This feature helps organizations with multiple legal entities and multinational, distributed operations simplify how they participate in the data space.
With this feature, one active legal entity can centrally support and manage other legal entities. This streamlines onboarding and allows supported company data to be maintained by a central data space participant.
What is this feature for?
This feature is designed for organizations that operate with more than one legal entity and want a simpler, more centralized participation model.
Instead of onboarding and maintaining each legal entity independently, one central legal entity can manage supported company data for related legal entities within the same organization.
This is especially useful for organizations that:
operate across multiple countries
have subsidiaries or regional legal entities
want to reduce administrative effort
need a cleaner structure than representing different legal entities only as sites under one company
Participation roles
This feature introduces two roles:
Managing Participant
A managing participant is an already active legal entity in the data space.
It can:
be selected by other legal entities during onboarding
review incoming management requests
accept or decline requests
centrally maintain supported company information for managed entities
Only the role "Company admin" can view the Managing companies under "Your company".
Managed Partner
A managed partner is a legal entity that joins the data space under a managing participant instead of completing the full standard participation path independently.
This provides a lighter onboarding model.
Managed partners:
do not receive their own portal access
do not need their own wallet
do not need their own EDC
What is managed centrally
Once the relationship is established, the managing participant can centrally maintain supported company information for the managed entity.
This includes:
creating and maintaining sites (BPNS)
creating and maintaining addresses (BPNA)
The BPNL is created automatically and cannot be edited.
Key benefits
This feature can help organizations:
streamline onboarding for related legal entities
centralize company data maintenance
reduce operational and administrative effort
represent company structures more accurately
For managed partners, this model also provides:
no onboarding costs
no portal access required
no wallet creation required
no separate EDC required
automatic creation of the BPNL
site provisioning through the managing participant
Important note
Currently, a managed relationship cannot be ended directly in the portal.
If a company no longer wants to be managed, or if a managing participant no longer wants to manage a company, this cannot currently be cancelled through self-service. In such cases, please contact us [email protected].
Begin your Onboarding
Before using this feature, confirm:
which legal entity will act as the managing participant
which legal entities should be onboarded under that participant
whether centralized maintenance fits your internal operating model
To begin your setup, please proceed to the guide below:
For questions, contact [email protected]