This document provides an overview of business architecture and blueprinting. It discusses how blueprinting can be used to model business capabilities in order to analyze opportunities for optimization and efficiency. Blueprinting groups activities into discrete capabilities and provides multiple views of the enterprise. This exposes where strategies may be competing or complimentary. The document also provides an example of how blueprinting can be overlaid with an application portfolio to identify gaps, duplications, deficiencies, and opportunities to implement new technologies.