An organization is a high-level container for the assets and other objects that make up a CentraSite registry. Any object that is not an organization must belong to an organization. You use organizations to partition your registry into autonomous collections of assets that you can administer independently. You can use organizations to arrange your registry around functional lines of business, regional subsidiaries, branches, legal entities, departments, and B2B partners (example, suppliers and customers.)

By default, only users within an organization have permission to view the organization's assets. If other users require access to the organization's assets, they must obtain explicit permission. Organizations enable you to restrict the visibility of a collection of assets to a specified group of users.

Organizations also act as a scoping mechanism for the following registry functions:

For example, organization administrators can create lifecycle models and design or change time policies that apply only to the assets that belong to their organization.

An organization also represents a specific group of users within the registry. This quality allows you to apply many permissions and capabilities collectively to all users in an organization.