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title: Manage business roles
description: Define responsibilities and reporting hierarchies for business roles in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace.
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topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-08-01"
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keywords: [business roles, business actors, Enterprise Architecture Workspace, reporting hierarchy]
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# Manage business roles

Define responsibilities and reporting hierarchies for business roles in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace.

From the Portfolio List view, you can:

-   View all business roles
-   Add or edit a business role
-   Add a business actor to a business role
-   Create a business actor from a business role record
-   Remove a business actor from a business role

-   **[View all business roles](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-view-all-business-roles.md)**  
View all available business roles to understand organizational structure and role relationships in Enterprise Architecture Workspace.
-   **[Add or edit a business role](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-add-or-edit-a-business-role.md)**  
Create or edit a business role to define the responsibilities, rights, and duties associated with performing specific business behavior.
-   **[Add a business actor to a business role](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-add-business-actor-to-business-role.md)**  
Add existing business actors to a business role to identify who fulfills the role, or create a business actor directly from the business role record.
-   **[Remove business actors from a business roles](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-remove-business-actor-from-business-role.md)**  
You can remove the business actors associated with a business role in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace.

**Parent Topic:**[Using business architecture](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-using-business-architecture.md)