Capture organization data
An organization describes an administrative or functional unit in the enterprise such as business units, divisions, regions and countries. An organization is not typically a legal entity but rather a business-driven governance structure to document roles and responsibilities and track roll-out plans. Organizations are supported in their business activities through the business support provided by applications.
Organizations form a self-referential hierarchy. An organizational hierarchy of 3 levels is sufficient for analysis in Alfabet FastLane.
Organizations are structured in a hierarchy. Before you begin, you should think about how you want to document the hierarchy of organizations.
In the navigation panel, click Business Architecture > Organizations to open the explorer for organizations.
Add an organization at the top-level of the hierarchy. Click the Organizations node and click the New button. The edit panel opens on the right where you can define basic data..
Add a subordinate organization. Click the parent organization in the explorer, go to the Overview tab and open the Subordinate Organizations view. Click New > Create New Organization.
Change the parent of an organization. In the Subordinate Organizations view, click New > Move Existing Organization Here to open a selector where you can chose the organization to move to the new parent organization.
Edit an organization. Select the checkbox 
for the organization you want to edit and click the Edit 
button. The edit panel opens on the right where you can define basic data.
Define the organization's basic data. Define the following fields and click Next to save your data. All mandatory fields must be defined to create the organization and save it.
- Name: (Mandatory) Enter a name for the organization. You can add an abbreviation (3-4 letters) of the name in the Short Name field to use in diagrams and other visualizations.
- Short Name: (Recommended) Enter a short name of 3-4 letters that can be used for the description in diagrams and other visualizations.
- Contact: (Recommended) Specify a person who is the contact person in the organization. The contact person must be a user in Alfabet FastLane.
- Organization Type: (Recommended) Specify whether the organization is internal or external to your company.
- Organization Scope: (Recommended) If you have selected External for the Organization Type attribute, specify whether the external organization is a solution partner, reseller partner, service provider, or technology provider.
- Authorized Access tab: The user who creates the organization is the authorized user per default. This can be changed. Select one or more authorized user groups that shall have write permissions to the object. All users in the authorized user group can edit the organization.
Ideally your company has documented its application. Applications should already be in the repository in order to define the applications that an organization uses. Some business questions in Alfabet FastLane can only be answered if the relationships between applications and organizations are defined.
Organizations are supported in their business activities by the business support provided by applications. For each application, you should specify the organization that uses it in order to understand the operational support in the company.
- In the navigation panel, click Application Architecture > Applications to open the data workbench for applications.
- In the data table, click the navigate
button of the application you want to define. Click Business Portfolio and scroll to the Organizations Using Applications page and open it - Click New > Add Organizations Using Application. Select the applications that are used by the organization and click OK.