing options, and add the businessstakeholder role in the sharing settings. This enables controlled, read-only visibility tailored to business stakeholder needs.
Accessible Tables
Users with the Business Stakeholder role have read-only access to key Enterprise Architecture tables that support dashboard data, including but not limited to:
- Business Application (cmdbcibusinessapp)
- Business Capability (cmdbcibusinesscapability)
- CMDB Relationship (cmdbrelci)
- CI Score, Indicator Score, Indicators (apmappscore, apmappindicatorscore, apmmetric)
- Fiscal Year (fiscalperiod)
- Business Process (cmdbcibusinessprocess)
- Application Family, Category, and Groups (apmapplicationfamily, apmapplicationcategory, apmapplicationcategorygroup)
- Scoring Profiles (apmapplicationprofile)
- Portfolio (pmportfolio)
This access ensures stakeholders see comprehensive data relevant to their review and approval tasks.
For Enterprise Architecture users, Business Stakeholder (com.snc.business_stakeholder) plugin contains the business stakeholder role for Enterprise Architecture. Users with this role can approve, view or read records of tables that are used to retrieve data for reports and dashboards. Customers can assign this role to any user who is a business stakeholder to review and approve reports.
Upgrade information
- Upgrade customer
- If you are upgrading to Xanadu, the business stakeholder role for Enterprise Architecture is available only when you activate Read only roles for Enterprise Architecture (com.snc.apm_read_roles) plugin.
- New customer
- If new customer, the Read only roles for Enterprise Architecture (com.snc.apm_read_roles) plugin is activated on zBoot. However, the business stakeholder role for Enterprise Architecture is available only when you install Enterprise Architecture plugin.
Why business stakeholder read-only role
Analyst (sn_apm.apm_analyst) role in Enterprise Architecture is a licensable role that requires subscription. Users with this role can access all Enterprise Architecture PA dashboards and this role contains Enterprise Architecture administrator role who has different levels of access not only to read but to approve and update information data. Organizations procure this licensable role in limited numbers as it comes with a price. Business stakeholder role comes with a similar function but access is controlled at read-only level. Users with this role can access reports to review and approve only.
Share dashboards with business stakeholder read-only users
Enterprise Architecture users with Business stakeholder role for Enterprise Architecture (sn_apm.apm_read) role have read-only access to dashboards and reports and all the underlying tables of the dashboards.
The base system provides access to users with this role to view Application Landscape, Application 360, and Application Assessments dashboards. You can also access all the tables from where the data are retrieved for these dashboard reports.
However, you can also configure your custom-created dashboards and reports to provide users with business stakeholder role. To provide read-only access to a business stakeholder, follow the steps in Share a responsive dashboard
Share widgets in dashboards with business stakeholders
- Navigate to
- Click the add widgets icon (
). - Click the edit content icon (
) of the widget that you want to share. - Click the sharing icon (
). - Click the Share option in the Sharing section.
- Search for business_stakeholder in the search field and click to add the role in the Sharing settings window.
- Click OK.
Enterprise Architecture tables accessible to users with business stakeholders role
Users with Business stakeholder role for Enterprise Architecture can access the following tables that store the data to load the widgets in the Enterprise Architecture dashboards:
| Label | Table name |
|---|---|
| Business Application | cmdb_ci_business_app |
| Business Capability | cmdb_ci_business_capability |
| CMDB Relationship | cmdb_rel_ci |
| CI Score | apm_app_score |
| Indicator Score | apm_app_indicator_score |
| Indicators | apm_metric |
| Fiscal Year | fiscal_period |
| Business Process | cmdb_ci_business_process |
| Application Family | apm_application_family |
| Application Category | apm_application_category |
| Application Category Groups | apm_application_category_group |
| Scoring Profiles | apm_application_profile |
| Portfolio | pm_portfolio |