The business question Who owns which applications? provides information about the organizational ownership of applications and helps you to understand the responsibilities of business and IT organizations for application portfolio.

The best-practice recommendation is that a business owner and IT owner are documented for every application. The doughnut charts provide information about the percentage of applications that organizations own as business owners and IT owners. Applications with no or partial organization ownership are identified so that risk can be mitigated before it occurs. Well-documented asset ownership supports management of the IT portfolio and ensures that the IT is prepared for governance, risk, and compliance audits (GRC) as well as compliance with various enterprise risk management frameworks ERMF).