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AI Portfolio Management is a strategic AI governance tool designed to provide visibility into the deployment and use of artificial intelligence across your enterprise and link it to IT architecture. It enables organizations to catalog the AI features of its business features and provides transparency around the authorized use of underlying models and technologies. By offering a clear view of where and how AI is applied, AI portfolio management helps stakeholders understand the impact of AI on critical business segments. Risk assessment on all levels of the AI portfolio guarantees transparency​ to prevent black-box decision-making about AI technologies. The specification of where AI can be used in the enterprise ensures regulatory and legal compliance with the AI laws in the company's different geographical regions. A dedicated approval workflow makes certain that all aspects of the AI portfolio are approved, and each AI use case is reviewed by the responsible role in terms of the AI architecture as well as legal, data privacy, and security issues.

New business questions provide a single source of truth about the AI portfolio and keep you up-to-date on the applications and components providing AI features and technologies and the risk level of the AI features, analyze the impact of changes to the AI portfolio, and assess whether AI use is aligned with business needs. Alfabet 's AI portfolio management provides a clear view of how AI initiatives influence your business, highlighting which segments of the business are most affected. It ensures your organization strikes the right balance between innovation, safeguarding data privacy, and maintaining AI compliance.

The following has been added to the user interface to support AI portfolio management:

• New data workbenches allow you to catalog the AI features used in your enterprise including the AI technologies and models that they rely on. AI features are bundled in AI use cases. A new AI Portfolio Management section is available in the left navigation panel and provides access to the data workbenches Capture AI Use Cases, Capture AI Features, Capture AI Models, and Capture AI Technologies.
• A new Has AI Features attribute has been added to the application content area. If enabled, a new AI Context page is displayed where the user can specify the AI features that the application provides. A new Has AI Models/Technologies attribute is also added to the component content area that when enabled allows the user to specify the AI models and AI features that the component provides.
• The new business question What is our AI portfolio? offers a comprehensive overview of the AI portfolio in your enterprise. Up-to-date reports provide a single source of truth about the applications and components providing AI in your enterprise. Review the overall level of risk of AI features to the enterprise as well as the approval status of your AI uses cases and AI architecture.
• The new business question What are our AI dependencies? visualizes a network diagram that helps you understand the relationships between the different parts of the AI portfolio. Review the AI use cases that are supported, the AI features included in those use cases, the AI models and AI technologies used, and the business capabilities that are affected by the AI architecture. You can perform an impact analysis on the AI portfolio from any perspective and, for example, assess the consequences to the AI portfolio if an AI feature or AI model is discontinued. This business questions helps you to understand your AI architecture to manage its complexity, avoid potential risks, and ensure compliance with AI regulations.
• The new business question Where is AI impacting business? shows a capability map to identify and manage AI-driven capabilities so that you understand the role of AI in your business landscape. Analyze which parts of the business leverage AI technology and which AI uses cases target your enterprise's business capabilities. Review the impact of the AI portfolio on the business to understand which mission-critical or market-diffentiating business capabilities are most impacted and how AI drives transformation across distinct business domains.

The business question What is our business-IT alignment? is available in the Business Relationship section of the navigation panel. The business question visualized a network diagram that helps you to understand how the business is dependent on the IT infrastructure by focusing on the relationships between business capabilities and IT capabilities. This helps to identify the most important IT capabilities and how critical business capabilities depend on particular IT capabilities.

To visualize results in the business question, one asset must be selected in the filter to generate the network diagram. The visualization shows the applications that support a business capability and the components providing support to the application and the IT capabilities they enable. Visualize aspects of the IT architecture based on various attributes to understand potential risk and the impact on your enterprise's mission-critical business capabilities. Understand the dependence of business segments on IT and identify the most important IT capabilities based on their support of critical business capabilities.

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

The business question What are our service costs? is available in the Finance section of the navigation panel. Multiple reports help identify the most costly services, breaking down information so that you understand the cost drivers, cost types, and costs per lifecycle phase for current and planned costs. What-if analyses provide insight to phasing in and phasing out services. This business question helps decision-makers understand the cost breakdown as well as analyze cost evolution over time of the enterprise's business service and support service costs.

The business question can be accessed by users with the extension package Enterprise Architecture Management. The use case Service Portfolio Management must be enabled.

A new page is available for the user profiles Portfolio Manager and Portfolio Analyst featuring visual tiles that provide quick access to the most frequently used business questions. The new page is available via Home > Business Questions and features a reduced content page that shows only the 9 most common business questions to get started with managing the IT architecture in order to facilitate a rapid entrance to portfolio management. End users can personalize the Business Questions page by adding and removing the business questions available via their license.

For enterprise customers, an additional entry point for business questions is now available through the left navigation pane via Business Questions > Business Questions Overview. This page showcases visual tiles for all business questions distributing the business questions across the content area pages Business Portfolio, Application Portfolio, Service Portfolio, Information Portfolio, Technology Portfolio, and Project Portfolio. The tiles use color highlights and text to visualize the use case category ( Transparency, Governance, Roadmapping, etc.) as well as the number of reports for the business question. Users can use all functionalities to take advantage and personalize the content area. Pages and individual business questions can be hidden and new content area pages created and shared.

A new Data Usage (CRUD) view is available in the content area of an application group. The report provides a clear, structured overview of how applications in a selected application group create, read, update, and delete business objects. The CRUD analysis serves as a health check of the application portfolio so that you understand what’s happening to your data.

A new section titled Alfabet Enterprise Use Cases has been added to the documentation start page. This section introduces methodology-driven use cases centered on capturing and analyzing data to address key business questions. Initial tiles address the use cases AI Portfolio Management and Contract Management. This section is a work in progress and will continue to evolve with additional use cases and expanded methodology coverage in future updates.