CIO·Application & Portfolio
YesWhat is our application roadmap?
Atlas shows a roadmap timeline that lays out your initiatives and applications side by side, so you can see when each change lands and how the work is sequenced. Lifecycle moves, retirements and new rollouts appear on one shared schedule. For a CIO this turns a scattered set of plans into a single, defensible view of where the portfolio is heading.
CIO·Application & Portfolio
YesWhich apps should we invest in, and which should we retire?
Atlas plots your applications on a TIME quadrant — Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, Eliminate — scored on functional fit and technical fit. You can see at a glance which apps earn continued investment and which are candidates to divest or sunset. For a CIO this turns portfolio decisions from opinion into a defensible, evidence-based view you can take to the board.
What is our IT cost structure, and what is the budget being spent on?
Atlas breaks your IT spend into technology-business-management cost towers and categories, so you can see exactly where the money goes by tower rather than by invoice line. Each tower rolls up the underlying applications and technologies that drive the cost. For a CIO this turns a vague budget number into a defensible structure you can take into any board or finance conversation.
Are our IT investments aligned with the strategy?
Atlas shows alignment scorecards that map your IT investments and application portfolio against your stated strategic objectives, and it flags where investment and strategy have drifted apart. You see at a glance which objectives are well-supported and which are under- or over-funded. For a CIO, this turns the perennial board question into a defensible, evidence-backed view rather than a gut feeling.
CIO·Application & Portfolio
YesWhere do we have redundancy or overlap in the portfolio that we can rationalise?
Atlas runs a rationalisation analysis that surfaces redundancy and overlap across your application portfolio and flags concrete candidates to consolidate. It groups applications doing similar work so you can see where you are paying for the same capability more than once. For a CIO, this turns portfolio rationalisation from a manual audit into a standing view you can act on and defend to the board.
Which applications support our most critical capabilities?
Atlas holds a layered L1/L2/L3 business capability map and maps each capability to the applications that realise it. You can open a critical capability and see exactly which applications stand behind it, and the reverse, which capabilities an application supports. For a CIO this turns 'what would hurt most if it broke' into a concrete, evidenced list rather than a hunch.
What are our biggest risks in the IT landscape, and how do we keep it secure?
Atlas gives you the building blocks rather than a single risk score: the Landscape Graph is an interactive canvas over applications, technologies, capabilities and teams, where the edges show dependencies, interfaces, technology usage and ownership. You can filter, run a blast-radius view to see what a failure would touch, and use the time lens to spot ageing technology. For a CIO this surfaces concentration and dependency risk; you assemble the full security picture by combining it with your risk register and security tooling.
Where are we too dependent on a single vendor (lock-in / single point of failure)?
Atlas maps your dependencies as a graph and runs blast-radius analysis so you can see where many systems hang off one vendor or component. That exposes concentration risk and single points of failure before they bite. For a CIO it pinpoints exactly where lock-in or a single fragile dependency threatens continuity, so you can plan mitigation deliberately.
Is the EA initiative on track and delivering business value?
Atlas gives you a strategic initiatives portfolio that plots value against risk and links each initiative to the capabilities and applications it touches, so you can see scope and exposure in one view. It does not measure realised benefits for you, so you assemble the full track-and-value picture by combining that portfolio view with the linked capabilities and your own delivery status. For a CIO it is enough to spot which initiatives are drifting and which are genuinely moving the architecture.
Where do we risk technology obsolescence?
Atlas maps your dependencies in a graph with blast-radius and impact analysis, so you can see where ageing technology sits and what depends on it. By tracing those chains you spot the components whose obsolescence would ripple furthest through the estate. For a CTO, that turns end-of-life risk into a prioritised, impact-ranked list instead of a reactive surprise.
Which business apps are at risk because of end-of-life technology?
Atlas detects dependency and technology-obsolescence risk — end-of-life components, tech debt and single points of failure — and ties them back to the business applications that depend on them. You see which apps are exposed because they sit on technology that is ageing out. For a CTO, this turns obsolescence from a periodic spreadsheet exercise into a standing risk signal you can prioritise remediation against.
How do interfaces connect our IT landscape?
Atlas keeps an interface repository that records the data flows between applications. You can see which systems exchange data with which, and in what direction, so the wiring of the landscape is explicit rather than tribal knowledge. For a CTO this is the connective map that shows how the estate actually hangs together before you change anything in it.
What is our technology roadmap?
Atlas shows a roadmap timeline that sequences your initiatives and the technologies they affect, so you can see when each change lands. Upgrades, retirements and adoptions sit on one shared schedule rather than in scattered plans. For a CTO this gives a clear, ordered view of how the technology estate evolves over time.
How much technical debt do we have, and where do we reduce it first?
Atlas detects dependency and technology-obsolescence risk — end-of-life components, ageing technology and single points of failure — which surfaces much of the debt sitting in your landscape. For code-level debt metrics it is best to bring in a dedicated tool such as SonarQube, for which an Atlas connector exists, so those findings link back to the affected systems. For a CTO that combination gives you the building blocks: Atlas frames where the architectural debt and obsolescence sit, and the connector enriches it with code detail to prioritise what to fix first.
Which capabilities should we build, buy or partner on?
Atlas captures these choices as Architecture Decision Records with a draft-to-accepted lifecycle and links to the capabilities and applications each decision affects. It gives you the structure to record and defend a build/buy/partner call, but it does not make the call for you — you assemble the recommendation from the capability picture and bring it into the decision record. For a CTO it means the reasoning behind each sourcing decision is captured and traceable, not lost in a slide deck.
Which emerging technologies should we be preparing for?
Atlas gives you the building blocks: its AI use-case registry inventories the AI systems already in or entering your estate, which is the clearest near-term signal of where emerging technology is landing for you. You assemble a forward view by reading that inventory against your roadmap rather than expecting a market trend feed. For a CTO, it grounds the horizon-scanning conversation in your own adoption reality, though broader tech-radar work happens outside this register.
Will the infrastructure be able to scale and perform under load?
Atlas does not measure live performance or load behaviour — that is best handled in an observability tool like Datadog, for which an Atlas connector exists. What Atlas offers is the TIME quadrant, scoring applications on functional and technical fit to guide invest-versus-divest decisions, which tells you whether a system is worth scaling in the first place. For a CTO, Atlas frames the architectural fit question and links to the runtime evidence, rather than producing the load numbers itself.
Best handled in: Datadog / observability (Atlas-connector findes)
How are our applications deployed on the underlying infrastructure?
Atlas gives you an interactive landscape graph over applications, technologies, capabilities and teams, with edges for dependencies, interfaces, technology usage, capability realisation and ownership, plus filters, blast-radius and a TIME lens. The application-to-technology layer is visible there, but live deployment topology from your cloud is brought in through an infrastructure or IaC sync connector rather than discovered by Atlas itself. For a CTO this means the architectural view is native and the real-time deployment detail arrives via the connector.
CFO / Finance·Cost & Financials
YesWhat is our IT spend per vendor?
Atlas tracks cost per application and technology, including licence and run cost, set against budgets. Because spend is attached to the same records as vendor and ownership, you can roll it up to see what each supplier is costing you. For a CFO this gives a clear, sourced view of vendor spend without stitching together separate finance exports.
CFO / Finance·Cost & Financials
YesWhat is our IT spend per business capability?
Atlas breaks IT spend into TBM cost towers and categories, following the technology-business-management model. Tied to your capability map, this lets you see where the money actually goes across the business. For a CFO it converts a flat IT budget into a capability-level view that supports real conversations about value and trade-offs.
