The business question What is our landscape? provides insights to the business capabilities and the applications that provide functional support to the business capabilities. The visualization represents a functional decomposition of your application landscape that provides insight to the organizations and the business capabilities they execute. It allows you to visualize application KPIs and color rules for rapid analysis to understand the current application landscape and plan your IT portfolio roadmap.
business capability
A business capability is a high-level description of what is done in a company to meet its business objectives. Market development, product development, and support and services are examples of business capabilities.
organization
An organization describes an administrative or functional unit in the enterprise.
The visualization shows the top two levels of business capabilities in the business capability hierarchy and the current and planned application support. For each nested business capability, you can understand which applications currently support that business capability. Applications that provide support to a lower-level business capability are aggregated up to the second-level business capability.
To understand how different organizations provide applications that support business capabilities:
Select an organization in the Business Owner filter field. Review the business capabilities and the applications that support them. Change the business owner to understand differences in organizational support in the landscape.
To understand the technical obsolescence of a business capability:
Select Technical Obsolescence in the Color Rule filter to highlight the risks to the business capability based on technical obsolescence.
Recommendation: Identify which business capability are at risk due to applications that use a component that has reached the end of its planned lifecycle. To understand the issue, navigate to the object profile for application, go to Technology Portfolio and open the Component Lifecycles view. Review the components that have an end date before the application's end date and consider whether the components shall be updated or whether the unsupported application should be replaced by a different application.
To understand how the landscape changes over time for the most important business capabilities:
Enter a date in the future in the Active Date filter field to understand which applications will be obsolete in the future and select Business Relevance in the color rule field to understand the business capabilities that are most critical for the business.
Recommendation: Analyze how your landscape changes over time and understand where risks will occur to critical business capabilities due to potential gaps in application support.
To understand potential replacement candidates for applications:
Understand which business capabilities have a significant number of applications supporting them. Select Strategic Applications in the Color Rule filter field to understand the applications that are most critical for the business.
Recommendation: Identify which business capabilities are at risk due to applications that use a component that has reached the end of its planned lifecycle. To understand the issue, navigate to the object profile for application, go to Technology Portfolio and open the Component Lifecycles view. Review the components that have an end date before the application's end date and consider whether the components shall be updated or whether the unsupported application should be replaced by a different application.