What is our data landscape?
The business question What is our data landscape? supports you to understand your data landscape according to business needs. Analyze the business objects based on their assignment to business capabilities. Understand the exposure of personal data in the data landscape by focusing on the DPIA (data protection impact assessment) classification of the data. This business question supports the enterprise to understand and mitigate potential risk by knowing which business capabilities deal with personal data and their compliance with data regulations such as GDPR.
The business question What is our data landscape? is available with the base package IT Transformation Server - Enterprise. The use case Information Portfolio Governance must be activated.
Use the method that is most convenient for you:
- In the left navigation panel, enter What is our data landscape? in the Search Navigation field.
- In the left navigation panel, click Home. In the content area, go to the Business Questions page and click the tile for What is our data landscape?
- In the left navigation panel, expand the sections Business Questions and Transparency and click What is our data landscape?
The Business Capabilities and Business Objects view is a nested matrix that shows the business capability model with information about the business objects that the business capabilities use. Here's how to interpret the information:
- Each business capability is represented by a nested box in the matrix.
- Per default, the top 2 levels of business capabilities in the business capability hierarchy are displayed.
- Each second-level business capability displays the business objects used by the second-level business capability and its subordinate business capabilities.
- Show only some business objects based on their classification regarding data protection requirements. Click the
local filter button and select the following in the Data Classification field. Possible options are: Confidential - Non-Personal Data, Confidential - Personal Data, Restricted, Unrestricted, and Unknown.
If you have the relevant access permissions, you can edit the business objects in this business question.
- To edit a single business object, double-click the business object in the matrix to open its content area.
- To open a data workbench to edit all business objects, click the
edit button > Edit Business Objects. Use the features of the data workbench to slice-and-dice your data to focus on data and do the analyses you are interested in.
Business capabilities and business objects must be in the repository and well-documented. The following data is required in order to have meaningful results:
- Business Object > Assigned business capability: Specify the business capability that governs the business object.
Go to the Data Quality page. The Data Completeness view indicates the data that is recommended for meaningful results to the business question. Scroll to the Pending Issues view to resolve the issues and to ensure that the data is complete. Only the first 5000 issues are displayed.
Go to the Data Source page to review the data that is used to answer the business question. The data source is a list report and cannot be edited.