Creating Business Policies

Business policies are globally-defined set of enterprise-level principles. They enable you to maintain business standards across your organization. You can create business policies in new or existing catalogs. For more information about catalogs, refer to the Creating Catalogs topic.

To create business policies, follow these steps:

1. In the browser pane, click Business Policies.
   The Glossary Workspace switches to the business policies view.
2. In Glossary Workspace, under the Business Policies node, right-click a catalog node.
   
3. Click Add Business Policy.
   The New Business Policy page appears.
   
4. Enter Business Policy name and Definition. Fields marked with a red asterisk are mandatory.

For example:

• Business Policy - Change of Address
• Definition - This policy documents the rules for change of customer's address.
  
5. Click .
   A business policy is created and added to the catalog.

Once the business policy has been added, you can enrich it further by:

• Defining associations
• Setting up additional information
• Attaching rich media
• Setting up collaborations
• Viewing workflow logs

You can manage a business policy using the options available in the Options column in the business policy row. Managing business policy involves:

• Viewing, editing, or deleting business policies
• Viewing mind maps
• Viewing history