CFO / Finance·Cost & Financials
PartialWhat budget is planned per project/initiative?
Atlas tracks cost per application and technology, including licence and run cost as well as budgets, so the spend tied to your systems is structured and visible. It is organised around applications and technologies rather than projects, so per-initiative budget is something you assemble by reading those costs against the initiatives they support. For a CFO it gives a credible cost base to attach to each piece of work rather than a guess.
CFO / Finance·Cost & Financials
PartialWhat is the total cost of ownership for our key services?
Atlas gives you the building blocks: its TBM towers break IT spend into technology-business-management cost towers and categories, so you can see where the money goes by type of cost. You assemble a service-level TCO by combining those towers with the per-application licence and run costs Atlas tracks. For a CFO, it gets you to a structured, traceable cost picture, though a fully service-mapped TCO still takes some assembly from the underlying cost data.
CFO / Finance·Cost & Financials
PartialWhat business value do we get back per technology investment?
Atlas tracks cost per application and technology — licence and run cost against budgets — so you can see clearly what each investment costs. It gives you the spend side cleanly, but the value side you assemble by reading those costs alongside the capabilities and strategic objectives each application supports. For a CFO, this is the honest basis for a value-per-investment conversation: precise cost, set against where that money is meant to deliver.
CFO / Finance·Cost & Financials
PartialWhat is this problem costing us today, and what is the payback from fixing it?
Atlas tracks license and run cost per application and technology against budgets, so the 'what is it costing today' side of the case is grounded in real numbers. The payback side is something you frame from that cost baseline against the change you are proposing rather than a built-in ROI calculator. For a CFO this means the current spend is evidenced and ready, and you build the payback narrative on top of trustworthy cost data.
CFO / Finance·Cost & Financials
PartialWhat is the ROI and expected saving on this spend?
Atlas gives you the cost side directly: licence and run cost per application and technology, tracked against budgets, which is the baseline any saving is measured from. It does not calculate ROI as a finished figure, so you combine that cost baseline with the expected benefit or consolidation target to arrive at the return. For a CFO this means the spend evidence is solid and traceable, while the ROI case is one you build on top of it.
CFO / Finance·Cost & Financials
YesWhere can we rationalise IT spend (overlap between tools)?
Atlas tracks cost per application and technology — licence and run cost against budgets — alongside what each tool actually does in the landscape. That makes overlapping tools and redundant spend visible, so candidates for consolidation stand out. For a CFO it turns vague suspicions of duplication into a concrete shortlist of where to rationalise.
CISO / Security·Security
YesAre we complying with our defined security rules and standards?
Atlas holds a controls library mapped to frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001, so you can see which controls are defined and how they map to your systems. That gives you a structured view of where you meet your own security standards and where gaps remain. For a CISO it replaces scattered spreadsheets with one place to track control coverage against the frameworks that matter.
CISO / Security·Security
YesWhich applications hold sensitive data?
Atlas maintains a Record of Processing Activities that shows where sensitive and personal data lives and is processed across your application landscape. You can see which applications hold which categories of data and how that data is handled. For a CISO this is the direct line of sight from a data-protection concern to the concrete systems carrying the risk.
How does sensitive data move through the landscape?
Atlas holds an interface repository that records the data flows between your applications, so you can follow how information passes from system to system. By tracing those interfaces you can see the paths sensitive data takes across the landscape rather than guessing at integration diagrams. For a CISO, that makes data-in-motion visible and reviewable — the basis for spotting unexpected or risky flows.
CISO / Security·Security
PartialWhich apps and users are exposed to this new vulnerability?
Atlas does not scan for vulnerabilities itself — that is best handled in a dedicated tool like Snyk or Vanta, for which an Atlas connector exists. What Atlas adds is the interactive Landscape Graph: once you know the affected technology, you can trace its dependencies, interfaces and team ownership to see the blast radius across apps, capabilities and the teams who own them. For a CISO, this turns a vulnerability finding into a mapped impact picture so you know who to mobilise.
CISO / Security·Security
GuidedWhat is exposed to the internet, who owns it, and should it exist at all?
Atlas does not scan your internet-facing attack surface; live exposure discovery is best handled in a dedicated attack-surface scanner such as Wiz. What Atlas contributes is the core EA register: for each application it holds the owner, vendor, lifecycle stage, criticality and TIME disposition, so the 'who owns it and should it exist' half of the question is answered. For a CISO the practical pattern is to pull exposure findings from the scanner and link them to the owned, governed inventory in Atlas to decide what to retire.
Best handled in: Attack-surface scanner (Wiz o.l.)
CISO / Security·Security
PartialWhere is the evidence that critical assets are secure (patch and vulnerability status)?
Atlas does not natively scan for vulnerabilities or patch levels; that live status is best handled in dedicated tooling such as Snyk or Vanta, for which an Atlas connector exists. What Atlas does give you is a controls library mapped to frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001, so you can show which controls apply to which assets. For a CISO this means you keep the scanning evidence in the security tool and link it to the architectural picture in Atlas, rather than duplicating it.
Which systems are revenue- or regulatory-critical, so we prioritise their protection?
Atlas gives you a compliance posture dashboard that ties systems to the frameworks and regulations they fall under, including DORA and other regulatory drivers. Combined with criticality on each application, this surfaces which systems carry the heaviest regulatory and business weight. For a CISO it lets you concentrate protection and assurance effort where the consequences of failure are greatest.
CISO / Security·Security
YesWhich security controls are embedded in the architecture?
Atlas holds a controls library mapped to frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001, so you can see which controls exist and how they relate to your architecture. That gives you the embedded control set rather than a separate, disconnected spreadsheet. For a CISO it means control coverage is read in the same place as the systems it protects.
DPO / Compliance·Compliance & Privacy
YesWho is responsible for processing personal data, and in which applications?
Atlas maintains a Record of Processing Activities (ROPA) that shows where sensitive and personal data lives and is processed, tied back to the applications and the owners accountable for them. You get a clear view of which system holds which processing and who is responsible for it. For a DPO, that turns the accountability question into a maintained register rather than a yearly spreadsheet hunt.
DPO / Compliance·Compliance & Privacy
YesWhich apps process regulated data, and which department uses them?
Atlas maintains a Record of Processing Activities (ROPA) that shows where sensitive and personal data lives and is processed, tied to the applications handling it and the departments that use them. You get one place to see regulated data, its host application and the owning part of the organisation. For a DPO, this makes the processing landscape directly auditable instead of reconstructed from spreadsheets each time.
DPO / Compliance·Compliance & Privacy
PartialCan we trace a regulated data element from capability to application to database for audit?
Atlas gives you a privacy home that brings DPIA, DSAR, ROPA and data transfers together, which anchors where regulated processing happens. Combined with the capability map and the application register you can follow a data element from capability into the applications that process it; the trace down to the specific database is partial and assembled rather than a single click. For a DPO this means you can build a defensible audit chain from the building blocks, while the deepest physical link is where you complete it manually.
DPO / Compliance·Compliance & Privacy
YesHow do we demonstrate GDPR compliance through our models?
Atlas maintains a Record of Processing Activities that shows where personal and sensitive data lives and where it is processed across your systems. Because it is tied to your application and data model, the ROPA reflects the real landscape rather than a standalone spreadsheet. For a DPO this gives you a defensible, model-backed account of processing you can put in front of an auditor or regulator.
DPO / Compliance·Compliance & Privacy
YesWhich systems and controls map to which regulations (GDPR, DORA, NIS2)?
