Terminology Used with Multiple Companies

The DPS online help and user interface use standard terms to describe the multiple company environment.

Related Topics:

  • Enterprise
    The enterprise is the umbrella under which multiple companies operate. You can think of the enterprise as the parent company. Settings at the enterprise level support cross-company transactions and reporting.
  • Company
    The company is the highest level of the organization structure below the enterprise level. Each company is a separate legal entity and sets its own business rules.
  • Active Company
    The company that you select at login, or when you switch to a different company, is the active company. The active company is also known as the current company.
  • Employee Home Company
    When you track multiple companies in DPS, you use the Home Company field in the Summary pane of the Employees hub to assign an employee to a home company.
  • Initial Company
    When you first enable the Multicompany application, DPS converts your existing database to support multiple companies and creates the initial company.
Parent Topic: Multiple Companies