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Assigning owners

Owner is a first-class attribute in ArcaMira, and its meaning depends on the entity's layer. Read Ownership & accountability for the why; this guide is the how.

Who owns what

Entity Set the owner to…
Application the product owner (asset-level accountable person)
Technology the product owner (platform/component owner)
Capability the business owner (accountable for the business function)

You do not set a business owner on applications directly — an application's business owner is derived from the capabilities it realises and shown read-only.

Setting an owner

On an application or technology page: click the Product owner field in the profile strip and type the name; it saves on blur/Enter.

On a capability page: click the Business owner field (under the description) and type the name.

Filling gaps quickly from Estate Health

The fastest way to clear unowned assets:

  1. Go to Estate Health (/estate-health).
  2. Open the no-owner section.
  3. Each row has an inline Assign owner… field — type a name and click Assign. The row drops off and the signal/trend counts refresh. (Editors/admins only; viewers see a read-only list.)

Seeing the payoff

Once capabilities have business owners and applications are mapped to capabilities, each application page shows a derived business owner attributed to its capabilities, e.g. "Business owner: Priya Anand (eCommerce & Digital)." And because owner is a real column, ownership reporting ("who owns our T1 estate?") becomes a straightforward query rather than a spreadsheet exercise.