The profile allows you to view and enter the organization, person, or contact's profile details. You can switch between the person and contact profile.
If you change attributes that are common to both the person and the contact, the change is not reflected in both cases. For example, you have Joe as a person and the same Joe as the contact for Vision Corporation. If you change the address for Joe, you do not update the address for Joe in his contact role for Vision.
Note: The person and contact name is always the same. If you change Joe as a person to Joseph, you also get Joseph as the new contact name for all of Joe's contact roles.
For contacts only, you can enter purposes for the contact relationship. For example, Joe can be a contact for Vision's billing and shipping purposes.
Note: Additional attributes are available if your administrator has set up extended custom attributes.
Other Sources
Maintaining Parties, Oracle Customer Data Librarian User Guide.