The business question Who are our vendors? provides an overview of your vendors and how they impact the components they provide as well as the indirect impact to the applications that use them and the business capabilities supported by those applications. The information helps you to understand which vendors support mission-critical business capabilities, which vendors support a large number of applications, and which vendors support IT capabilities or are associated with components that are no longer maintained. This enables you to understand potential risks to the technology architecture and develop a vendor strategy to decrease risk to your company's IT infrastructure.