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Business Rule Enforcement
Business Rules Enforcement refers to custom notifications and validations in the
Unanet system. This may include things such as timesheets, expense reports, manager
approval screens, budgets, and more. Technically, Business Rules Enforcement is the
definition of what the rules are and how you want to enforce them, while Validation
Stored Procedures (VSPs) and the Automated Analyst/Integration Management Utility
(IMU) are the technical methods for enforcing these rules. Three solutions offer controls
in how you run your business:

Native Unanet functionality
Native Unanet functionality includes features that limit hours or funding that may be
charged. For example, assignments can cap hours by person, and you can also limit
billing and revenue to be the funded value less fee. These examples are found in the
Project profile.

Validated Stored Procedures (VSP)

Custom controls are available so that you can define custom rules around timesheets,
expense reports, manager approval screens, and financial documents. For example, in
the timesheet you can control that overtime charges are made appropriately, or that
there is a minimum number of hours in the timesheet per period. Examples of VSPs on
financial documents include enforcing that at least one document is attached when
submitting a financial document or requiring that the proper account type is used.

Automated Analyst/Integration Management Utility (IMU)
This custom tool allows you to focus on data awareness, analysis, and integrity. The
‘automated analyst’ is a set of queries that run against your database. Typically, the
analyst is configured to run through Unanet’s IMU; however, it could be configured in a
variety of ways. The queries can be customized to your specific business needs and the
IMU will either send an email with the information about what data was found or it can
update the database with the correct information.

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