Use areas to classify phases, processes, activities, roles and other business model elements at a high level according to, for example, purpose, required skills, knowledge, and resources.

The area is represented visually with color coding by function. For example, all green objects are related to the Sales area.

Examples of areas are: Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Production, Support, IT, and HR.

Standard procedure

1.	Click Business process modeling.
2.	Click Areas.
3.	Click New.
4.	In the Area field, type a value.
5.	In the Reference field, type a value.
6.	In the HTML color code field, enter or select a value.
7.	Click Save.
8.	Close the page.