Best practice for maintaining multiple locations for IT Components

Hello SAP Community,

I have a question regarding how to maintain location information for IT Components.

Some of our IT Components are used or hosted in multiple locations, for example data centers, cloud environments, or office locations. It would be very useful to visualize these locations on a map and also use them in reports. As you know, there is a limitation on the Location field, which can be used for only one location.

I am considering a few possible options, but I am not sure which one is the best practice:

1. Use the Organization field
   This field is currently hidden for IT Components, and my understanding is that its purpose is to show which organization uses the applications. I am not sure if it is appropriate to use this field for location information, as it may mix location data with application usage.
2. Add a free-text field under Location
   I could create a text field for locations, but I am concerned that this would be difficult to use consistently in reports and dashboards.
3. Use Platforms
   Another option could be to create data center or cloud names under Platforms, for example “London DC”, “Azure”, “AWS”, etc. However, I am not sure if this is the right use of the Platform concept.
4. Create separate IT Components per location
   For example: “X Firewall London Office”, “X Firewall Azure”, “X Firewall AWS”, etc. This could work, but it would take a lot of time and may be difficult to maintain.

I would be very interested to hear your experiences or recommendations.

What is the best way to model IT Components that are related to multiple locations, especially if we want to use this information for maps and reporting?

Thank you in advance for your input.