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title: Associate a product capability with a business application
description: You can create product capabilities and associate them with business applications in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace.
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# Associate a product capability with a business application

You can create product capabilities and associate them with business applications in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_apm.apm\_user

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **Workspaces** > **Enterprise Architecture Workspace**.

2.  Open the Portfolio List view by selecting the Portfolio icon \(\[Omitted image "eaw-portfolio-icon-polaris.png"\] Alt text:\).

3.  Select the expand row icon \(\[Omitted image "ExpandIcon.png"\] Alt text: Expand Row icon\) next to **Application Portfolio**.

4.  Select **Business Applications**.

5.  Select the business application that you want to create and associate new product capabilities to.

6.  Select **Product capabilities**.

7.  To create a product capability and associate with the business application, select **New**.

8.  In the **Create New Product Capability** page, fill in the form fields.

    For field information, see [Create product capability form](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-create-new-product-capability-form.md).

9.  Select **Save**.


## Result

The product capability is added to the business application. Also, the associated **Product Capability Maps** and **Capability Relationship Maps** tabs are displayed for the product capability. \[Omitted image "product-capability-assoc-related-list.png"\] Alt text: Product Capability Maps and Capability Relationship maps available as related list to the product capability.

**Parent Topic:**[Working with an application portfolio](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-work-with-application-portfolio.md)

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