Atlas brings privacy and regulatory work together in one place — DPIAs, DSARs, ROPA and data transfers — so you can see how systems and controls line up against the rules that apply. That gives you a clear map from regulation to the records and controls that satisfy it. For a DPO or compliance lead it turns a fragmented obligation into a single, auditable view across GDPR, DORA and NIS2.
DPO / Compliance·Compliance & Privacy
PartialWhich reporting processes and data do we use for regulators?
Atlas gives you a privacy home that pulls together DPIA, DSAR, ROPA and data-transfer records in one place, which covers the core of what regulators ask to see. It is not a complete regulatory-reporting engine, so you assemble the full reporting story from those privacy building blocks plus your own process documentation. For a DPO it means the evidence regulators most often request already sits in one structured view.
DPO / Compliance·Compliance & Privacy
YesWhat processing purposes, data categories and retention periods do we have per system?
Atlas captures this in its Record of Processing Activities, recording processing purposes, data categories and retention alongside where personal data lives and is processed per system. You get the Article 30 fields maintained against the live application register rather than in a detached document. For a DPO, it means the ROPA reflects the actual estate and stays answerable when a regulator asks.
DPO / Compliance·Compliance & Privacy
YesCan we handle a DSAR across systems?
Atlas supports data subject access requests with a dedicated DSAR view, working from the same processing records that map personal data to the applications and systems holding it. That lets you scope a request across systems rather than chasing each one separately. For a DPO, this means a subject request can be answered against a known map of where the data actually sits.
DPO / Compliance·Compliance & Privacy
YesWhere do international data transfers happen, and are they covered?
Atlas has a dedicated international data transfers view that records where data moves across borders and whether each transfer is covered. You see the transfers in one place rather than scattered across spreadsheets and contracts. For a DPO this turns the recurring 'are our transfers in order' question into a single, auditable register you can act on.
Chief Data Officer·Data
YesWhere does our customer and sensitive data live across systems?
Atlas has a privacy home covering DPIAs, DSARs, ROPA and transfers, which shows where personal and sensitive data resides and moves across your systems. It ties that data picture to the applications and processes that actually handle it. For a chief data officer this gives one authoritative view of where sensitive data lives, instead of reconstructing it from each system separately.
Chief Data Officer·Data
YesWhat is the lineage of this data, from origin to transformation?
Atlas tracks data lineage, so you can follow a dataset from its origin through the transformations it passes along the way. That gives you a traceable path showing where data comes from and how it changes. For a chief data officer it makes provenance and trust in data demonstrable rather than assumed.
Chief Data Officer·Data
YesWhich apps create, read or depend on each key data object?
Atlas organises your data into domains and a catalogue, so each key data object is described and connected to the applications around it. You can see which systems sit against each domain and trace the relationships between them. For a chief data officer it replaces tribal knowledge about who touches what data with a structured, navigable model.
Chief Data Officer·Data
PartialIs sensitive data sufficiently protected and consistent across the estate?
Atlas gives you the building blocks: the privacy home brings together DPIA, DSAR, ROPA and transfers, so you can see where sensitive data lives and how it is governed across the estate. You assemble the protection-and-consistency view from those records rather than from a single control panel. For a Chief Data Officer, it consolidates the privacy signals in one place, though judging adequacy of protection still draws on your own controls and standards.
Chief Data Officer·Data
YesWho owns each data domain, and is governance enforced consistently?
Atlas gives you a governance view where ownership, policies and their exceptions are recorded, so you can see who is accountable for each domain and where the rules are being departed from. Ownership and policy live in one place, and the exceptions tell you whether governance is actually holding. For a chief data officer, this makes consistent enforcement something you can inspect rather than assume.
Chief Data Officer·Data
YesWhere do we have duplicated data maintenance we can consolidate?
Atlas holds your master data entities in one place, so you can see where the same entity is being maintained in more than one system. That overlap is exactly where duplicated effort and conflicting versions of the truth live. For a chief data officer this points straight at the consolidation candidates, so you can decide which system should own each entity.
Chief Data Officer·Data
YesWhat is the structure of our information across layers?
Atlas organises your information into data domains and a catalogue, giving a layered structure rather than a flat list of tables. You can see how information is grouped into domains and assets and how those relate across the model. For a chief data officer this provides a coherent map of the information estate to govern and reason about.
Chief Data Officer·Data
PartialWhich user groups use which data, and which data supports which capabilities?
Atlas gives you a data catalog with live counts across domains, assets, quality, master data and reference data, which is the foundation for these links. You can see the data assets themselves, and assemble the fuller picture by joining the catalog with your capability map. For a chief data officer the building blocks are there — Atlas shows the data landscape, and you connect usage and capability support across it rather than getting one ready-made report.
Chief Data Officer·Data
PartialHow reliable is the data we need for reporting?
Atlas provides data-quality monitoring, so you can see quality signals on the data assets in your catalogue rather than discovering problems mid-report. It gives you the quality view, but a full reliability verdict for a specific report is something you assemble by reading those signals against the sources that report actually draws on. For a chief data officer it means you head into reporting knowing where the weak data is, not finding out afterwards.
Chief Risk Officer·Risk
YesWhat are our critical business services, and which systems and third parties do they depend on?
Atlas maps dependencies between your services, systems and third parties and lets you run blast-radius and impact analysis from any node. You can take a critical business service and trace downward to every system and external party it relies on. For a chief risk officer, this turns concentration and third-party risk from a guess into a traceable dependency picture you can stress-test.
Chief Risk Officer·Risk
YesWhere is a single vendor or platform a single point of failure across services?
Atlas renders a dependency graph with blast-radius and impact analysis, so you can pick a vendor or platform and see every service that leans on it. The concentration shows up visually: where many critical services trace back to one supplier, that single point of failure is plain to see. For a chief risk officer this turns concentration risk from an abstract worry into a specific, mapped exposure you can challenge.
Chief Risk Officer·Risk
YesWhat key risks do we have across people, process and systems?
Atlas keeps a risk register where risks are recorded and tracked in one place. Because it sits alongside your applications, capabilities and teams, you can see risk spanning people, process and systems rather than in isolated silos. For a chief risk officer this gives a single, structured source for the risks that matter across the organisation.
Chief Risk Officer·Risk
YesWho owns each major IT risk, and which controls mitigate it?
Atlas holds a controls library mapped to frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001, linking each control to the systems and risks it addresses. From there you can see which controls mitigate a given risk and who is accountable for it. For a chief risk officer this connects ownership to mitigation in one structured place, rather than leaving risks orphaned across teams.
Chief Risk Officer·Risk
YesWhat is the business impact if technology X fails?
Atlas gives you a dependency graph with blast-radius and impact analysis, so you can pick a technology and see everything downstream that depends on it. That turns a single point of failure into a visible chain of affected applications and capabilities. For a chief risk officer it answers the failure-impact question concretely instead of relying on the memory of whoever happens to be in the room.
Chief Risk Officer·Risk
PartialWhere do we have third-party concentration risk (for example a single cloud)?
Atlas gives you the building blocks: its compliance posture dashboard covers frameworks including DORA and the regulatory picture, which is where third-party and operational-resilience concentration belongs. You read concentration by combining that posture view with the vendor and technology data Atlas holds across the portfolio. For a Chief Risk Officer, it points you to where one provider underpins too much, though pulling the full concentration picture takes some assembly across modules.
Chief Risk Officer·Compliance & Privacy
PartialWhich critical functions and their ICT systems and third parties do we have (DORA)?
Atlas gives you the building blocks for a DORA view from its privacy home — DPIA, DSAR, ROPA and transfers — alongside the dependency mapping that ties systems to third parties. You assemble the critical-function register by linking your important functions to the ICT systems and external providers Atlas already tracks, rather than getting a DORA-shaped report out of the box. For a chief risk officer, this means the underlying data is in one place even though the formal DORA mapping is something you compose.
