What data is required for Who are our vendors?

The business question Who are our vendors? relies on data captured for vendors, components, applications, business capabilities, and IT capabilities. The following data is required in order to have meaningful results:

• Component > Vendor attribute: Specify the vendor that supplies the component for detailed vendor management.
• Component lifecycle: Specify to understand dependencies between end-of-life technologies.
• Component > Using applications: Specify to identify the technological dependencies between applications and components.
• Application > Provided business capabilities: Specify to understand how the application supports the business capabilities.
• Business Capability > Business Relevance attribute: Specify how relevant the business capability is for the enterprise.

Go to the Data Quality page and resolve the issues to ensure that the data is complete.

Go to the Data Source page to review the applications, business capabilities, components, vendors, and IT capabilities that are used to answer the business question. The data source is a list report and cannot be edited.