What information is available to the Project Manager

The Project Manager user profile bundles the functionality you need as a data steward to add applications to the repository and capture the basic information about them. Click Home in the left navigation panel to use the following views:

• Projects by Status: The pie chart displays the number of projects according to their status from initiation to execution. Double-click a pie slice to view a data workbench showing all projects with that status. Use the features of the data workbench to slice-and-dice your data to focus on data and do the analyses you are interested in.. The following statuses may be displayed:
  • New: The project has only mandatory data defined. A project with this status can be deleted.
  • In Design: The project is being scoped and defined. A project with this status cannot be deleted.
  • Under Assessment: The project is being evaluated for implementation. A project with this status cannot be deleted.
  • In Realization: The project is being worked on. A project with this status cannot be deleted.
  • Completed: The project has finished. A project with this status can be deleted.
  • Rejected: The project is no longer valid and can be deleted.
• Project Data Completeness: The bar chart displays the quality of the data of the projects in the repository. Double-click the Issues bar to open a view listing existing data quality issues. Click the link in the Resolution column to navigate to the view where the issue can be immediately corrected.
• My Projects: View projects that you have access permissions to and add new projects via the   plus sign button and add new projects to the repository.

The left navigation panel displays the following:

• Recent Assets: Access the data that you have most recently touched.
• Workflows: Access to workflow activities that you are responsible for.
• Data Quality: Click to access My Data Quality Issues to understand the data quality issues for the assets that you have responsibility for. Click Data Collection Initiative to collect portfolio data.
• Favorites: Access your favorite data and views.
• Project: This is the same project data workbench that is available in the Home area where you can capture project data.
• Business Architecture: View the reference data for View reference data including business capabilities , business processes , locations , organizations , and vendors.

  business capability

  A business capability is a high-level description of what is done in a company to meet its business objectives. Market development, product development, and support and services are examples of business capabilities.

  business process

  A business process is an activity or set of activities that represent work required to accomplish a specific organizational objective. Marketing services, selling products, delivering services, distributing products, invoicing for services, and accounting for money received are examples of business processes.

  location

  A location is a geographic place that could be a country, city, building, or room, for example.

  organization

  An organization is a business-driven governance structure such as an administrative or functional unit in the company.

  vendor

  A vendor is a supplier of components.

• Application Architecture: View reference data including applications , peripherals, and application groups.

  application

  An application is a complete installation of a software offering a functionality to an end user. The application might consist of or require other technical components to run.

  application group

  An application group bundles a set of applications for an analytical purpose. For example, an application group may be a portfolio of CRM applications to be analyzed. An application may be assigned to multiple application groups and can therefore be analyzed from many different perspectives.

• Technology Architecture: View reference data including IT capabilities , components, component groups, and component categories.

  IT capability

  An IT capability bundles and structures content-specific components necessary for the IT infrastructure of data center operations. Mainframe operations, database management, and backup and recovery procedures are examples of IT capabilities.

  component

  A standard component is a reusable block of functionality that provides technical functionality to an application or to the platforms that an application runs on. Components do not usually provide functionality to end users. Typical components are operating systems, database management systems, or application servers. A component that is used in an application's platform is a local component and is not is reusable.

• Investment Architecture: Create projects and project groups.