Data requirements

Applications must be in the repository and well-documented. Applications that do not have the required business and technical scores are not evaluated and thus not included in the portfolio chart. Click for information about documenting applications. The following application data is required for this business question:

• Start Date attribute
• Recommendation attribute
• Architecture Type attribute
• Development Type attribute
• Number of Users indicator. Click for details about how to evaluate the application's indicators.
• Cost information. Click for details about how to specify the cost type values for the application's operational costs
• Responsibilities definitions for Business Owner and IT Owner Click for details to define the users and organizations that have a role for the application.
• Using Organizations definition. Click for details about how to specify the organizations that use the application.

Business capabilities must be in the repository. The following data is required:

• Business Relevance attribute
• Providing Applications reference. Click for details about how to specify the applications that provide a business capability.

Information flows must be in the repository. The following data is required:

• Object State attribute
• Source and target applications. Click for details about how to specify the source and targets of information flows.
• Local components based on standard components. The Object State and End Date attributes must be specified for standard component.

Check the completeness of your data. Go to the Data Quality page and resolve all issues to ensure that your data source is reliable and that you will have meaningful results for this business question. These issues should be resolved to generate accurate business and technical scores for the applications. Click to understand more about improving your data quality.

Understand the data set used for the business question. Go to the Data Source page and review the applications used to generate the results for the business question. For each application, review the accuracy of the data displayed and navigate to its content area to make necessary changes. Click for information about documenting applications.