Data requirements

Vendors, applications, and components must be in the repository to have meaningful results for this business question.

• Go to the Data Source page of the business question. The Vendors data table shows existing vendors. All contact information should be kept up-to-date for a vendor.
• The vendor providing a component can be manually specified in the component's content area. Go to Overview > Basic Data > Vendor field.

  You can add components and vendors manually or you can import components with their vendor information based on IT products from IT-Pedia®. Click to find out how to import components and their vendors from IT-Pedia

• The applications that use components should be specified. The applications that use a component are specified in the context of the platform definition of each application. Click for information about how to document an application's platform..