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For customers of large groups where you have multiple configurations across different BUs I am wondering if you have any best practices to share around creating new attributes vs sharing attributes between BUs.

We have a few BUs that we know we want to do reporting on across the BUs so we are requiring some standard shared data elements.  But there are other BUs that are very much stand alone. We are wondering with new configurations being created, do we just have all the new attributes be specific to that BU’s implementation?

Interested in any other customer is struggling with this issue.

We’ve helped many of our customers with establishing architectural principles and change control and governance processes to ensure that different business units can all use a single Portfolios instance and reconcile an element of BU specific autonomy alongside the value of being able to consolidate data, report and collaborate across business units. Fundamental is an approach like this to designing the solution:

 


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