IT Services Become Governance – Put Your Assets in Full Business Context

From IT Services to Full Business Context

In the latest update of vScope, you will find that IT Services have been replaced with Governance. This change reflects an important evolution in how vScope supports your organization. Previously, the feature allowed you to structure assets around IT services. That capability remains. But Governance now extends far beyond service modeling. You can connect assets in your repository to any business-relevant entity and build the structure that mirrors how your organization actually operates.

From Service View to Full Business Context

With Governance, assets are no longer isolated technical objects in the asset repository. They become part of a structured business model where you can map relationships, ownership, and dependencies of business contexts, such as:

• IT Services
• Applications
• Vendors and suppliers
• Locations and organizational units
• Customers
• Policies and compliance frameworks

… or any custom entity relevant to your governance model

This flexibility allows you to move from a purely technical asset inventory to a repository that also reflects operational and strategic reality.

Why This Matters

Modern IT environments are interconnected and subject to increasing compliance and audit requirements. Governance helps you:

• Clarify ownership and accountability for many different roles in the organization.
• Understand how infrastructure supports applications and services.
• Link vendor contracts and IT services to the assets they cover.
• Tie policies and regulatory requirements directly to relevant systems.
• Create structured, audit-ready documentation.

Instead of maintaining context in spreadsheets or separate documentation systems, you define it directly where the asset data already lives.

Same Data. Broader Perspective.

Your discovery and asset data remain unchanged. What changes is how you can structure and use it. If you are already using IT Services, you now have expanded capabilities available under Governance. If not, this is the opportunity to start structuring your assets around the business contexts that matter most to you.

If you have been using IT services (Service Mapping) before, IT Services have automatically been migrated to “Governance”. The biggest change is that the Layouts you’ve created are now called Types and are visible in the navigation bar. Under Governance > Settings > Types, admins can choose to hide the types you don’t want to use in your governance structure. In the following support article, you can read more about hiding entity types.

Get started

Check out vScope’s Support page to learn more about Governance. If you haven’t tried it yet, we would love to give you a demo and show how your organization would benefit from adding business contexts to your asset repository.

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• About Governance