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Capture your company's business strategies.The Strategy Validation capability is available to users with the extension package Strategic Portfolio Management. The Investment Architecture section of the navigation panel includes the new section Strategy Network. The strategy hierarchy includes Visions, Goals, Objectives, and Strategic Themes. Data workbenches and content areas are available to capture and analyze data for these assets. The visualization of the strategy network is available at all levels as well as reports about the impact to the architecture.

Capture project baselines to track project changes. The Baselines page has been added to the project content area to monitor deviation from the original project scope over time in terms of the total project costs, project evaluations, and achievement of project milestones.

Business question "Which demands should be realized?"The business question Which demands should be realized? is available in the Business Relationship section of the navigation panel and helps to prioritize demands. The business question includes a portfolio analysis showing the weighted scores of the demands' business value and architectural impact, and a doughnut chart displaying the distribution of demands based on on their business values.

The following is available for users with the extension package Enterprise Architecture Management.

Manage applications via ICT objects and ICT object categories.The object classes ICT Object and ICT Object Category are available in the Application Architecture section of the navigation panel. Data workbenches and content areas are available to capture and analyze data for ICT object and ICT object categories. Associate applications to an ICT object to manage the architecture on a more abstract level and analyze the application costs for all ICT objects bundled in a content-specific ICT object category.

Track targets via time series evaluations. Time series evaluations allow users to define and track the evolution of target values for specified indicator types for a specific object over time. Time series evaluations are now available in the new Time Series page in the Reference Data section available for the user profile Portfolio Admin.

The business question Where are our project dependencies? is available in the Transformation section of the navigation panel. The business question provides full transparency about project dependencies when prioritizing projects for funding and/or execution. Dependencies can be analyzed across multiple programs to foster communication before project approval.

This Kanban-like matrix report shows the programs on the Y-axis, the project status on the X-axis and the projects assigned to the programs in the cells of the matrix based on their current status. The projects are colored based on their average RAG Status (Red, Amber, Green) which is derived from the project monitoring indicators for time, budget and resource. Project dependencies are visualized by connecting lines between the projects.

The business question can be accessed by users with the base package IT Transformation Server - Enterprise.

Alfabet now supports modeling business processes using the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). The BPMN Diagram view is available in the Diagrams page in the business process content area. The view provides access to the diagram designer where users can add a pool with lanes and create or add existing business processes and tasks in the context of the diagram as well as specify events, sequence flows, and message flows. The BPMN Diagram view can be accessed by users with the base package IT Transformation Server - Enterprise.

Users can navigate to a content area for operational business supports via the business question What is our target architecture? as well as via the Business Support Matrix view available in the content repository for the business capability, organization, application, demand, and project content areas. .

The content area for operational business supports displays the basic data about an operational business support including the application, organization, and business capability that is supported as well as the possibility to specify responsibilities for the business support.