How to design diagrams

In Alfabet FastLane, you can visualize your IT landscapes by means of diagrams. Some diagrams such as the Information Flows Diagram page view in Alfabet FastLane are automatically generated and always display an up-to-date diagram. Dynamically-generated diagrams cannot be manually designed or edited.

But diagrams can be made to design the IT architecture for assets in the Business Architecture, Application Architecture, and Technology Architecture. For example, you could design a diagram for a particular application groups showing their applications, which business data is transferred via information flows to and from other applications as well as visualize which components are used by the applications.

The following is possible in the context of the Alfabet Diagram Designer:

• Show existing relationships to other objects. For example, display the applications supporting a business process.
• Create new relationships for the selected object. For example, create a new application supporting a selected business process.
• Edit the selected object or any other object displayed in the diagram. For example, change the application's start/end dates or define its information flows.
• Delete an object from the diagram or delete it irrevocably from the database.
• Add shapes and other shapes (such as a legend, text, arrows, color, etc.) in order to provide additional information in the diagram.