Business Admin Responsibilities

Overview of the Business Administrator's capabilities and duties.

Table of Contents

1. What is a Business?
2. What functions are available to the Business Administrator on the platform?
3. What roles can a Business Administrator perform?

What is a Business?

A Business is an entity that owns and publishes APIs. A business generally includes multiple APIs, Developers, and Apps. The platform represents the Business.

Business Visibility

A Business can be defined as having public or private search visibility. The visibility setting determine whether the business appears in search results and whether users can see summary information for the Business, as described below.

Content Type	Description
Public	The Business can be seen in a search by any user in the community.
Private	The Business can only be seen in a search by: Users who have been invited by a Business Admin and who have accepted the invitation. Users who are part of a connected Business (invited by a Business Admin and the invitation accepted)

Feed & Detail View

• Only users with an explicit Connection to a Business will be able to view the details of this Business.
• Users that have an explicit Connection to the Business will see entries from the Business’s Board in their home Feed.
• Users that do not want to see these entries in their Feed can choose to hide them via their Feed configuration.

Business Connections

Any of the above Connections can be configured to be:

• Automated—Connection Requests will be automatically approved with no workflow (no approval required).
• Approved—Connection Requests require administrator approval.

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What functions are available to the Business Administrator on the platform?

When you log in as the Business Administrator, the following functions are available to you on the Administration menu:

• Business Adm.—Manage business administrators on the platform, including inviting and removing business administrators.
• Actions—Export and import platform resource information.
• Scopes—Create and manage scopes, a key component of licenses.
• Licenses—Define licenses that can be used by APIs to define what's offered to app developers.
• Workflows—Manage custom and default workflows for platform resources such as tickets and API contracts. Business admins can upload, modify, and delete custom workflows.

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What roles can a Business Administrator perform?

A Business Administrator has Full Control to manage the following platform objects:

• Business (i.e., Platform)
• API
• API version
• App
• App version
• Group

Privileges for platform objects are managed in the Policy Manager instance where the Tenant is installed. The Full Control privilege supports the following actions:

Action	Description
Add	Create a new object
Read	Read an object
Monitor	Monitor an object
Modify	Modify an object
Delete	Delete an object

Note: Site Administrators have some of the same privileges as a Business Administrator. For example, a Site Administrator can invite another user to be a Business Administrator. However, Site Administrators do not have other rights of a Business Administrator, such as privileges to add, edit, or delete apps and APIs in the business. For more information, see What are the differences between Site Admin and Business Admin roles?

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