NIM's Role Modeling feature allows you to create business roles to help manage entitlements. An example of entitlement is an Active Directory security group or distribution group. Roles are typically based on filtered information such as job title, building location, etc. In addition to role management, NIM supports role mining and role generation. Role mining is where you analyze your current group configuration across all your systems and display commonalities. For example, the job titles "marketing assistant" and "marketing supervisor" are members of the same five marketing groups. Role generation is where you use role mining information to generate roles. For example, one role for marketing includes two job titles, "marketing assistant" and "marketing supervisor"; the entitlements are five groups.