1. In a computer architecture, a method for making a business related decision based on how a specified portion of enterprise resource planning data maps to an organization's business capabilities, the method comprising an act of accessing a schema-based model for the organization, the schema-based model modeling a plurality of interrelated business capabilities for the organization at a specified level of detail, each business capability representing a portion of what work the organization does; an act of accessing a schema-based representation of a portion of enterprise resource planning data for the organization, the portion of enterprise resource planning data formatted in a format for purposes of report generation; an act of identifying an express schema-based link between the portion of enterprise resource planning data and each of the plurality of interrelated business capabilities, each schema based-link linking the portion of enterprise resource data to a corresponding business capability, each schema-based link including property values indicative of a corresponding business capability's contribution to the portion of enterprise resource planning data; an act of utilizing the property values to identify what business capabilities specifically contribute to the portion of enterprise resource data; and an act of making a business related decision with respect to the specified portion of enterprise resource planning data based on the identified business capabilities and the property values.