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Add a business capability to a business application

You can add existing business capabilities to business applications in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace, to ensure better alignment with your strategic enterprise architecture goals.

Before you begin

Role required: sn_apm.apm_user

Procedure

  1. Navigate to Workspaces > Enterprise Architecture Workspace.

  2. Open the Portfolio List view by selecting the Portfolio icon (

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Portfolio icon\).
  1. Select the expand row icon (
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Expand Row icon\) next to **Application Portfolio**.
  1. Select Business Applications.

  2. Select the business application that you want to add existing business capabilities to.

  3. Select Business capabilities.

  4. Select Add.

  5. In the Add business capabilities window, add the relevant business capabilities or particular sub capabilities.

OptionsSteps
Add parent business capabilities to the business application

In the Available items box, select the check box next to a business capability to select the business capability along with all its sub capabilities. The selected capabilities are added to the Selected items box.

You can select multiple parent capabilities.

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Selected business capabilities that are to be added to the business application.</p></td></tr><tr><td id="d101820e183"><strong>Add specific sub capabilities to the business application</strong></td><td><ol>
  • In the Available items box, select the open item icon (
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    Expand Row icon) next to a business capability.</li>
  • In the sub capabilities box, select the check box next to the sub capability that you want to the business application.
  • You can again select the open item icon (

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    Expand Row icon) next to a sub capability to view more sub capabilities that are lower in the business capability hierarchy.[Omitted image "business-sub-capability-added-to-ba.png"] Alt text: Selected subcapabilities that are to be added to the business application.</p></td></tr></tbody>
    1. Select Save.

    Parent Topic:Working with an application portfolio

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