Patent ID: 8893217

Claim:
A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having program instructions stored on a computer readable hardware storage device, the method comprising: defining information of a service which is to be provided to one or more users having access to a system storing the defined information; defining policies associated with the defined information to allow and deny access to selected portions of the defined information; and exposing to a user, by a computer processor, of the one or more users the selected portions of the defined information based on the defined policies allowing access to the selected portions of the defined information, wherein: the defined information comprises at least one business object; and the defined policies associated with the defined information comprise time information of the at least one business object, the time information specifying one or more time periods when the user is allowed access to the selected portions of the defined information; and wherein the exposing of the selected portions of the defined information comprises at least one of: sending, by the computer processor, the selected portions of the defined information to the user upon receipt of a request for the defined information; and manifesting, by the computer processor, during the one or more time periods, the selected portions of the defined information such that the user can directly access the selected portions of the defined information.