This article requires basic knowledge in Ardoq about how to create workspaces with components, fields, and references. For guidance on these topics please visit Ardoq Fundamentals.

One of the key benefits of Ardoq is the ability to answer business questions in an efficient manner. The business questions could be of many sorts:

Finding the business questions that you want to solve is a very crucial step to succeed with Ardoq. If you don´t know what business questions are important to answer, it is very likely that Ardoq will become a playground with no significant value. In addition, defining the business questions up-front is important to avoid "scope creep." For the rest of this article, we will illustrate how we would model particular business questions in Ardoq.

These business questions are fairly common among our customers. The first question spans across the business (capabilities) and IT (applications). The second question provides an overview of the application landscape with two key parameters, cost, and ownership.

In Ardoq you would set up two workspaces, applications and capabilities.

For this example, we use a flat model in both workspaces.

To answer the questions we would need one field in the capability workspace.

In the application workspace, we add two fields.

Regarding references we would only need one type, going from capabilities to applications.

With this setup, we can add data on our components and start creating references.

Now we have everything we need to answer and visualize our questions in presentations, dashboards, and surveys.