Centennial Software Ltd.

Data Hierarchy Levels

To achieve report results that meet your company's needs, the Web Control Center reflects the Organizational Units set up in the Centennial Discovery® Web Edition repository. The Centennial Discovery® Web Edition repository combines information from various sites throughout your organization (if you have more than one site). The Web Control Center uses this information to provide a global view of your company's assets. The data hierarchy allows you to segment the information collected by the Centennial Discovery® Web Edition so that the Web Control Center users only see the asset information that is relevant to them.

Organizational Units are used to divide the information in the Repository in any way that helps you analyze that information by reflecting your company's corporate structure. For example, some corporations may be organized by region, country, and site. Other companies may be organized by business function, division, and building.

For example, an Organizational Unit can be a company division such as Marketing, a cost center or a workgroup. Organizational Units can be sub-divided into smaller Organizational Units, for example, a Sales group working on a particular project.

Alternatively, you may have several offices worldwide - London, New York, Milan, Paris, and Tokyo - you would like to see what kind of software the Marketing departments in London are using. To get the results you are looking for, you would need to break down your information into the following Organizational Units:

» London, New York, Milan, Paris, Tokyo

However, if you want to find out what kind of software the Marketing departments in Europe are using, you would need to include additional Organizational Units above those (called parent Organizational Units) to get those results.

» North America, Europe, Asia

You may have divided each country by site names and further by function:

» London HQ, London Battersea

» Marketing, Engineering, Sales

Data doesn't necessarily have to broken down into countries, cities, and departments. It can be broken down into a variety of different categories, such as regions, states, and cities, or cities, buildings and departments. You may just as easily have only used two levels if that makes sense for your company.

Version 6.1 / 2006.11