to develop a Target Business Architecture, describing the product and/or service strategy, and the organizational, functional, process, information, and geographic aspects of the business environment, based on the business principles, business goals, and

map application components defined in the Application Architecture phase into a set of technology components, which represent software and hardware components

to define the major types and sources of data necessary to support the business

to define the major kinds of application system necessary to process the data and support the business