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New object inspection views offer a streamlined, user-friendly preview that highlights key object details and enables instant, in-place editing. Users can single-click the button for a referenced object in a data workbench, content area, guided data view, Gantt chart, portfolio report, diagram, and diagram-style reports to open the preview panel to view and edit the object. While the implementation of previews is still in progress, they are already available for most classes.

Important: This feature introduces a new click interaction. The single-click interaction is explicitly implemented to open the preview. Consequently, navigation to an object now requires a double-click to open, replacing the previous single-click behavior.

Runtime editors have been introduced this release as an alternative to traditional standard and custom editors. Runtime editors are dynamically generated at runtime when the user opens the editor. They provide more consistency in the look-and-feel of editors providing a uniform layout that places editor fields in a configured sequence. This approach also ensures that tooltips are standardized across the product for editors and content areas. While the implementation of runtime editors is still in progress, they are already available for most classes.

The business question Where are our applications used? is available in the Business Relationship section of the navigation panel. A nested matrix shows the use of applications by organizations in the company. The number of applications used by organizations is aggregated to the top two levels in the organization hierarchy. The business question helps you find outliers in IT usage from an organizational perspective. Focus on organizations with high usage and identify potential opportunities for optimization. Review where technology is underutilized and promote suitable IT support to close gaps in efficiency and innovation.

The license package IT Transformation Server - Enterprise is required to work with this business question. The use case Application Portfolio Governance must be activated.

The business question What is our strategic progress? is available in the Transformation section of the navigation panel. The nested matrix provides an overview of the company's strategic goals and the progress of their strategic themes. Review the performance measures of the strategic themes based on their rating and gap trends and understand the RAG status of the projects impacted by the strategic theme. This visualization provides a trend analysis of your strategic progress and helps you to focus on the relevant projects that will realize your company's objectives.

The license package Strategic Portfolio Management is required to work with this business question. The use case Strategy Validation must be activated.

The business question Where can we expect resource constraints? is available in the Transformation section of the navigation panel. It provides visibility about the projects requesting resources from organizations over time so that you can recognize when projects are at risk due to potential resource shortfalls. The business question showcases a pivot table with organizations and subordinate organizations requested to provide resources for projects on the Y-axis. The X-axis displays quarterly intervals, showing both resource requests and the number of projects requesting them. Resource requests are highlighted red if they exceed a threshold of resource requests per organization per quarter. This business question sheds highlights potential bottlenecks in resource distribution in projects and helps you to find ways to reallocate resource requests among organizations or over time to reduce risk to project delivery.

The license package Strategic Portfolio Management is required to work with this business question. The use case Resource Management must be activated.

The introduction of calculated properties in Alfabet 11.9.0 adds greater flexibility for evaluations and prioritization schemes. This feature also improves usability by automatically computing values for objects at runtime, eliminating the need for manual recalculation.

Calculated properties are now available in the Alfabet FastLane and Enterprise solution configurations, allowing for more dynamic data analysis and flexible filtering. The indicators Business Score, Technical Score, Cloud Readiness, and Cloud Relevance have been redesigned to leverage this new feature, making it easier to interpret and sort data in Application data workbenches. Additionally, the ordering of value ranges in portfolio matrix reports has been improved for greater clarity and precision in the business questions What are our investment/retirement candidates?, What are our cloud focus areas?, and the TIME Portfolio Analysis view available in the business capability content area.

A new Deployment Structure Network view is a more robust and insightful alternative to the standard Deployment Structure view. The new report leverages a dynamic network diagram to visualize an application's deployment details, including the business capabilities it supports, as well as the servers and geographic locations where it is hosted. The diagram offers flexible layout options, enabling users to reposition elements and enrich the visualization with custom text, shapes, and coloring as needed. The new Deployment Structure Network view is displayed by default in the solution, but the Deployment Structure view remains in the content repository and can be returned to the application content area if needed.

The license package IT Transformation Server - FastLane or IT Transformation Server - Enterprise is required to work with this report. Either the use case Device Management or Deployment Management must be activated.

Alfabet provides analytics dashboards that are based on the embedded third-party tool DevExpress® Dashboard. Analytics dashboards empower end users with dynamic, data-rich visualizations.

A new Analytics Dashboard node is available in the Configuration section of the navigation panel. The Configure Providers view allows an administrative user to specify the data providers that determine which configured reports or database views shall be used to fetch the data that will be displayed in the analytics dashboard. They can then create a dashboard in the Configure Dashboards view, specifying which data provider to use as well as the users, user groups, and user profiles that shall have access to the dashboard. The administrative user can use the full-range of visualization possibilities available in the DevExpress Dashboard Designer to design the analytics dashboards for the user community. The completed analytic dashboard should be shared by the administrative user with the relevant users, user groups, and user profiles.

Users can add the dashboard pages shared with them to class-independent content areas like Home via the new Add New Dashboard Page in the 3-dots menu. The page will show one analytic dashboard and users will have read-only access to the analytics dashboard. Note that analytic dashboards should not be added to class-dependent content areas (like the Application content area) since this may not be supported in the future.

ServiceNow® interoperability provides additional value if your company uses ServiceNow® to manage IT Assets, Services and Operations and Alfabet to manage the enterprise architecture and plan IT transformation.

Strategic planning in Alfabet is enhanced when based on data available in ServiceNow, and the results of strategic planning provide input for the operational planning of the IT infrastructure in ServiceNow.

Alfabet FastLane and Enterprise solutions provide a preconfigured interface with ServiceNow. In Alfabet FastLane, the interface offers import capabilities for elements in ServiceNow CI tables and mapping to Alfabet Applications, Components, Locations, and Devices.

Alfabet enterprise customers can benefit from a roundtrip of data compatible with the CSDM 5 data model. Applications created and approved in Alfabet can be exported to Business Applications in ServiceNow for deployment. After deployment is done, the resulting Application Services can then be re-imported to Deployments in Alfabet as input to application versioning and roadmapping, which is then also the basis for IT asset management and incident management in ServiceNow. The mapping of the object data includes generation of links for easy navigation from Alfabet objects to the corresponding ServiceNow elements.