Chief Risk Officer·Risk
PartialWhat is the impact on people, finance and ICT of this architecture decision?
Atlas supports what-if scenario planning, so you can model an architecture decision and explore how it plays out across the landscape before you commit. The financial and ICT dimensions draw on the linked cost and dependency data, while the people impact is something you bring in alongside it rather than a fully native dimension. For a chief risk officer this gives you a structured place to weigh consequences across angles, with the human-impact lens added by hand.
Enterprise Architect·Application & Portfolio
YesWhat does the application landscape look like, and how do applications relate to each other?
Atlas gives you an interactive Landscape Graph — a read-only canvas spanning applications, technologies, capabilities and teams, where the edges show dependencies, interfaces, technology usage, capability realisation and team ownership. You can filter, trace blast-radius, apply a lifecycle (TIME) lens and export the view as PNG or SVG. For an enterprise architect, it is the single shared picture that replaces stale diagrams scattered across Visio and slide decks.
Enterprise Architect·Business Architecture
YesWhich capabilities matter most, and which technology changes strengthen them?
Atlas links your capabilities to the applications and technologies that realise them, and tracks change activity against that map so you can see which technology moves land on which capability. You start from the capabilities that carry the most strategic weight and trace the changes that reinforce or weaken them. For an enterprise architect, this connects change planning directly to capability priority rather than treating changes as isolated tickets.
Enterprise Architect·Business Architecture
PartialWhat is the current maturity, cost, complexity and risk per capability versus target?
Atlas tracks cost directly, with license and run cost per application and technology rolled up against budgets, so the financial picture per capability is solid. Maturity, complexity and risk are not a single ready-made score; you assemble that view from the capability map, the application register and the cost data. For an enterprise architect this means the building blocks for a current-versus-target read are there, but you compose the full comparison rather than reading it off one dial.
Enterprise Architect·Application & Portfolio
YesWhere do we have redundancy or duplication suitable for rationalisation?
Atlas runs a rationalisation analysis that highlights redundancy and overlap across the portfolio and names concrete candidates to consolidate. It points to where several applications cover the same ground, so the duplication is visible rather than anecdotal. For an enterprise architect this turns consolidation from a hunch into an evidenced shortlist you can act on.
Enterprise Architect·Change & Delivery
YesWhat is the downstream impact of changing app or technology X?
Atlas shows the dependency graph around any app or technology and runs blast-radius analysis to trace what is connected downstream. You can select a node and see everything that would be affected if it changes or fails. For an enterprise architect this makes the ripple effect of a change visible up front, so you can sequence and de-risk it rather than discover the consequences in production.
Enterprise Architect·Strategy
PartialWhere are the gaps between current and target architecture?
Atlas shows capability gaps by plotting target versus current maturity against strategic importance, highlighting which capabilities are under- or over-supported. That gives you the capability-level distance between where you are and where you want to be. It is not the full target-architecture delta on its own, so you assemble the complete picture by reading those gaps alongside your applications and initiatives — but for an enterprise architect it is the fastest way to point at the gaps that actually matter.
Enterprise Architect·Change & Delivery
PartialDoes our project portfolio cover all of our business goals?
Atlas gives you the building blocks: alignment scorecards map your initiatives and portfolio onto your strategic objectives and surface where coverage is missing or thin. You assemble the full answer by reading which objectives have no backing initiative against the misalignment detection. For an enterprise architect, that exposes the blind spots — goals everyone assumed were covered but that no project actually serves.
Enterprise Architect·Governance
PartialWhich standards and principles govern the architecture, and are they being followed?
Atlas gives you a governance view where architecture policies and principles are recorded alongside their exceptions, so you can see what is meant to apply and where reality diverges. It captures the principles and the documented deviations, but you assemble the full picture of adherence by reading exceptions against the applications and technologies they relate to. For an enterprise architect, this makes governance auditable and visible rather than buried in slide decks.
Enterprise Architect·Strategy
PartialCan we trace a requirement from strategic objective down to application and technology (the golden thread)?
Atlas models strategy as a Playing-to-Win hierarchy, from winning aspiration and where-to-play through how-to-win, capabilities and management systems, broken into themes, objectives and initiatives. From there the thread continues into the capabilities and applications that deliver each objective, so you can follow intent down toward the landscape. The trace is partial rather than a single unbroken line at requirement granularity, so for an architect it gives you most of the golden thread and you close the last link by hand.
Enterprise Architect·Business Architecture
YesWhat is the capability heat-map against strategic importance?
Atlas plots your capabilities by target versus current maturity against their strategic importance, so under-supported and over-supported capabilities stand out at a glance. The gaps view makes clear where you are investing too little in something that matters and where you are over-serving something that doesn't. For an enterprise architect this directs attention and budget to the capabilities that actually move the strategy.
Solution Architect·Technology
PartialWhich technologies are standard, and can we reuse an existing solution?
Atlas gives you the building blocks here: the data catalogue overview shows live counts across domains, assets, quality, master data and reference data, so you can see what already exists. Whether something is the approved standard, and whether it can be reused, is a judgement you assemble from that inventory together with your technology and application records. For a solution architect this means you can check what is already in place before proposing something new, while the formal standard list is built from the surrounding catalogue.
Solution Architect·Integration
PartialHow do we integrate a new solution into the existing landscape?
Atlas holds an interface repository describing the data flows between your applications, so you can see how systems already connect before you add another. That gives you the integration context — the existing flows a new solution would need to plug into. For a solution architect Atlas supplies the building blocks of the picture; you use the interface map together with the surrounding dependencies to design how the new solution fits in.
Solution Architect·Integration
YesWhat dependencies and data flows does this system have to others?
Atlas holds an interface repository that records the data flows between applications, so you can pick a system and see what it exchanges with everything around it. That gives you both the dependencies and the actual flows in one place. For a solution architect it means integration impact is something you can read off the model before you design, not discover during a release.
Solution Architect·Technology
GuidedCan we improve response time and performance on these applications?
Atlas does not measure runtime performance or response times natively — that signal belongs in an APM tool such as Datadog, which has an Atlas connector. What Atlas does show is the TIME quadrant with functional and technical fit, helping you decide whether a poorly performing app is worth investing in or should be migrated or eliminated. For a solution architect, you read the live performance numbers in your APM and bring them into Atlas to inform the invest-versus-divest call.
Best handled in: Datadog / APM (Atlas-connector findes)
Solution Architect·Application & Portfolio
PartialWhich legacy components are candidates for migration or integration?
Atlas holds an interface repository that maps the data flows between your applications, so you can see how legacy components are wired into the rest of the estate. That shows you the integration surface of each candidate, and you assemble the migration case by reading those flows alongside the technology and fit signals Atlas already holds on those apps. For a solution architect, this grounds migration and integration choices in the real connections rather than assumptions about them.
Solution Architect·Data
YesWhich applications create, change or transmit employee data?
Atlas maintains a ROPA, a record of processing activities that shows where sensitive and personal data lives and is processed. You can identify the applications that handle employee data and see how they create, change or pass it on. For a solution architect this gives a clear, governed answer to where personal data flows before you design or change a system that touches it.
Solution Architect·Integration
PartialHow are services orchestrated across systems into one end-to-end process?
Atlas gives you part of this through its interface repository, which records the data flows between applications, so you can trace how systems pass information to one another. From those flows you can assemble the end-to-end picture, but Atlas describes the integrations rather than executing or orchestrating them at runtime. For a solution architect this is the structural map of how services connect, which you pair with your integration or orchestration platform for the live behaviour.
