The IT Governance Applications support organizations to align IT architecture and strategy with business goals to ensure that the right technology will be in place to support the organization as it moves forward. IT Governance Applications are part of an organizational IT governance framework, to enable the identification of needs and interests of stakeholders, measure IT results and understand the return on investment that the organization is making in its business architecture. IT Governance Applications provide a platform: * To understand the existing IT landscape. * To align systems with business goals. * To gain insight into IT and application architecture with a real-time picture of the enterprise architecture landscape, including all applications, the technologies they run on and the business processes they support. * To gain insight into how changes to the enterprise architecture will impact business and IT. * To increase consistency and enhance transparency of the enterprise architecture landscape with other repositories for business, IT services and Service Assets. * To establish a foundation for IT transformation.