Ideally your company hasdocumented its business services . Business services and should already be in the repository in order to define the businss services that an organization provides. Some business questions in Alfabet can only be answered if the relationships between services and organizations are defined.

The license package Enterprise Architecture Management is required to work with business services. The use case Service Portfolio Management must be activated.

Organizations provide business services that can then be consumed by other organizations.

Specify the business services that the organization provides:

  1. Go to the organization's content area > Service Context > Providing Business Services. The data workbench displays all business services that the organization provides.
  2. Click the New plus sign button > Assign Business Services Provided by Organization.
  3. Select the business service that the organization provides and click OK.
  4. The business service is added to the dataset. You can specify whether the business service is strategic for the company via the Strategic Service column.

For an overview of how all how organizations provide business services and consume business services, see the business question Who are our service providers and consumers?