Solution Architect·Technology
PartialWhat is our approach to modularity, reuse, portability and interoperability?
Atlas records Architecture Decision Records with a full draft-to-accepted-to-superseded lifecycle and links to the things each decision affects. That is where principles like modularity, reuse, portability and interoperability live as deliberate, traceable decisions rather than tribal knowledge. For a solution architect Atlas gives you the place to capture and govern the approach; you author the principles, and Atlas keeps them visible and tied to the architecture they shape.
Business Architect·Business Architecture
YesWhich apps support each step in this value stream / process?
Atlas maps your value streams and shows the applications that support them, so you can follow a stream and see the systems underneath each part of it. That connects the business flow to the application landscape directly. For a business architect it makes it obvious where a value stream is well supported and where it is running on thin or missing tooling.
Business Architect·Application & Portfolio
YesHow well does each application perform for the process step it supports (functional fit)?
Atlas keeps your application inventory as the core EA register — vendor, owner, lifecycle, TIME, criticality and licence cost — with the functional fit assessment held against each application. You can see at a glance which apps serve their process step well and which are underperforming. For a business architect, that makes fit a visible, comparable property of the portfolio rather than a one-off survey result.
Business Architect·Strategy
YesAre our strategic investments aimed at the right capabilities?
Atlas provides alignment scorecards that show whether your IT investments and portfolio map to your strategic objectives, and it flags where they do not. You can see which capabilities your spend actually backs and where there is misalignment between strategy and where the money goes. For a business architect, this makes the case for or against an investment in terms of strategic fit, not just cost.
Business Architect·People & Org
PartialWhich competencies and responsibilities sit where in the organisation?
Atlas maps your teams and their topology, so you can see how the organisation is structured and where ownership sits. That gives you responsibilities by team and the shape of who owns what, with detailed competency or skills depth assembled alongside the dedicated skills view. For a business architect this means the organisational structure is clear here, and you layer in the fine-grained competency picture from the complementary skills data.
Business Architect·Business Architecture
PartialHow is each business service realised by underlying processes, and with what value?
Atlas gives you value streams modelled in a lean style, which show how value is delivered through a sequence of steps. From there you can connect a business service to the processes that realise it, though you assemble the full service-to-process-to-value chain from the value streams together with your process and capability mappings. For a business architect this provides the value lens, while the complete realisation picture is built across the related modules.
Business Architect·Data
PartialWhat information needs to flow to support this process?
Atlas tracks data lineage, so you can see how data moves and transforms across the landscape that a process draws on. That gives you a view of the actual flows behind a process, from source through transformation. For a business architect Atlas provides the building blocks; you read the lineage alongside the process to confirm which information must flow for it to work, rather than getting a single process-information report.
Business Architect·Business Architecture
YesWhich capabilities most need improvement (importance × maturity)?
Atlas shows capability gaps by plotting target versus current maturity against strategic importance, so the capabilities that are both important and weak rise to the top. It highlights which are under- or over-supported, giving you a clear order of priority. For a business architect it turns the improvement question into a ranked, defensible shortlist rather than an opinion.
Business Architect·Business Architecture
PartialWhat does the roadmap look like for closing the capability gap?
Atlas gives you the building blocks: its initiative and application roadmap timeline shows when changes land and how they are sequenced, so you can lay out the moves intended to close a gap. You assemble the gap-closing view by reading that roadmap against the capabilities you have identified as weak. For a business architect, it makes the sequencing concrete, though connecting each initiative to the specific capability it closes is work you do on top of the timeline.
Business Process Manager·Business Architecture
YesWhich applications support a given process?
Atlas models your business processes, including BPMN, and maps capabilities to processes, so you can see which applications support a given process. The process map ties each process to the systems behind it. For a business process manager this makes the application footprint of a process explicit, which is exactly what you need before changing or optimising it.
Business Process Manager·Business Architecture
YesWhat does the process workflow look like in its individual steps?
Atlas documents your business processes with BPMN and a process map, and maps capabilities to processes, so you can see a workflow step by step and what each step relates to. That gives you the process detail in the same model as the rest of your architecture. For a business process manager it means the workflow is a living, connected artefact rather than a static diagram filed away somewhere.
Business Process Manager·People & Org
PartialWho are the stakeholders and responsible parties in each process?
Atlas gives you the building blocks: its org design and people view records who sits where in the organisation, which is the foundation for identifying responsible parties. You assemble the per-process picture by linking those people to the applications and capabilities that support a given process. For a business process manager, it gets you to accountable names, though process-level RACI is something you compose from the org and portfolio data rather than read off directly.
Business Process Manager·Risk
YesWhat is the impact of a technology failure on our business processes?
Atlas gives you an interactive Landscape Graph over applications, technologies, capabilities and teams, with blast-radius analysis that shows what a given failure ripples through. You can start from a technology and trace its dependencies and the capabilities it realises to see which processes are hit. For a business process manager, this turns a technology outage into a clear picture of which business processes stop and why.
Business Process Manager·Business Architecture
PartialWhat dependencies exist between our main processes?
Atlas renders a dependency graph with blast-radius and impact analysis across the landscape, so you can follow how things rely on each other. The dependencies are strongest at the application, technology and capability level, so process-to-process links come through the capabilities and systems that carry each process rather than as a pure process map. For a business process manager this means you can read inter-process dependence through the architecture, assembling the process view from the capability and system links.
Business Process Manager·Business Architecture
GuidedWhere are the process bottlenecks or opportunities for improvement?
Atlas models your business processes with BPMN and maps capabilities to processes, giving you a clear process map, but it does not measure throughput or detect bottlenecks from event data. Finding actual bottlenecks is best done with a process-mining tool such as Celonis. For a business process manager this means Atlas gives the structured map of how processes are meant to run, which you pair with process mining to see where they actually slow down.
Best handled in: Process mining (Celonis o.l.)
Business Process Manager·Data
PartialWhat information is shared across processes?
Atlas tracks data lineage, so you can follow how data moves and transforms across the landscape that several processes share. That reveals where the same information passes through more than one process. For a business process manager Atlas gives you the building blocks; you read the lineage across your process map to pinpoint the shared information, rather than getting a single cross-process data report.
IT Program Manager·Change & Delivery
YesWhich applications are affected by which projects?
Atlas runs a strategic initiatives portfolio that scores initiatives on value versus risk and links each one to the capabilities and applications it touches. From any initiative you can see the applications in scope, and from any application the initiatives acting on it. For an IT programme manager, this makes cross-project impact on the estate visible in one place instead of stitched together from separate plans.
IT Program Manager·Change & Delivery
PartialWhich projects deliver the highest value, and is the budget on track?
Atlas tracks license and run cost against budgets per application and technology, so the budget-on-track side of the question rests on real figures. Ranking projects by value is something you frame from that cost data together with the strategy and roadmap views rather than a single project-scoring screen. For an IT program manager this gives a trustworthy budget read, with the value ranking composed from the cost and strategy building blocks.
IT Program Manager·Change & Delivery
PartialWhen will the customer-platform consolidation project be finished?
Atlas places the consolidation initiative on a roadmap timeline alongside the applications it affects, so you can see its planned sequencing and when the changes are set to land. That gives you the target dates as modelled in the architecture, rather than live delivery progress from a project plan. For an IT programme manager this is the architectural view of when consolidation completes, which you reconcile with your delivery tracking for day-to-day status.
IT Program Manager·Change & Delivery
PartialWhich projects deliver the target architecture, and how do they map to it?
