The Portfolio Manager user profile is for users who are responsible to input, maintain, and analyze data relevant for IT portfolio management. You can view all assets in the repository and you can edit any assets that you have authorized access to as authorized user or member of an authorized user group
authorized user
An authorized user has primary responsibility to maintain the data for an object. Typically this is the user that has created the object. The authorized user as well as members of authorized user groups have write permissions to objects they are responsible for.
authorized user group
An authorized user group is a set of users that have been granted write permissions to an object. More than one authorized user group may be specified for an object.
The user profile Portfolio Manager has Write permissions for all permissible classes available via your license packages and the use cases your company has enabled. All relevant business questions are available to you so that you can understand the most critical aspects of your IT portfolio.
business question
A business question provides business-relevant information about the IT portfolio in the form of graphic analytics. "Who is responsible for our assets?", "What are our investment/retirement candidates?", and "How will IT failure impact our business?" are examples of business questions.
Permissions available to the Portfolio Manager
With the Portfolio Manager user profile, you can work with the IT assets (based on object classes) and business questions that you have access to via your license packages and the use cases your company has enabled. A user with the Portfolio Manager user profile has the following permissions:
Permissions to create new IT assets like applications , business capabilities , and components . You can specify all relevant information about the IT assets you add to the repository including their basic data, responsible roles , lifecycle and relevant relationships.
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.
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.
component
A standard component is a reusable block of functionality that provides technical functionality to an application or to the platforms that an application runs on. Components do not usually provide functionality to end users. Typical components are operating systems, database management systems, or application servers. A component that is used in an application's platform is a local component and is not is reusable.
role
A role describes the functional relationship that a user or organization has for an object.
lifecycle
The lifecycle describes the planned schedule of a current real-world object in different lifecycle phases of a product. Lifecycle phases will be different depending on the object class. Lifecycle phases for an application are Pilot, Production, Retired, and Sunset.
Permissions to edit IT assets that you are the authorized user of or associated with via an authorized user group that you are a member of.
authorized user
An authorized user has primary responsibility to maintain the data for an object. Typically this is the user that has created the object. The authorized user as well as members of authorized user groups have write permissions to objects they are responsible for.
user group
A user group determines the visibility of objects. One or more user groups may be granted authorized access to an object. The object is visible to all users assigned to a specified user group.
Read-only permissions for IT assets that you do not have authorized access to.