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title: Exploring goals
description: Goals are important for aligning and optimizing investments in business applications and for driving strategic outcomes.
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# Exploring goals

Goals are important for aligning and optimizing investments in business applications and for driving strategic outcomes.

You can define and track goals and their outcomes as objectives. This enables the prioritization and effective allocation of business applications, confirming the adherence to the organization’s strategic needs and objectives.

Using the Enterprise Architecture Workspace, you can perform the following:

-   Create goals and assign contributors
-   Track goals to completion
-   Add quantitative targets to goals
-   Add qualitative targets to goals
-   Add sub-goals
-   Add demands to a goal
-   Associate a goal with the business processes and business capabilities

A goal is mapped to a business process, and to a business capability, using the relationship type **Realizes :: Realized by**.

**Parent Topic:**[Exploring the business architecture](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-business-architecture.md)

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