Enterprise Assets & Structure

A risk, audit, or resilience program is only as good as the underlying picture of how the business actually fits together. SmartSuite's Business Structure and Hierarchy solution gives organizations a unified, enterprise-wide framework for mapping business units, processes, applications, IT assets, vendors, personnel, and facilities, with the ownership and dependencies between them visible in one place.
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Key highlights

• Centralized Enterprise Structure Management: Run inventory, mapping, lifecycle tracking, and governance for enterprise assets and organizational structure in one system of record.
• Connected Organizational Mapping: Map business units, processes, applications, IT assets, vendors, personnel, and facilities into a connected model of enterprise architecture.
• Criticality and Risk Alignment: Classify components by criticality tier and operational impact, and connect them to broader risk posture for better prioritization.
• Ownership and Dependency Tracking: Ensure every component has a responsible owner and is mapped to the systems, processes, and vendors that support it.
• Foundation for GRC and Resilience: Reuse the same structural data across risk, compliance, audit, BIA, and operational resilience programs without duplicating data entry.
• Dashboards and Reporting: Provide real-time visibility into structural health, application ownership, asset inventories, lifecycle status, and enterprise-wide dependencies.
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How it works

• Business units, processes, applications, IT assets, personnel, facilities, and supporting vendors are documented in a centralized system of record.
• Components are linked to show ownership, support relationships, and operational dependencies across the enterprise.
• Each component is enriched with attributes such as lifecycle status, criticality tier, operational impact, and governance context.
• Dashboards provide visibility into application portfolios, asset inventories, business unit dependencies, and structural changes across the organization.
• The connected model supports enterprise architecture planning, operational risk management, modernization efforts, and broader governance workflows.
• Optional AI features can generate business unit summaries, surface critical dependencies, and recommend missing ownership, with human review retained throughout.
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GRC, risk, and architecture leaders get a single, defensible map of the enterprise, ready to power risk assessments, BIAs, audits, and resilience workflows from one shared source of truth.