In CentraSite, there are two concepts of ownership. A target belongs to a particular user (known as the target's owner) and it also belongs to a particular organization. The owner of a target has special access rights to the target and serves as the target's main point of contact. The target's organization determines whose rules of governance apply to the target. Consequently, when you change a target's organizational ownership, you are in effect placing the target under the governance of a different organization.

The organization to which a target belongs is shown in the Organization attribute on the Target's Details page.

A target's Organization attribute is specified when a user adds the target to the CentraSite.

After a target is created, it is sometimes necessary to change its organization. For example, you might need to transfer ownership of a target to another organization when you want to delete the organization to which the target belongs and when multiple services are deployed to the target. When you want to delete an organization, for example, you might want to transfer the target with multiple deployed services to another organization.