Business capabilities play an integral role in two common approaches to harmonizing IT and business: enterprise architecture management (EAM) and strategic portfolio management (SPM). EAM gives firms a real-time view into the full repository of their IT assets, how they interrelate, and how they align with the business vision. SPM, in turn, helps them visualize the cost, complexity, and feasibility of changes to the IT portfolio, and the impact of those changes on business outcomes. An EAM/SPM tool can help enterprises get more value out of business capabilities by mapping them to business strategy, assessing their current and required strength for achieving business strategy, relating them to IT costs, and assessing the potential of projects to fill existing capability gaps.