Exploring the business architecture

The Business Architecture section within the Portfolio page of the Enterprise Architecture Workspace helps you in the structuring of your business functions and strategies.

• Exploring business units
  Business units are part of your organization that are responsible for certain operations and have their own objectives.
• Exploring departments
  Departments are specialized functional areas within an organization, having their own specified roles and objectives. Departments are subsets of business units.
• Exploring goals
  Goals are important for aligning and optimizing investments in business applications and for driving strategic outcomes.
• Exploring value streams
  In Enterprise Architecture, a value stream represents an end-to-end sequence of activities that delivers value in your enterprise architecture landscape. A value stream is made up of individual value stream stages, each of which represents a discrete step in that sequence.
• Exploring value stream stages
  Value stream stages are a specific section within the overall value stream, encompassing a specific set of activities.
• Exploring business capabilities
  A business capability is the ability of an organization to do its business activities successfully and fulfill its business goals.
• Exploring business processes
  Business processes model how your organization performs work to achieve a business outcome. Use business processes in Enterprise Architecture Workspace to build a process hierarchy and to associate processes with supporting business applications.
• Exploring demands
  You can use a demand as a step to identify cost-saving opportunities on applications or capabilities and to meet the target.

Related concepts

• Using business architecture