Data analysis with business questions

Alfabet FastLane 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. Out-of-the-box business questions use portfolio data as input to answer some of the most important questions for effective portfolio planning and decision-making for your organization. The business questions allow you to assess your IT portfolio from multiple perspectives. Each business question visualizes answers about the as-is state of your application and technology portfolios and help you to understand the most critical aspects of your IT portfolio.

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:

• The Analysis page visualizes the business question. Click the Filter   button to slice-and-dice your data 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.