Employee
Access roles
Overview
"Access roles" allows you to select the profile access for an employee in the
PartnerWorld Profile System. In addition, you can select the TCI for System z
program business contact role and select whether self association is approved
or denied.
Please note, only the Primary Relationship Contact or Authorized Profile Administrator can update the profile access role of an employee and only one profile access role can be selected for each employee.
The access role defaults to allow employees to update their own profiles, if
no other selection is made.
The access roles for a Business Partner employee are:
Primary Relationship Contact (PRC) - The first person who creates
a location becomes the Primary Relationship Contact. There must be only one
PRC for each location.
The PRC is a required business role and also has an APA security role. If the
designated PRC leaves the company or is reassigned, another person at the location
must be assigned this role, as the PRC role is a requirement of IBM PartnerWorld.
If a PRC is missing from the profile, every APA at the location with an e-mail
address will instead receive the PartnerWorld communications targeted to the
PRC.
The PRC at the headquarters location in a Country enterprise can manage the
Country enterprise information and all location information and also manage
any other location and employees within the Country enterprise.
PRC at the headquarters location of a Worldwide enterprise can manage any Country enterprise within the Worldwide enterprise.
Authorized Profile Administrator (APA) - is a security role for
an individual who has administrative update authority. An APA can update any
information in the profile, give other employees access and approve contact
self-associations. Only the APA can update the profile access role of an employee.
Please be sure to assign an APA authorization/role only to employees who are
authorized to modify profiles. An APA is required to perform on-going maintenance
to the company's location information.
An APA can grant other employees access to the entitled PartnerWorld Web site
and also, access to update the PartnerWorld Profiling System (PPS).
Distributor contact - This is provided to an IBM distributor to
view a summary of contract compliance certifications for authorized hardware
products, without viewing sensitive information about individual employees or
the company. Only the Tier 2 Business Partners may authorize the distributor
to have this access role. This access role is only applicable to North America.
Distributor contact with employee personal information access -
Only applies to North America for IBM Business Partners for which contract compliance is required. Enables the IBM distributors to assist and manage the Tier 2 Business Partners contract compliance. Only Tier 2 Business Partners may authorize the distributor
to have this access role.
Personal information update only - This allows employees to update
only their own personal profile information.
View only profile access - This gives users the ability to update
their personal profile information and view limited information within the company
profile.
No selection made - This is the default when no selection is made.
Only the employee's personal information will be updated. This is the
same as selecting Personal information update only.
Navigation
To select the profile access for an employee:
- Choose an access role from the drop down box shown beside "Profile Access"
- "Save"
- You will be taken to a confirmation page and given a confirmation number
- Please retain the confirmation number for all future inquiries on the transaction
To select the Business Contact or Secondary Business Contact for TCI for System
z Program role:
- Click on the appropriate box
- "Save"
- You will be taken to a confirmation page and given a confirmation number
- Please retain the confirmation number for all future inquiries on the transaction
If self association is not set to automatically accept employees who associate
themselves to a location, using the company token:
- Select self association for the employee
- Choose either "approved" or "denied" from the drop
down box
- "Save"
- You will be taken to a confirmation page and given a confirmation number
- Please retain the confirmation number for all future inquiries on the transaction
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