Data analysis with business questions

Alfabet provides answers to the most important business-relevant questions in order to help you know where to focus change efforts to execute your company's strategy. Data quality analysis of the data source provides insight about the reliability of the data used to analyze the business question and lets you easily correct the data quality issues on the spot. Your analytics will rapidly become more meaningful and accurate so that you can make better decisions about your IT portfolio. The following pages are available for every business question:

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The Analysis page visualizes the business question. You can set filters to slice-and-dice the data in the business questions according to your needs. Click the three vertical dots button and click Show Legend for information about the colors and indicators in the business question.
The Data Source page displays one or more data workbenches to understand the data used in the business questions. You can capture new data, update missing information, or change inaccurate data directly in the data workbenches.
The Data Quality page displays an overview of data quality issues found for the data source that the analysis is based on. Every time you correct a data quality issue, you will see immediate improvement to your data source. To fix the data quality issues, open the Pending Data Quality Fixes per Rule view and click the links in the Resolution column. This will open the editor or view where the data quality issue can be fixed.

Find a business question

Business questions are visible for the Portfolio Manager, Portfolio Analyst, and Portfolio Administrator user profiles. To find a business question, use the method that is most convenient for you:

Go to a business question in the start page. In the left navigation panel, click Home. In the content area, go to the Business Questions page and click a business question tile.

Expand a business question group in the left navigation panel. In the left navigation panel, go to the Business Questions section and expand a business question group such as Governance or Transparency.

Search for a business question in the Search Navigation field. If you know the name of a business question, you can easily navigate to it. Start to type the business question name or a word in the name in the Search Navigation field at the top of the left navigation field and select the relevant result.

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Set filters in the business question

The main view you will work with is the business question displayed in the Analysis page. The filters you set in the Analysis page will not influence the data displayed in the Data Quality and Data Source tabs. You can also set filters for each data workbench available in the Data Quality and Data Source pages.

The filters that are available for a business question in the Analysis tab will depend on the type of report used to visualize the business question.

Global Filters: Global filters are shared by multiple business questions. If you define a global filter in one business question, it will also be applied to all other business questions until you change the filter in another business question. You can set global filters via the button.

Report Filters: Report-specific filters are only defined for a single business question. To open the report filter, click the caption of the business question in the Analysis content page. Click the filter and specify filters in the Global Filters and Report Filterssections to customize the business question for your analytical needs. The report filters are applied to the business question until you actively re-set it.

Column Filters: If the business question is visualized as as data table, you can filter the data by defining conditions to apply to a row in the dataset. The filter conditions will already be set in the filter panel if you have defined filters via column headers of the data workbench. Click for details about how you can filter the data in columns.

To change the data displayed for the business question, click the Filter button to open the filter panel. Define filter criteria and click Update to update the business question.

After you set a filter, the filter button will show a green dot Filter_green to notify you that the view only shows a subset of available data.

If the view opens up empty and the filter button shows a red dot Filter_red , you must set a mandatory filter to see data in the view.