A business object (BO in short) is a logical unit of functionality and data that refers to a facility management concept, For example, work order, request, budget type, etc.

In Planon, there are two type of BOs, system BO and user-defined BO (UDBO). A system BO offers standard sets of fields and statuses to work with. An UDBO on the other hand, is highly customizable. You can create your own fields, actions, statuses and status transitions. Still, a UDBO is always based on a system BO. For example, you can create the user-defined business objects Customer and Supplier, based on the Personnel business object.

BOs are managed in Field definer. The system BOs and UDBOs are distinguished here. Each BO or UDBO has its own set of fields and statuses. Fields contain data. For a BO, you can create any number of UDBOs.

You can authorize a business object to restrict users from using the BO. Authorizing a BO provides a means to determine if or in what way users can access data (no access, read access, read-write access) and what actions can be performed .