Alfabet FastLane provides answers to the most important business-relevant questions in order to help you know where to focus change efforts to execute your company's strategy.

Business questions are out-of-the-box visualizations that provide answers about the as-is state of your application and technology portfolios. Each business question includes analytics that provide answers to your most critical issues as well as views that allow you to maintain the relevant data.

Business questions are available in the left navigation panel below Business Questions. The following tabs are available for a business question:

• Analysis: Visualize the analytics for the business question.
• Data Source: Display one or more data workbenches to display the data used in the business questions. You can capture new data, update missing information, or change inaccurate data in the data workbenches.
• Data Quality: Display an overview of data quality issues found for the data source that the analysis is based on. If the data quality analysis warns about inaccurate data, the analysis for the business question is not reliable. To fix the data quality issues, open the Pending Data Quality Fixes per Rule view and click the links in the Resolution column. This will open the editor or view where the data quality issue can be fixed.

You can filter the data displayed in the Analysis, Data Quality, and Data Source views. Filtering in one of the views will not change the content of the other views.

To filter data in a business question's data source or data quality view: Set filters as described in the section Decide which data you want to see.

To filter data in a business question's analysis view, click the Filter Settings    icon to open the filter panel. Which filter fields are available depends on the configuration of the business question. Filters can be of the following types:

• Global Filters

  Global filters are shared by multiple business questions. If you define a global filter in one business question, it will also be applied to all other business questions it applies to until you actively re-set it in any of the business questions sharing the filter. In the filter panel, click Update to apply changes to global filters.

• Report Filters

  Report-specific filters are only defined for a single business question. Once set, the filter will be applied to the business question whenever you access it until you actively re-set it.

• Column Filters

  If the business question is visualized as as data workbench, you can filter the data by defining conditions that shall apply to a row in the dataset. The filter conditions will already be set in the filter panel if you use the filter options in the row header of the data workbench before opening the filter panel.

  Define a condition

  1. Click + > Add Condition. You will see the default query searching within the first column of the table.
  2. Click the first field of the query and select the table column to query.
  3. Click Contains and select the search operator.
  4. Click <enter a value> and enter the value to query in the text field.

  Change the operator combining the conditions

  Click the And button and select a search operator.

  Add new operators combining a sub-set of conditions

  Some search conditions require the definition of more than one operator combining the conditions. For example, if you would like to search for results of the object state restricted to "Active" and the object name either starting with "A" or with "B", you need an AND operator to combine the searches in the two columns and an OR operator to combine the search for object names starting with "A" or with "B". For this purpose, operators can be added which are only applied to a group of conditions defined beneath them.

  1. Click + > Add Group.
  2. Click the And button of the new group and select a search operator.
  3. Use + > Add Condition to add as many conditions as you would like to combine with the operator.

  Remove a filter element

  To remove a condition or an operator grouping conditions from the filter, click the X on the left of the condition or operator.

  Clear the complete filter

  To remove all settings from the filter specification, close the filter definition panel. The filter is displayed at the bottom of the tabular dataset of the report. Click Clear on right of the filter section.

  Deactivate the filter

  To keep the filter settings but do not apply them to the dataset, close the filter definition panel. The filter is displayed at the bottom of the tabular dataset of the report. Deselect the checkbox on the left of the filter section. You can re-activate the filter later without the need to re-define it.

  In tabular datasets, filtering is also available directly the row headers. Click the filter  icon at the top of a column. Set a checkmark for all values that you want to display. The filter button at the bottom will show all values that have been hidden via the filter settings. If a filter has already been defined for the view, the settings done in the row header are added as a AND combined condition to the existing filter.

The business questions are structured in discrete groups so that you can quickly get to the information you need.