Atlas gives you an initiative and application roadmap timeline showing when changes land and how they are sequenced. That lets you see which initiatives are moving the landscape and in what order. For an IT programme manager Atlas supplies the building blocks; you use the roadmap together with your target architecture to confirm the mapping, rather than getting a single project-to-target traceability report out of the box.
IT Program Manager·Change & Delivery
PartialWhat are the dependencies between strategies, investments and programmes?
Atlas gives you an initiative and application roadmap timeline that shows when changes land and how they are sequenced, so you can see how programmes line up over time. The full strategy-to-investment-to-programme chain is something you assemble by reading that roadmap alongside the linked initiatives and capabilities. For an IT programme manager it surfaces the sequencing clashes and dependencies early, while there is still time to re-plan.
IT Program Manager·Change & Delivery
YesWhich projects deliver the highest value at the lowest risk?
Atlas shows alignment scorecards that map your initiatives onto strategic objectives and detect where investment and strategy are misaligned, so you can see which projects pull hardest toward your goals. Reading value-to-objective alongside misalignment lets you separate the high-leverage initiatives from the risky outliers. For an IT programme manager, that gives you a defensible basis for prioritising and sequencing the portfolio.
IT Program Manager·Change & Delivery
PartialWill systems and services stay operational during the transition?
Atlas includes a decommissioning planner that helps you sequence retirements and see what depends on a system before it goes, so you can stage transitions safely. It gives you the planning and dependency view for an orderly cutover, but ongoing operational status during the transition you assemble by reading those dependencies against your live monitoring. For an IT programme manager, this means the retirement sequence is grounded in what actually relies on each system.
IT Program Manager·Change & Delivery
PartialHow do we sequence the migration across work packages?
Atlas provides an initiative and application roadmap timeline that shows when changes land and how they are sequenced. You can lay the moving parts on a shared timeline and see the order in which things need to happen. The native sequencing works at the initiative and application level, so for an IT program manager it gives the backbone of the migration plan, with finer work-package detail layered on as you break it down.
IT Program Manager·Change & Delivery
GuidedIs the project budget on track (detailed burn-down)?
Atlas does not produce a project burn-down; detailed budget tracking against delivery is best handled in a PPM tool such as Jira, MS Project or Smartsheet. What Atlas holds is the cost side of the estate — licence and run cost per application and technology against budgets — which gives the architectural cost context but not a project-level burn-down. For an IT programme manager this means you keep budget tracking in the PPM tool and link it to the affected applications in Atlas.
Best handled in: Jira / MS Project / Smartsheet (PPM)
Product Owner·Application & Portfolio
YesWhich systems or parts of the stack support my product?
Atlas holds a technology inventory — cloud, runtimes, databases and frameworks — linked to the applications and capabilities they support, with obsolescence signals attached. You can see exactly which parts of the stack sit under your product and how current they are. For a product owner, this makes the technical foundation of your product visible without having to ask engineering to draw it each time.
Product Owner·Change & Delivery
PartialWhich technical dependencies and constraints affect my roadmap?
Atlas shows an initiative and application roadmap timeline of when changes land and how they are sequenced, so you can see what else is moving around your plan. Read alongside the dependency graph, the constraints that one initiative places on another become visible. For a product owner this means the roadmap timing is native, and you read the technical constraints by pairing it with the dependency view.
Product Owner·Application & Portfolio
YesHow well do the supporting systems fit the need?
Atlas holds the core application inventory — vendor, owner, lifecycle, TIME classification, criticality and licence cost — which is where fit is assessed for each supporting system. The TIME view in particular tells you whether to tolerate, invest, migrate or eliminate an application against the need it serves. For a product owner this shows clearly how well the systems behind your product match what it actually requires.
Product Owner·Business Architecture
PartialWhich capabilities does my product still need to support?
Atlas shows capability gaps by comparing target versus current maturity against strategic importance, and flags which capabilities are under- or over-supported. That highlights where capability is missing relative to where it should be. For a product owner Atlas gives you the building blocks; you read the gap view against your product's scope to identify the capabilities it still needs to support, rather than getting a product-specific gap list out of the box.
Product Owner·Change & Delivery
PartialWhich changes/releases are coming that affect my product?
Atlas runs ITIL change management, so planned changes are recorded and you can see what is in the pipeline across the landscape. Narrowing that to exactly what hits your product is something you assemble by reading the changes against the applications and dependencies your product relies on. For a product owner it means upcoming change is visible and traceable rather than arriving as a surprise.
Product Owner·People & Org
YesWho owns the systems I depend on?
Atlas holds org design and people data, and the application register records the owner of each system, so you can trace from a system you depend on to the person accountable for it. That gives you a direct line to who to talk to rather than asking around. For a product owner, it removes the guesswork from coordinating across the systems your product relies on.
Application Owner·Application & Portfolio
YesWhat is the lifecycle status of my app (Plan/Active/Phase-out/EoL)?
Atlas runs dependency and technology-obsolescence risk detection that flags end-of-life, tech debt and single points of failure across your portfolio. For your app this surfaces where it sits on the lifecycle and what is ageing underneath it. For an application owner it means you learn an end-of-life risk from the model in advance, not from an outage.
Application Owner·Technology
YesWhen does an application or component reach end-of-support and expose us to risk?
Atlas maps components and their relationships in a dependency graph with blast-radius and impact analysis, so you can see what reaches end-of-support and what would be exposed when it does. Tracing the dependents of an ageing component tells you how far the risk spreads. For an application owner, that turns an approaching end-of-support date into a clear, evidence-backed case for remediation before it bites.
Application Owner·Cost & Financials
YesDoes this app deliver enough value to justify maintaining it?
Atlas tracks cost per application — licence and run cost against budget — so you can see exactly what an app costs to keep alive. Set that against the capabilities it supports and its fit scores in Atlas, and you have a grounded keep-or-retire case rather than a gut call. For an application owner, this gives you a defensible answer when the maintenance spend is questioned.
Application Owner·Application & Portfolio
PartialWho subscribes to or uses my application?
Atlas holds the application in its core EA register with owner, vendor, lifecycle, criticality and cost, and through interfaces and dependencies you can see which systems and teams connect to it. Actual end-user subscription and login activity is not measured by Atlas; that comes from a usage source such as Productiv or SSO logs through a connector. For an application owner this means the governed who-relates-to-it picture is in Atlas, and you bind the real usage signal in from the connected source.
Application Owner·Data
YesWhat data does my application process, and is it classified?
Atlas has a privacy home covering DPIAs, DSARs, ROPA and transfers, where the data your application handles is recorded and classified against personal and sensitive categories. Because it is linked to the application itself, you can see your app's data alongside its processing records. For an application owner this gives a clear, classified account of what your system holds and how it is treated.
Application Owner·Integration
YesWhat interfaces and dependencies does my app have?
Atlas holds an interface repository describing the data flows between applications, so you can open your app and see exactly which interfaces and dependencies it has. Both the inbound and outbound connections are laid out clearly. For an application owner this gives you an immediate, accurate picture of what your app talks to — essential before any change, incident or upgrade.
Application Owner·Application & Portfolio
YesIs my app data fresh/verified (owner sign-off)?
Atlas gives you a data catalogue overview with live counts across domains, assets, quality, master data and reference data, so you can see the current state of your data at a glance. That live view tells you whether what you are looking at is up to date rather than stale. For an application owner it means your sign-off rests on the real, current picture, not on a snapshot from last quarter.
Developer·People & Org
PartialWho is responsible for this app or microservice?
