Define the users and organizations that have a role for the application
In Alfabet FastLane, responsibilities are documented via the concept of roles , whereby each role is based on a preconfigured role type or a custom role type defined by your company. In contrast to an authorized user who has read/write permissions, a person assigned a role for an asset will not have read/write permissions based on the role definition. The role is primarily for documentation purposes to provide information about stakeholders interested or responsible for the asset. If the user should have read/write permissions, they must either be the authorized user of the asset or assigned to an authorized user group associated with the asset.
Alfabet FastLane provides out-of-the-box role types that enable you to understand who is responsible for your IT assets in your IT portfolio. Additional role types that are relevant for your company can also be added.
Assigning users and organizations to roles is critical to understanding responsibility for assets in the IT and is required to answer the business question Who is responsible for our assets?
To define the users and organizations that have a role for an application, click the navigate 
button of the application to open the content area. Go to the Overview page and scroll to the Responsibilities view and open it. Click in a column cell to open a selector to define a role for the application. Depending on the role column, you may be able to select a person or an organization. Switch between Person or Organization in the selector.
A person can have one of the following roles or a custom role added by your company:
- Application Manager: A person who is the subject matter expert for an application from a functional and technical point of view.
- Architect: A person who is responsible for the governance of the application.
- Business Owner: A person or organization that owns the application and is responsible for managing the functional requirements.
- IT Owner: A person or IT organization that owns the application and thus typically responsible for approval decisions.
- Stakeholder: A person or organization that has an interest in the application and therefore requires read-only access permissions.
An organization can have one of the following roles or a custom role added by your company:
- Business Owner: A person or organization that owns the application and is responsible for managing the functional requirements.
- IT Owner: A person or IT organization that owns the application and thus typically responsible for approval decisions.
- Operations: An IT organization responsible for the operations of the application.
- Stakeholder: A person or organization that has an interest in the application and therefore requires read-only access permissions.