Information portfolio governance provides the framework for understanding how data flows through your application landscape and how it supports core business capabilities. Understand the architecture dependencies created by information exchanges between applications. This visibility helps identify integration points, potential bottlenecks, and areas where failure could disrupt downstream systems or business processes. Assess the impact of application and server outages on business capabilities to strengthen resilience planning. Document where sensitive data is used, stored, and transferred to ensure compliance with data protection regulations and to mitigate security rislks. By managing your information portfolio with precision, you gain control over data integrity, operational continuity, and strategic alignment between IT and business.
What you can do
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Manage technology standards by assessing information dependencies with the business question What are our architectural dependencies? |
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The business question Where do we use sensitive data? helps you to identify inconsistencies and redundancies in the way data is used in the IT landscape and identify potential risks you to your company's sensitive data. |
Prerequisites
To work with Alfabet's business questions focusing on information portfolio analysis, you must have a license to IT Transformation Server - Enterprise. The use case Information Portfolio Governance and either the use case Basic Data Management or Advanced Data Management must be activated. This use case specification enables the following business questions:
- What are our architecture dependencies?
- Where do we use sensitive data?