Atlas captures org design and people, so you can see ownership and the teams behind parts of the estate. It gives you the organisational mapping, and you confirm responsibility for a specific app or microservice by reading that org view against the team-ownership links Atlas holds on each application. For a developer, this points you to the right owner without trawling a wiki or asking around.
Developer·Application & Portfolio
PartialWhich microservices do we use?
Atlas lets you extend the model with custom entity and relationship types through its metamodel, so you can represent microservices as a first-class type and relate them to applications and technologies. A live, auto-populated service catalogue, however, is best kept in a tool like Backstage, which Atlas links to rather than replaces. For a developer this means Atlas can hold the governed architectural view of services, while the running source-of-truth catalogue stays in your service-catalogue tooling.
What application integrations exist across the landscape?
Atlas has an interface repository that records the data flows between applications across the landscape. You can see which systems exchange data with which, and what flows between them. For a developer this gives a concrete map of the integrations you need to account for before changing or building against a system.
Developer·Technology
PartialWhich technologies and standards are approved for use?
Atlas gives you a data catalog with live counts across domains, assets, quality, master data and reference data, which is where reference and standards information is curated. From there you can see the governed reference data rather than relying on informal lists. For a developer Atlas supplies the building blocks; you read the curated reference and standards entries to confirm what is approved, with the fuller standards picture assembled across the catalogue and your architecture decisions.
Developer·Integration
PartialWhich services call my service, and what does it call?
Atlas holds an interface repository that records data flows between applications, so you can see the documented connections in and out of your service. For live, runtime call-by-call tracing this is best handled in a service mesh or distributed-tracing tool, which Atlas complements by linking to that evidence rather than reproducing it. For a developer it means the architectural view of who talks to whom lives in Atlas, with the runtime detail kept where it belongs.
Where do I find the ADR or runbook for this component?
Atlas has a governance area that holds your policies and exceptions, giving you a single place to find the decisions and rules attached to a component. From there you can reach the architecture decisions and governance context rather than hunting through wikis and chat history. For a developer, that means the relevant ADR and runbook context sit next to the component instead of being scattered.
Procurement / Vendor·Cost & Financials
YesWho are our largest suppliers by spend, and what is the concentration risk?
Atlas tracks cost per application and technology — licence and run cost plus budgets — so you can rank vendors by spend across the portfolio. Seeing the spend concentrated by supplier shows you where a single vendor carries a large share of the estate. For procurement, that turns supplier concentration from an anecdote into a ranked, evidence-backed view you can act on in negotiations.
Procurement / Vendor·Governance
YesWhen do our top contracts come up for renewal?
Atlas surfaces contract and vendor governance in its governance view, where renewal terms and obligations are recorded alongside the applications and technologies they cover. That lets you see which agreements are approaching renewal and what they sit under. For procurement, this turns renewal timing into a tracked signal you can plan negotiations around rather than a date discovered too late.
Procurement / Vendor·Application & Portfolio
YesWhich tools and vendors overlap in function and can be consolidated?
Atlas runs a rationalisation analysis that surfaces redundancy and functional overlap across the portfolio and flags the candidates to consolidate. You see where two or more tools are doing the same job, which is exactly where consolidation savings hide. For procurement and vendor management this turns 'do we have duplicates' into a concrete shortlist you can take into renewal conversations.
Procurement / Vendor·Technology
PartialWhich technology standards and products are approved, and what can be bought off the shelf?
Atlas gives you the building blocks: the data catalogue overview shows live counts across domains, assets, quality, master data and reference data, so you can see what is already in place. Which items are formally approved standards, and what is available off the shelf, is a view you assemble from that inventory together with your technology records. For procurement this means you can ground buying decisions in what the organisation already owns and standardises on, with the approved list built from the surrounding catalogue.
Procurement / Vendor·Risk
PartialWhat is our exposure per vendor (lifecycle, vulnerabilities)?
Atlas detects dependency and technology-obsolescence risk — end-of-life, ageing technology and single points of failure — which covers the lifecycle side of vendor exposure. For live vulnerability data it is best to bring in a dedicated tool such as Snyk or Vanta, for which an Atlas connector exists, so those findings attach to the affected vendors and systems. For procurement this gives you the building blocks: Atlas frames lifecycle and obsolescence exposure per vendor, and the connector adds vulnerability detail to complete the picture.
Procurement / Vendor·Cost & Financials
PartialHow do we make procurement decisions that fit the architecture at the best price?
Atlas tracks cost per application and technology, including licence and run cost and budgets, so you can see what you already pay and what a new purchase would sit next to. The architecture-fit side comes from reading those costs against your capabilities and existing landscape, so you assemble the full best-fit, best-price view rather than getting it as a single score. For procurement it grounds a buying decision in real cost and real architecture rather than vendor pitch alone.
Procurement / Vendor·Cost & Financials
PartialWhat is the TCO including licence and support per supplier?
Atlas gives you the building blocks: it tracks cost per application and technology — licence and run cost plus budgets — which you roll up by supplier to approach a per-vendor TCO. You assemble the full TCO picture by aggregating those line items against each vendor rather than reading a finished figure. For procurement, it gets you a structured, traceable cost base per supplier, with the support and contract nuances layered in from your own contract data.
What is our winning aspiration and our where-to-play / how-to-win?
Atlas offers a Playing-to-Win cascade lens that lays out your winning aspiration, where-to-play and how-to-win choices as a connected set rather than scattered statements. You see the strategy as a coherent cascade tied through to the capabilities and portfolio beneath it. For a board or CEO, this makes the core strategic choices explicit and reviewable in one frame.
Board / CEO·Strategy
PartialIs IT aligned with the business strategy over time and across scenarios?
Atlas provides alignment scorecards that show whether IT investments and the portfolio map to strategic objectives, and surface where they do not. That gives you a clear read on alignment today and where the gaps sit. The over-time and across-scenarios dimension is something you add by pairing the scorecards with the roadmap and scenario views, so for a board or CEO the alignment picture is direct and you extend it across time by composing those views.
Which strategic initiatives deliver which outcomes?
Atlas tracks cost per application and technology, including licence and run cost against budgets, and ties that spend to the initiatives driving it, so you can see what each strategic initiative is investing and where. That gives the board the financial throughline from initiative to the part of the estate it changes. For a board or CEO this anchors the strategy conversation in what is being spent and on what, rather than narrative alone.
Board / CEO·Strategy
PartialWhere should we invest first, and which dependencies could slow the transformation?
Atlas gives you an initiative and application roadmap timeline showing when changes land and how they are sequenced, which frames where to start. Read alongside the dependency view, it lets you see which links could hold the transformation back. For a board or CEO Atlas provides the building blocks; you combine the roadmap and the dependencies to settle investment priority and spot the constraints, rather than getting a single prioritisation verdict.
Why do we need to change (internal and external drivers)?
Atlas frames strategy as a Playing-to-Win hierarchy — winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, capabilities and management systems — broken into themes, objectives and initiatives. That lets you state the drivers for change and connect them straight to what you intend to do about them. For a board or CEO it turns the case for change from a narrative into a structured, defensible line from driver to action.
Board / CEO·Cost & Financials
PartialWhat is the expected business value or KPI that justifies the investment?
Atlas gives you the building blocks: it tracks cost per application and technology — licence and run cost plus budgets — so the investment side of the case is grounded in real numbers. You assemble the value-versus-cost story by setting your expected business outcomes against that cost base, since Atlas anchors the spend rather than projecting the return. For a board or CEO, it makes the cost half of the business case defensible and traceable, with the value KPIs supplied from the business case itself.
AI Governance Lead·AI Governance
YesWhere is (gen)AI used across the landscape, including shadow AI?
