Management of business capability
Business capability is the ability of an organization to do its business activities successfully and fulfill its business goals. Use the business capability mapping to establish a CI relationship between the business capability and the business applications. Establish a similar relationship between business capabilities and the application technologies to ascertain the risks involved in using them.
Starting with the Xanadu release, the legacy business capability module has been deprecated from Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management). However, if you’re an existing user of Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management), you can still use the legacy business capability module. If you’re a new activation user, the legacy business capability module isn’t available.
You can leverage the same features by using the Enterprise Architecture Workspace. To learn more, see Exploring business capabilities.
As business organizations grow, it’s imperative for an enterprise architect to constantly assess the business capabilities to know how to strengthen the business processes. Business capabilities are the abilities required to support a business process. They are assessed by indicators to provide indicator scores.
The indicator framework is enhanced to support assessment of business capabilities in addition to supporting business applications. Capture business capability as a CI type for which the score is generated.
Use the following capability assessments set of application menus to configure assessment. Access the scores for business capability, in a similar manner that you access and assess the scores of business applications:
- Create and assess CI Score for a fiscal period: .
- Create and update indicator scores: .
- Create a scoring profile and associate it with a business capability CI: .
- Create an indicator and configure the data source: .
If the data source is of Assessments type, then you can generate survey assessments for the business capabilities in the Indicator form by selecting the Generate Assessments button. Apply filter conditions to the business capability table and select the users in the Generate Assessment UI. You can view the status of assessments instances in the Assessments Instances tab and the results in the Metric Category Results tab. See: Generate survey assessments and view results within Enterprise Architecture.
- Access business process capability map: .