What is our business-IT alignment?
The business question What is our business-IT alignment? helps you to understand the relationships between business capabilities and IT capabilities. This business question illuminates the dependence of business on IT and helps you to identify the most important IT capabilities based on their support of critical business capabilities.
Review the network diagram to understand 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 in order to understand potential risk and the impact on your enterprise's mission-critical business capabilities.
The license package IT Transformation - Enterprise is required to work with this business question.
Use the method that is most convenient for you:
- In the left navigation panel, enter What is our business-IT alignment? 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 business-IT alignment?
- In the left navigation panel, expand the sections Business Questions and Business Relationship and click What is our business-IT alignment?
A filter setting is mandatory for this business question. Click the 
local filter button and select specify either the Business Capability, Application, Component, or IT Capability fields.
The Business Capabilities and IT Capabilities report visualizes a network diagram showing the connections between the business capabilities, applications, components, and IT capabilities. Here's how to interpret the information:
- Business capabilities
are on the left with a connection to the applications that support them. - The applications
are in the center and point to the components that the applications use. - The components
have connections to the IT capabilities 
they support, which are on the right. - Applications may be highlighted with color based on a color rule specified in the local filter button > Application Color Rule field.
- Components may be highlighted with color based on a color rule specified in the local filter button > Component Color Rule field.
- Click the
3-dots button > Show Legend to understand the color coding.
Click the 3-dots button > Change Layout to open the diagram designer and move the items, change the look , and save the updated layout of the network diagram.