A system-wide policy is enforced for all organizations. For example, if you create a system-wide policy that executes when an asset is created, CentraSite will enforce the policy whenever any user in any organization adds an asset to the catalog.

To create a system-wide policy, you must belong to a role that has Manage System-Wide Design/Change-Time Policies permission. In a standard CentraSite configuration, only users in the CentraSite Administrator role and the Policy Administrator role have this permission.

System-wide policies are useful for managing many types of objects. For example, they are often used to assign users to certain server-wide groups or to enforce server-wide naming conventions on objects. However, organization-specific policies are often better choices for asset-related policies, because they enable an organization to tailor its policies to its own development processes and methodologies.