Document the business architecture

MM_BusinessArch 

Ensure that the assets in your business architecture are relatively complete since these create the business context in which to understand your IT. Start by laying out your company’s core business capabilities: the essential functions and competencies that keep operations running. Organize them into a capability hierarchy, showing how primary business capabilities capabilities break down into supporting ones. For each business capability, define its business relevance and link the applications that support the business capability.

Map the organizational landscape, identifying which units or departments own and use IT assets, and track which applications they rely on. Document your company's locations so that you can understand where your physical servers are located and which applications they host. This level of detail helps ensure compliance, manage risk, and maintain operational resilience. When done right, it gives you a clear line of sight from business goals to the technology that enables them.

NUMB_1 

Document your company's business capabilities. These describe the main functions and competencies about what is necessary to run the business.

Consider which business capabilities are your main business capabilities and which are their subordinate business capabilities. It is recommended that you conceptualize your business capabilities in a hierarchy with at least two levels.

Specify the business relevance of each business capability and document the applications that provide the business capability.
NUMB_2 

Document the business processes. These are the repeatable set of activities that represent work required to achieve a business objective. Specify the applications that support the business process.
NUMB_3 

Capture the organizational structure of your enterprise. Organizations may be business or IT owners of assets. Organization also use applications.
NUMB_4 

Document the locations that are relevant to your IT. It is important to know where the physical servers are running.
NUMB_5  .

Document the vendors. Vendors supply the technological components in your company. Stay up-to-date on your vendors to mitigate risk in order to understand the components they supply