Ideally your company has documented its application. Applications should already be in the repository in order to define the application that supports the business capability. Some business questions in Alfabet FastLane can only be answered if the relationships between applications and business capabilities are defined. application An application is a complete installation of a software offering a functionality to an end user. The application might consist of or require other technical components to run.

Applications support the company to realize its business capabilities. For each business capability, you should specify the applications that support the business capability in order to understand how the business may be at risk due to IT failure.

1. In the navigation panel, click Business Architecture > Business Capabilities to open the data workbench for business capabilities.​
2. Select the checkbox  for the business capability you want to edit and click the Edit    button to open the wizard.
3. Click the Edit button to open the wizard and select Providing Applications in the Go to Step field.
4. Click New > Associate Existing Application with Business Capability. Select the applications that provide support to the business capability and click OK. Click Next in the wizard to save your changes.

An evaluation is a measurement of the performance of an asset. Preconfigured indicator types and possibly custom indicator types added by your company are available to evaluate and are used in various analyses in Alfabet FastLane. Some indicator types are automatically computed by the system and others must be manually defined.

Update computed indicators. Click the Calculate button to update computed indicators via the Calculate button. The indicators will be recalculated based on the current. Please note that computed indicators that are calculated based on the current data.

Select an indicator type and click Edit Indicator or click Group Edit to open a dialog where all indicator types can be edited that are not automatically computed by the system.

Define the asset's indicators. To do so, navigate to the data workbench where the asset is defined:

• Click the Edit button to open the wizard and select Evaluations in the Go to Step field.
• In the data table, click the navigate  button of the asset you want to define. Click Overview and scroll to the Evaluations page and open it.

In contrast to the concept of an authorized user or authorized user group which grants read/write permissions to an object, roles which are fulfilled by people or organizations may also be specified for an object. The role definition specifies the functional relationship or responsibility that a user or organization has to an object. The specification of a role is primarily for documentation purposes and provides additional information about stakeholders interested or responsible for the object. A person assigned to have a role for an object will not have read/write permissions based on the role definition. If the user shall have read/write permissions, they must be assigned to an authorized user group specified for the object.

Alfabet FastLane provides out-of-the-box role types that enable you to understand who is responsible for your IT assets in your IT portfolio. Additional role types that are relevant for your company can also be added.

Assigning users and organizations to roles is critical to understanding responsibility for assets in the IT and is required to answer the business question Who is responsible for our assets? 

To define the users and organizations that have a role for an asset, navigate to the data workbench where the asset is defined. You can either:

• Click the Edit button to open the wizard and select Responsibilities in the Go to Step field.
• In the data table, click the navigate  button of the asset you want to define. Click Overview and scroll to the Responsibilities page and open it.

Define the users that have a role for an asset. In the toolbar, click Person to associate a user with the asset. The user can have one of the following roles or a custom role added by your company:

• Architect: A person who is responsible for the governance of the asset.
• Business Owner: A person or organization that owns the asset and is responsible for managing the functional requirements.
• IT Owner: A person or IT organization that owns the asset and thus typically responsible for approval decisions.
• Stakeholder: A person or organization that has an interest in the asset and therefore requires read-only access permissions.

In the selector, find the user to assign the role to and click OK.

Define the organizations that have a role for an asset. In the toolbar, click Organization to associate an organization with the asset. The user can have one of the following roles or a custom role added by your company:

• Business Owner: A person or organization that owns the asset and is responsible for managing the functional requirements.
• IT Owner: A person or IT organization that owns the asset and thus typically responsible for approval decisions.
• Operations: An IT organization responsible for the operations of the asset.
• Stakeholder: A person or organization that has an interest in the asset and therefore requires read-only access permissions.

In the selector, find the organization to assign the role to and click OK.

A generic attribute is a custom attribute that allows the ad-hoc capture of information for an asset. An administrator user may have already created predefined custom attributes that are relevant for an object class. The preconfigured generic attribute can be added to an asset (object) of the respective object class. For example, the generic attribute Rationalization Status could be configured to capture whether an application is in the scope of rationalization activities. Thus it would be assigned to the class Application with a default value set to False. As an authorized user of an application, you can add this attribute to your application and change the value if you want to.

You may also create your own generic attributes for an asset you are working with. You can also copy generic attributes created for other assets of the same class as the one you are working with and change the value.

in the context of the Generic Attributes view for the object.

To define a generic attribute for an asset, navigate to the data workbench where the asset is defined. In the data table, click the navigate  button of the asset you want to define. Click Overview and scroll to the Generic Attributes page and open it.

Add a preconfigured generic attribute to the asset. Click New > Add Generic Attributes from Class Configuration. Change the default value in the Value field as needed. The values that may be specified will depend on the type of property defined in the Type field.

Create a new generic attribute for the asset. Click New > Create New Generic Attribute. Define the following fields and click OK:

• Name: Enter a name that is easy for other users to understand.
• Type: Select the type of property that the generic attribute is. The field will display standard property types and enumerations. If you select an enumeration, the enumeration values will be displayed in the Value field.
• Value: Specify the attribute value for the selected object class. The values that may be specified will depend on the type of property defined in the Type field. Other users might copy this attribute. The value you define will be the default value but they will be able to change it for their asset.

Copy an existing generic attribute from an asset based on the same object class. Click New > Copy Existing Generic Attributes. In the selector, select the assets that have the generic attributes you want to copy to your asset and click OK. You can change the value as needed.