The business question How will IT failure impact our business? provides a high-level end-to-end view of your IT technology landscape. This offers insight to which business capabilities will fail due to an IT outage. The diagram highlights the susceptibility of locations and servers as well as the applications and the business capabilities that are at risk.
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.
location
A location is a geographic place that could be a country, city, building, or room, for example.
physical server
A physical server is a device that deploys applications and components. Virtual servers may run on physical servers that are located in different locations around the world.
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.