Describing Fulfillment of a Business Capability
By 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 are made.Creating Fulfillment of a Business capability
A business capability can be achieved either by an application or application system, or at a conceptual level, by a logical application or 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 realization opens.
3. Select Reusing an existing....
4. Select the object type Application for example.
5. Select the application that interests you and click OK.
The capability realization appears in the list with the name of the selected application.
Analyzing enterprise capability implementation
HOPEX IT Architecture V2 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.
For more details on fulfillment reports for enterprise capabilities, see Breakdown map of business capabilities.