Ideal Ways of Designing business areas

Hello All
Can any one tell what are the ideal ways of designing business areas.Like what are the thumb rules companies generally follow when they are designing business areas.If we can directly club the tables according to our functional modules or prepare a views out of them.Please suggest any good documents if there are available
Cheers
Sudheer

Hi,
Business areas are really just a groups of folders to which you can assign privileges. Therefore your main drivers for designing the BAs are which users need to see what folders and how the users want their folders to be grouped when they build their workbooks. So, you would probably want to create a hidden BA that would contain folders that should not be used in workbooks (e.g. folders used to define LOVs). The folders in this BA would be hidden from most users. You would also want to create BAs along functional lines, so that when a user is building a workbook all the folders are conveniently located in one BA.
However, there is another related question, what folders should you create in the EUL? Here I think there are some rules of thumb you can follow:
1. A simple folder should be unique for each table/view. So don't ever create 2 folders mapping to the same table or view.
2. Avoid custom folders like the plague.
3. Complex folders should only be used if your joins are not too complex. If you need lots or complex joins in your reports then create database views and map them to simple folders.
Hope that helps,
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