Describing Fulfillment of a Business Capability
This involves connecting the business capability, which corresponds to what we know how to do or what we want to do, to a way of achieving that which is represented by:
• logical applications or logical application systems, for example, at a conceptual level, that is upstream of organizational and technical choices.
A logical application system is an assembly of other application architectures, logical applications and end users, interacting with application components to implement one or several functions.
• applications or application systems, for example, at a technical level.
For example, constructing the business capability map on the one hand and the logical application system environment on the other hand, you can check that the business capabilities are implemented by the logical applications.
Conceptual representations are made before organizational and technical choices.
Creating Fulfillment of a Business capability
A business capability can be implemented either by an application or application system, or at a conceptual level, by a logical application or logical application system.
To associate an application with a business capability, you must create a business capability fulfillment.
A business capability implementation is the physical agent (e.g. an Application System) or the logical agent (e.g. a Business Function) that implements the capability.
To specify that a business capability is fulfilled by an existing application:
1. Open the Fulfillments property page of the business capability that interests you.
2. Click New.
The creation window for a business capability implementation opens.
3. Check the Add a component and connect a type box and select the type Application.
4. In the applications list that appears, select the application you wish to connect and click OK.
The capability realization appears in the list with the name of the selected application.
Analyzing enterprise capability implementation
Hopex IT Architecture provides reports to display realization coverage of business capability elements by operational elements such as applications, and according to different perspectives: Organizational, Business/Data, Logical/Physical Application, etc.