# Business Units

> How CapaInstaller Business Units let you manage individual customers, departments, or locations separately within a single Console.

Source: https://docs.capaone.com/capainstaller/the-capainstaller-console/system-administration/what-is-system-administration/business-units/  
Product: CapaInstaller — a separate CapaSystems product; do not apply this page to any other.

CapaInstaller[^®] 5.1 introduces a new way to manage your ever-expanding installation. Individual customers, departments, locations or other logical entities in your organization can now be managed separately in a single Business Unit in the CapaInstaller Console. Focus your attention on the task at hand and optimize your workflows! Enterprise customers and Partners offering CapaInstaller as a service to their customers will now use the same workflows and enjoy uniform support with the new integrated Business Units in our solution.

## Bullets on Business Unit entity

- A Unit can be linked to none or one Business Unit.
- A Package can be linked-to none, one or more Business Units.
- An MDM Profile can be linked-to none, one or more Business Units.
- A Group can be linked-to none or one Business Unit
- A Configuration Management view that has a relation to a Business Unit is limit to the specific Business Unit
- Business Units can be selected as Static Criteria in reporting, giving the power to limit a report or query to a specific Business Unit.
- Business Units can be used to report licenses in the same way as Department Groups has been used earlier

## Bullets on the usage of the Business Unit entity

- Configuration Management: Child nodes of a Business Unit is loaded on expanding of the Business Unit node
- Dynamic groups linked to a Business Unit will only be populated with units linked to the business unit
- Dynamic groups not linked to a Business Unit has no limits on unit membership.