Universal Traceability Strategy

This disclosure provides a system for designing a system in support of one or more business processes including a database, an interface, and a requirements platform. The database may include data associated with a plurality of operational systems for information handling systems that have been deployed. The interface may be configured to receive a request for a system design. The requirements platform may be configured to query the database for information about historical use of information handling systems in support of various business processes, to determine a set of metrics for analyzing a plurality of historical system designs, to apply the set of metrics to the data in the database to identify one or more potential related reports, to analyze the request to determine an appropriate format for the report, and to generate the report.