Business Footprint Diagram: Mapping Business Goals, Organizational Units, Functions, Services, and Technical Components
The Business Footprint Diagram illustrates the relationships among business goals, organizational units, functions, services, and the technical components that deliver them, providing clear traceability for stakeholders while also offering links to community resources and further architectural references.
The Business Footprint Diagram describes the connections between business goals, organizational units, business functions, and services, and maps these functions to the technical components that provide the required capabilities.
The diagram offers clear traceability between technical components and the business objectives they satisfy, while also demonstrating ownership of the identified services.
It presents only the key facts that link organizational unit functions to delivered services, serving as a communication platform for senior (CxO) stakeholders; it must focus on current business interests and can be tailored to one or multiple application components or business functions as needed.
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