Atlas gives you an interactive landscape graph across applications, technologies, capabilities and teams, where edges show dependencies, interfaces, technology usage, capability realisation and team ownership, with filters and a TIME lens. You can filter and trace where AI technologies are in use and follow their connections, including ones that have crept in unofficially. For an AI governance lead this turns a sprawling, partly invisible AI footprint into something you can actually see and reason about.
AI Governance Lead·AI Governance
YesWhich of our systems are in scope for the EU AI Act, and what is their compliance status?
Atlas runs an EU AI Act risk classification over your AI use-cases, sorting them by Annex III into prohibited, high, limited and minimal risk so you can see which systems fall in scope and at what tier. The classification gives you the compliance posture per use-case in one place. For an AI Governance Lead, that is the defensible starting register for evidencing AI Act readiness.
AI Governance Lead·AI Governance
YesWhich AI systems are high-risk (Annex III)?
Atlas classifies your AI use-cases against the EU AI Act, sorting them into prohibited, high, limited and minimal risk, with Annex III high-risk cases identified directly. You get a register that tells you which AI systems fall into the high-risk tier and why. For an AI governance lead, this turns the Act's risk tiers into a working inventory you can govern from rather than a legal text to interpret each time.
AI Governance Lead·AI Governance
YesDo any of our AI systems fall under prohibited practices?
Atlas classifies your AI use-cases against the EU AI Act, sorting them into prohibited, high, limited and minimal risk in line with Annex III. The prohibited band is called out explicitly, so any use-case that crosses the line surfaces directly rather than hiding in a list. For an AI governance lead this is the fast first screen: it tells you immediately whether anything in the estate sits in territory you simply cannot operate in.
AI Governance Lead·AI Governance
PartialWhich data sources does each AI system use, and are they governed?
Atlas gives you an AI governance home that brings your AI systems together in one place to be tracked and reviewed. The link from each system to its underlying data sources is something you assemble by connecting it to your data catalogue and application records, rather than reading it off a single ready-made report. For an AI governance lead this gives a starting register for AI oversight, with the data-lineage picture built up from the surrounding model.
AI Governance Lead·AI Governance
YesHave we carried out FRIA/DPIA for high-risk AI?
Atlas classifies your AI use-cases against the EU AI Act Annex III risk tiers — prohibited, high, limited and minimal — so you can see which cases are high-risk and therefore demand a FRIA or DPIA. That tells you where the obligation applies and lets you track whether each high-risk case has been assessed. For an AI governance lead it anchors your fundamental-rights and privacy assessments to a defensible, regulation-aligned risk classification.
AI Governance Lead·AI Governance
YesWho owns each AI use-case, and what are the guardrails?
Atlas keeps an AI use-cases registry with links from each use-case to the applications it is deployed in, so ownership and context sit together in one record. You can see which use-cases exist, where they run and who is accountable for them. For an AI governance lead it turns scattered AI activity into a registered, owned set of use-cases you can hold guardrails against.
AI Governance Lead·AI Governance
YesWhat is the transparency and bias status of our AI?
Atlas produces AI transparency reports for your AI use-cases, giving you a documented view of transparency status across the inventory. You can review where disclosure and accountability obligations are met and where they are still open. For an AI Governance Lead, it keeps the transparency story maintained and auditable rather than reconstructed for each review.
Sustainability Officer·Sustainability
GuidedWhat is the carbon footprint of our IT infrastructure and software?
Atlas does not calculate carbon footprint — that is best handled in a dedicated green-IT or carbon-accounting platform, which Atlas can link to as the source of that evidence. What Atlas contributes is AI-generated architecture insights, anomalies and recommendations over your estate, which give you the inventory of infrastructure and software a carbon assessment would draw on. For a sustainability officer, Atlas is the map of what you run, with the footprint figures sourced from the specialist tool.
Best handled in: Green-IT / carbon-platform
Sustainability Officer·Sustainability
PartialWhich systems hold the data we need for Scope 1, 2 and 3 reporting?
Atlas maps your data domains and catalogue, so you can locate which systems hold which categories of data and trace the systems that would feed sustainability reporting. The catalogue tells you where the relevant data lives; the specific Scope 1, 2 and 3 framing is something you apply on top by tagging the relevant domains. For a sustainability officer this means Atlas points you to the source systems, and you map them to the reporting scopes from there.
Sustainability Officer·Sustainability
GuidedWhere are the opportunities to reduce energy use in the architecture?
Atlas does not measure energy consumption or carbon, so it cannot natively pinpoint where to cut energy use in the architecture. Its strategic opportunities view captures and tracks improvement options in general, so an energy-reduction opportunity can be recorded and managed there once it is identified, but the measurement itself belongs in dedicated sustainability or infrastructure tooling. For a sustainability officer this means you bring the energy data in from that tooling and link it as evidence to the opportunities you track in Atlas.
Sustainability Officer·Sustainability
PartialHow does our application portfolio support our ESG goals?
Atlas holds the core EA register — your application inventory with vendor, owner, lifecycle, TIME position, criticality and licence cost. That gives you the portfolio facts on which ESG questions rest, such as vendor mix and what you are running. For a sustainability officer Atlas provides the building blocks; you read the portfolio against your ESG goals to judge alignment, rather than getting a dedicated ESG scoring view.
Sustainability Officer·Sustainability
PartialCan we tag capabilities/apps with ESG relevance?
Atlas surfaces AI-generated architecture insights, anomalies and recommendations across your landscape, which can help highlight where sustainability concerns sit. Dedicated ESG tagging is not a native field, so the ESG-relevance view is something you assemble from those insights and your own classification rather than a ready-made tag. For a sustainability officer it gives a starting lens on the landscape while being honest that full ESG tagging is not built in yet.
HR / Change·People & Org
PartialWhich roles and actors are required to support the architecture?
Atlas gives you the building blocks: its teams and team-topology view records which teams exist and how they are shaped, which is the foundation for reasoning about who must support the architecture. You assemble the roles-required picture by reading team topology against the capabilities and applications those teams own. For an HR or change lead, it grounds the people side of a change in the actual team structure, though mapping every required role to the architecture is work you compose on top.
HR / Change·People & Org
PartialWhat is the impact of this change on people's day-to-day work?
Atlas captures org design and people, so you can see which teams and roles sit behind the affected systems. It gives you the people side of the map, and you assemble the day-to-day impact by reading that org view against the applications and capabilities a change touches. For an HR or change lead, this grounds the human impact of a change in who actually owns and uses what, rather than a general assumption.
HR / Change·People & Org
YesWhere do we have skill gaps against the desired architecture?
Atlas holds a skill matrix with capacity and gaps, so you can compare the skills you have against the skills the target architecture demands. The gaps surface directly, showing where capability on paper outruns the people who can run it. For HR and change leads this turns the desired architecture into a concrete capability-building agenda rather than a vague worry about readiness.
HR / Change·People & Org
YesHow well does the team structure match the system architecture (Conway)?
Atlas provides a Conway's Law mapping that places your team structure against your system architecture, so you can see where ownership lines up with the systems and where it doesn't. Misalignments — systems with split or unclear ownership, or teams stretched across many systems — become visible. For HR and change this highlights where the organisation and the architecture pull against each other and where a reorganisation could ease delivery.
HR / Change·People & Org
YesWho should be involved or informed about this change (stakeholder map)?
Atlas models your org design and people, so you can see who sits where and which teams own what. Tied to the affected systems and capabilities, that tells you who is touched by a given change. For an HR or change lead this gives you a grounded stakeholder map — the people and teams to involve and inform — drawn from the actual organisation rather than guesswork.